1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 99587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 103587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1041aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1051aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1061aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 107534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1081aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1095cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1102d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1115cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 112eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 113eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 114eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 11551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 11651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 11751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 118f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1195106c650SJan Hendrik Farr bool 120f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 121f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 122f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 1235106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190103 1245106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # supported since gcc 15.1.0 1255106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896 1265106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 150100 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 128b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 129b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 130b688f369SKees Cook 131e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 132e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 133e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 134e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 135e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 13647cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 13747cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 13847cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 13936174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 14036174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 14136174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1427129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1437129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1447129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 1450aa2b78cSBoqun Fengconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_WITH_NUL 1460aa2b78cSBoqun Feng def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108900 1470aa2b78cSBoqun Feng 148613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 149613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 150613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 151613fe169SNathan Chancellor 152b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 153b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 154b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 155e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 156fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 157e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15810916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1591dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1601dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 161c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 162c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 163c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 164c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 165c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 166c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 167c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 168c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 169c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 170c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 171ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 183dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 184dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 18734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1894bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 191ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1954bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1964bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1974bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1984bb16672SJiri Slaby 1994bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 2004bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 2014bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2024bb16672SJiri Slaby 2033fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 205b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2063fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2073fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 209e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 210e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 211e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2123fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 213e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 214e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2153fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2163fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2173fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2183fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2193fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 220d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 222fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 223d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 224d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 225d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 226d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 227d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 228d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 229d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 240aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 241aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 242aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 243ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 244aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 245aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 248aaebf433SRyan Anderson 249aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 251aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 253aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2540f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 260aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2619afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2629afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2639afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2649afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2659afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2669afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2679afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2689afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2699afb719eSLaura Abbott 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2793ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2803ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2813ebe1243SLasse Collin 2827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell 291f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 292f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 293f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 32230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3280a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 33230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 33630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3370a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3390a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 34030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3413ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3423ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3473ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3483ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3497472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3507472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3517472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3523ebe1243SLasse Collin 3533ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3543ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3553ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3563ebe1243SLasse Collin 3577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 362681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 369e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 370e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 371e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 372e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 373e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 374e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 375e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 376e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 37748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 37948f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 38048f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 38148f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 38248f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 38348f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 38448f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 38548f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 38648f7ddf7SNick Terrell 387f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 388f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 389f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 390f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 391f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 392f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 393f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 394f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 395f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 396f16466afSVasily Gorbik 39730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 399ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 400ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 401ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 402ada4ab7aSChris Down help 403ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 404ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 405ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 406ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 407ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 408ada4ab7aSChris Down 409bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 410bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 411bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 412bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 413bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 414bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 415bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 416bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 417bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 420a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 433a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 434a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 435a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 436a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 437a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 438a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4390cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4400cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4410cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4420cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 44519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 446a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 451b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 459bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 460bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 461bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 462bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 463bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 464bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 465c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 466c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 467c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 468c73be61cSDavid Howells help 469c73be61cSDavid Howells 470c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 471c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 472c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 473c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 474c73be61cSDavid Howells 475c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 476c73be61cSDavid Howells 477226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 479226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 480226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 481226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 482226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 483226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 484a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 485226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 486226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 4871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 489804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 493cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 494cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4967a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4977a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4987a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 500cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5017a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 50228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50374c3cbe3SAl Viro 504d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 505764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 506b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 50787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 508d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51602382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 518fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 521c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 531c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 542abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 543abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54424a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 545554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 546041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 547abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 54824a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 549abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 559abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 561b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 562b58c3584SRik van Riel 563fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 564fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 565b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 567fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 568fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 571fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 572fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 573fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57411d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57511d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 57711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 57811d4afd4SVincent Guittot 579d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 58098eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 581fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 582fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58498eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58598eb401dSValentin Schneider help 586d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 587d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 589d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 590d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider 59298eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59398eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59498eb401dSValentin Schneider 59598eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 596d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 59776504793SThara Gopinath 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6002813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6193903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6272813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 63919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 641f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 65119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 66019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 668eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 669eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 67098dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 673eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 677eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 678eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 679eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6802ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6812ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6822ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6832ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 684c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 685eb414681SJohannes Weiner 686eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner 688e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 689e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 690e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 691e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 692e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 694428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 695428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 696e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6977b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6987b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7077b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 708391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 709391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7105c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7115c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 71297577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7132c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7145c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7155c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7165c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7182c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7192c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7215c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7220af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 723c903ff83SMike Travis 7241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 725f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 726a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 739a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 743f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 744f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 745f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 748f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 749f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 750f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 75143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 752794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 753794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7541c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 755f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 756361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 757794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 765f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 767f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 769794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 770794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7732240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 776320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 777361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7900f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7965e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7975e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80733701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 80833701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 80933701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 81033701557SChris Down help 81133701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 81233701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81333701557SChris Down 81433701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81533701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81633701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81733701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 81833701557SChris Down 81933701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 82033701557SChris Down 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 881*25c411fcSJohn Stultzconfig SCHED_PROXY_EXEC 882*25c411fcSJohn Stultz bool "Proxy Execution" 883*25c411fcSJohn Stultz # Avoid some build failures w/ PREEMPT_RT until it can be fixed 884*25c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !PREEMPT_RT 885*25c411fcSJohn Stultz # Need to investigate how to inform sched_ext of split contexts 886*25c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT 887*25c411fcSJohn Stultz # Not particularly useful until we get to multi-rq proxying 888*25c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on EXPERT 889*25c411fcSJohn Stultz help 890*25c411fcSJohn Stultz This option enables proxy execution, a mechanism for mutex-owning 891*25c411fcSJohn Stultz tasks to inherit the scheduling context of higher priority waiters. 892*25c411fcSJohn Stultz 89369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 89469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 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 912c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9133a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 914c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 915dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 916dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 917158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 918dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 919dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9203e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9210da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9223e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9235a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9245a41237aSLinus Torvalds 925f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 926f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9278e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 928f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 92902153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 93002153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 931a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 932a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 933a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 934a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 93502153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 936a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 937a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 938a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 939a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 940a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 94172b252aeSMel Gorman# 942be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 943be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 944be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 945be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 946be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 953be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 955be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 956be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 957554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 958be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 959be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 960be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9616d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 962be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 963be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 964be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9656f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9666f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9676f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9686f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9696f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9706f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9716f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9726f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 97321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 97421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 97521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 97623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9776341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9782bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 979ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 98023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 984d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 985da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 98645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 987ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 988ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 989ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 99023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 99123964d2dSLi Zefan 9923e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9933e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9943e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9956a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9966a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9976a010a49STejun Heo help 9986a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9996a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 10006a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 10016a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 10026a010a49STejun Heo 10036a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10046a010a49STejun Heo 1005c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1006a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 100879bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 100921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 101000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1011a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 101200f0b825SBalbir Singh 101325352d2fSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE 101425352d2fSShakeel Butt bool 101525352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 101625352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 101725352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 101825352d2fSShakeel Butt default y 101925352d2fSShakeel Butt 1020940b01fcSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC 1021940b01fcSShakeel Butt bool 1022940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 1023940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 1024940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1025940b01fcSShakeel Butt default y 1026940b01fcSShakeel Butt 1027e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1028e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1029c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1030e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1031e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1032e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1033e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1034e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1035e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1036e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1037e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1038e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1039e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1040e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1041e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1042fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 104384c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1048a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1057e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10617baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1064da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1070e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10717c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1072a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10737c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10747c941438SDhaval Giani help 10757c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10767c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10777c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10787c941438SDhaval Giani 10797c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1080e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1081e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1082e179e80cSTejun Heo 10837c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10847c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10857c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1086e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10877c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10887c941438SDhaval Giani 1089ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1090ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1091ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1092ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1093ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1094ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1095ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1096ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1097ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1098d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1099ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11007c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11017c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11027c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11037c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11047c941438SDhaval Giani help 11057c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 110632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11077c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11087c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1109d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 11107c941438SDhaval Giani 1111e34e0131SMichal Koutnýconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED 1112e34e0131SMichal Koutný bool "Require boot parameter to enable group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1113e34e0131SMichal Koutný depends on RT_GROUP_SCHED 1114e34e0131SMichal Koutný default n 1115e34e0131SMichal Koutný help 1116e34e0131SMichal Koutný When set, the RT group scheduling is disabled by default. The option 1117e34e0131SMichal Koutný is in inverted form so that mere RT_GROUP_SCHED enables the group 1118e34e0131SMichal Koutný scheduling. 1119e34e0131SMichal Koutný 1120e34e0131SMichal Koutný Say N if unsure. 1121e34e0131SMichal Koutný 112281951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 112381951366STejun Heo bool 112481951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 112581951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 112681951366STejun Heo default y 112781951366STejun Heo 11287c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11297c941438SDhaval Giani 1130af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1131af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1132af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1133af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11342480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11352480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11362480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11372480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11382480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11392480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11402480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11412480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11422480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11432480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11442480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11452480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11462480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11472480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11482480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11492480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11502480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11512480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11522480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11532480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11542480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11552480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11656cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 116898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 117239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 117339d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 117439d3e758SParav Pandit help 117539d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 117639d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 117739d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 117839d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 117939d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 118039d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 118139d3e758SParav Pandit 1182b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1183b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1184e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1185b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1186b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1187b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1188b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1189b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1190b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1191b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1198489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1199489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1200489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1201489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1202489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 12046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 12056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 12066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1207afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 12086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 12106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 12136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 12156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1218afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1221e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1222bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1228afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1230afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12311abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12321abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12331abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12341abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12351abab1baSChen Ridong help 12361abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12371abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1238dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1239dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12401abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12411abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12421abab1baSChen Ridong 12431abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12441abab1baSChen Ridong 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1247dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 124889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 124989e9b9e0STejun Heo 12506bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12686546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12696546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 127330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 127430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1275483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1276483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 127730070984SDaniel Mack help 127830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 127930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 128030070984SDaniel Mack 128130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 128230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 128330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 128430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 128530070984SDaniel Mack 1286a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1287a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1288a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1289a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1290a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1291a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1292a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1293a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1294a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1295a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1296a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1297a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1298a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1299a72232eaSVipin Sharma 13006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 130123b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 13026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 130323b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 13046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 13056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 130623b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 130723b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 130823b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 13096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 13106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 13116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 131273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 131373b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 131473b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 131573b35147SArnd Bergmann 131623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1317c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 13188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 13196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 13202813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 13216a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1322c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1323c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1324c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1325c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1326c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1327c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 133058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 133158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 133217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 133358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 133458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 133558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 133658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1337769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1338769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1339660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1340769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1341769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1342769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1343769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1344769071acSAndrei Vagin 1345ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1346ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 134817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1349ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1350ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1351614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1352ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1353aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 135419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13555673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1356aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1357aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1358aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1359e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1360e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1361d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1362d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1363d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1364e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1365aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1366aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 136774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13689bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 136917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 137074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 137112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1372692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 137374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 137474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1375d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1376d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 137817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1379d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1380d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1381d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1382d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13838dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13855cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13865cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 138730341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13885cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1389bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13905cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13915cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13925cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13935cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13945cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13955cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13965cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13975cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13985cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13995091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 14005091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 14015091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 14025091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 14035091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 14045091faa4SMike Galbraith help 14055091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 14065091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 14075091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 14085091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 14095091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 14105091faa4SMike Galbraith 14117af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 14127af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 141326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14147af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 14157af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 14167af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 14177af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 14187af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 14197af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 14207af37becSDaniel Lezcano 14217af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 14227af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1423f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1424f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1425f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1426f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1427f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1428f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1429f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14308c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1431f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1432f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1433f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1434f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1435f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1436f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1437f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1438c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1439c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1440dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1441dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1442c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1443c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 144476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 144576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 144776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 144876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 144976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14500947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 145185c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14520947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 145376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 145476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 145576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1456b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1457b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1458b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14596ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1460b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1461b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1462b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1463b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1464b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1465b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1466b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1467b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1468b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1469a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1470a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1471a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1472a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1473a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1474a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1475a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1476a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1477a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1478a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1479a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1480a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1481a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1482a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1483a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1484a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1485a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1486a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1487a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14881274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14891274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14901274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14911274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14921274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14931274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14941274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14951274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14961274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14971274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 149883c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 149983c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 150083c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 150183c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 150283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 150383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 150483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1505877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1506877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 15072cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1508877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1509877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 151015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1511877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1512877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1513877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1514877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1515877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1516c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 151715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1518c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1519ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1520ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1521c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1522877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1523877417e6SArnd Bergmann 15245d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15345d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1538e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1539e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15418b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15428b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15438b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 155259612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 155359612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 155459612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 155559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1556e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1557e1789d7cSXin Li 1558e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1559e1789d7cSXin Li string 1560e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1561e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1562e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 156359612b24SNathan Chancellor 15640847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15650847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15660847062aSRandy Dunlap 1567657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1568657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1569657a5209SMike Frysinger 1570657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1571657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1572657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1573657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1574657a5209SMike Frysinger 1575657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1576657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1577657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1578657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1579657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1580657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1581657a5209SMike Frysinger 1582657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1583657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1584657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1585657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1586657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1587657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1588657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1589657a5209SMike Frysinger 1590c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1591c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1592c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1593c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1594c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1595c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1596c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1597c443279aSChristian Brauner 1598c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1599c443279aSChristian Brauner 1600657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1601657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1602657a5209SMike Frysinger 16036a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 16046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1605f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1606f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1613ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 16146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 16152813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1616ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1617ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1618ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1619ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16202813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 16212813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 16222813893fSIulia Manda default y 16232813893fSIulia Manda help 16242813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 16252813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16262813893fSIulia Manda 16272813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16282813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16292813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16302813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16312813893fSIulia Manda 16322813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16332813893fSIulia Manda 1634f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1635f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1636cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1637a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1638f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1639f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1640f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1641f6187769SFabian Frederick 1642f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1643f6187769SFabian Frederick 1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1657baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1658baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1659baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1660baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1661baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1662baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1663baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1664baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1665baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1666baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1667baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1668baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1669baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1670baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1671baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1672baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1673baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1674d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1675d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 167774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1678d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1679d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1680d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1681d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1682d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1683d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1684d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1685c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1687c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1688c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1689c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1690c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1691c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1692c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1693c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1694c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1695708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1696046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1697708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1699708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1700708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1701708e9a79SMatt Mackall 17028761f1abSRalf Baechle 1703e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 17046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 17058761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 170615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1707e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1708e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1709e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1710e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1711e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 171227021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 171327021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 171527021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 17206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 17213f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1723bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1729bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1730bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1731bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1732bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1733bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 17349a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# 17359a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# marked broken for performance reasons; gives us one more cycle to sort things out. 17369a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# 173780367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 173880367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior bool 173980367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on FUTEX && !BASE_SMALL && MMU 17409a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on BROKEN 174180367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y 174280367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 1743c042c505SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUTEX_MPOL 1744c042c505SPeter Zijlstra bool 1745c042c505SPeter Zijlstra depends on FUTEX && NUMA 1746c042c505SPeter Zijlstra default y 1747c042c505SPeter Zijlstra 17481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1755fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1757fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1758fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1759fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1760fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1761fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1762fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1763fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1764b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1766b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1767b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1768b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1769b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1770b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1771b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1772b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1773e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1775e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1776e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1777e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1778e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1779e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1780e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1781e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1793ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1795ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1796ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1797ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1798ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1799ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1800ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 18012b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 18022b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1803561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 18042b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 18052b188cc1SJens Axboe help 18062b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 18072b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 18082b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 18092b188cc1SJens Axboe 18101802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 18111802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 18121802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 18131802656eSJens Axboe help 18141802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 18151802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 18161802656eSJens Axboe 18171802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 18181802656eSJens Axboe 18191802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 18201802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 18211802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 18221802656eSJens Axboe 1823d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1824d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1825d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1826d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1827d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1828d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1829d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1830d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1831d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1832d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 18335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 18345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 18355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 18365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 18375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 18385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 18395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1845a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1846a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1847a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1848a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1849a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1850a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1851a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1852a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1853a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1854a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1855a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1856a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1857a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1858a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1859a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1860a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1861a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1862a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1863a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1864a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1865a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1866a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1867a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1868a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1869a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1870a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1871a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1872a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1873a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1874a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1875a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1876a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1877a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1878a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1879a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1880a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1881a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1882a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1883a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1884a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1885a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1886a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1887a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1888a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1889a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1890a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1891a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1892a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1893a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1894a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1895d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1896d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1897d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1898d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1899d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1900d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1901d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1902d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 190330f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 190430f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 190530f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 190630f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 190730f3bb09SZhen Lei help 190830f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 190930f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 191030f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 191130f3bb09SZhen Lei 191230f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 191330f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 191430f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 191530f3bb09SZhen Lei 1916d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1917d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1918d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1919d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1920d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1921d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1922bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1923bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1924bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1925bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1926d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1927d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1928d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1929d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1930d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1931d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1932bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1933d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1934d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1935d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 19363ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 19373ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 19383ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 193970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 194070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 194170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19425796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19435796d396SJeff Xu bool 19445796d396SJeff Xu help 19455796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19465796d396SJeff Xu 19475796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19485796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19495796d396SJeff Xu 19505796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19515796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19525796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19535796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19545796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19555796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19565796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19575796d396SJeff Xu 19585796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19595796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19605796d396SJeff Xu 19615796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19625796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19635796d396SJeff Xu 1964cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19650793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1966018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1967018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19680793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19692aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19702aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19712aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19722aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1973906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1974906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1975906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1976906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1977906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 197857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1980cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 198157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1982392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1983cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1984e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19850793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 198657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 198757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19880793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1989dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 199057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 199157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 199257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 199357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19940793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19950793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19960793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19970793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19980793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 200057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 2001dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 200257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 20030793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 20040793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 20050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20060793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 20070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2008906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2009906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 2010906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 2011cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 2012906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2013906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2014906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 2015906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2016906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 2017906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 2018906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2019906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 2020906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 20210793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 20220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2023091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2024091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2025091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2026091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2027091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2028d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2029091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2030091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2031091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2032091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2033091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2034091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 203582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2036091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2037091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2038091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2039091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 204082c04ff8SPeter Foley 2041125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2042b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2043125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2044125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2045f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2046125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20472f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20482f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20492f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20502f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2051ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2052ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2053f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20542f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20555daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20568b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2057ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2058af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2059f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 206093e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20622f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20632f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20692f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20742f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20762f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20775134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20785134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20795134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20812f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20822f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20832f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20849e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2085c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2086c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2087c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2088c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2089aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20915f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20925f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20935f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20945f87f112SIngo Molnar# 209597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20965f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2097a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 209897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 209989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 210089cde455SEric DeVolder 21011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 21021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21031572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 21041572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2105ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 21066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21071c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2108ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2109c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2110c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2111c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2112c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 211373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 21146c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 211598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 211698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 211798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21185f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21195f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 212098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 212198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2122692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 212398a79d6aSRusty Russell 21243a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2125e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2126e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2127e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2128e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 212916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 213016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 213116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 213216295becSSteffen Klassert 21334520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21344520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21354520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21364520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21374520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21384520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21394520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21404520c6a4SDavid Howells 21416beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2142e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21430ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21440ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21450ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21464ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21474ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21484ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2149e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2150e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21511bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21521bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21537303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21591bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21601bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2161