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 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark 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) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre 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) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 129f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 132b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 133b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 134b688f369SKees Cook 135e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 136e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 137e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 138e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 139e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 14047cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 14147cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 14247cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 143*36174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 144*36174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 145*36174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1467129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1477129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1487129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 149613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 150613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 151613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 152613fe169SNathan Chancellor 153b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 154b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 155b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 156e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 157fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 158e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1601dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1611dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 162c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 163c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 164c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 165c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 166c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 167c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 168c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 169c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 170c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 171c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 172ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 184dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 185dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 18834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1904bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 192ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1954bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1964bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1974bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1984bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1994bb16672SJiri Slaby 2004bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 2014bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 2024bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2034bb16672SJiri Slaby 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2053fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 206b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2073fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2083fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 210e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 211e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 212e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2133fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 214e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 215e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2163fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2173fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2183fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2193fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2203fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 222d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 223fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 224d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 225d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 226d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 227d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 228d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 229d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 230d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 241aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 242aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 243aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 244ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 245aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 246aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 249aaebf433SRyan Anderson 250aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 252aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 254aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2550f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 261aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2629afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2639afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2649afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2659afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2669afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2679afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2689afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2699afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2709afb719eSLaura Abbott 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2803ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2813ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2823ebe1243SLasse Collin 2837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 29148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 292f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 293f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 294f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 29848f7ddf7SNick 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 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 31830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3290a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 33530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 33730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3390a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3400a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 34130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3423ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3473ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3483ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3493ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3507472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3517472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3527472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3533ebe1243SLasse Collin 3543ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3553ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3563ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3573ebe1243SLasse Collin 3587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 363681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 369e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 370e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 371e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 372e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 373e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 374e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 375e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 376e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 377e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 38048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 38148f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 38248f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 38348f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 38448f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 38548f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 38648f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 38748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 388f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 389f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 390f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 391f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 392f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 393f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 394f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 395f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 396f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 397f16466afSVasily Gorbik 39830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 400ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 401ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 402ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 403ada4ab7aSChris Down help 404ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 405ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 406ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 407ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 408ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 409ada4ab7aSChris Down 410bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 411bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 412bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 413bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 414bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 415bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 416bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 417bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 418bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 421a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 434a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 435a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 436a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 437a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 438a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 439a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4400cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4410cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4420cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4430cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 44619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 447a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 452b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 460bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 461bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 462bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 463bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 464bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 465bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 466c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 467c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 468c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 469c73be61cSDavid Howells help 470c73be61cSDavid Howells 471c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 472c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 473c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 474c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 475c73be61cSDavid Howells 476c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 477c73be61cSDavid Howells 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 479226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 480226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 481226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 482226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 483226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 484226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 485a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 486226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 487226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 48869369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4897374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4907374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 49169369a70SJosh Triplett help 49269369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 49369369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 49469369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 49569369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 49669369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 49769369a70SJosh Triplett 4981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 500804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 504cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 505cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5077a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5087a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5097a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 511cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5127a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 51328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 51474c3cbe3SAl Viro 515d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 516764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 517b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 51887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 519d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 524abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 52702382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 532c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 537fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 538fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 542c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 543abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 55524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 556554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 557041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 55924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 561abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 562abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 563abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 564abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 565abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 566abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 567abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 568abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 569abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 570abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 571abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 572b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 573b58c3584SRik van Riel 574fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 575fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 576b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 577fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 578fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 579fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 580fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 581fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 582fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 583fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 584fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 58511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 58611d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 58711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 58811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 58911d4afd4SVincent Guittot 590d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 592fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 593fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 59476504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 59598eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 59698eb401dSValentin Schneider help 597d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 598d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 59998eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 600d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 601d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 60298eb401dSValentin Schneider 60398eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 60498eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 60598eb401dSValentin Schneider 60698eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 607d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 60876504793SThara Gopinath 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6112813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6303903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 63619c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6382813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 65019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 652f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 66219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 67119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 672391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 674391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 675391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 676391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 677391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 678391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 679eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 680eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 68198dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 682eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 683eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 684eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 685eb414681SJohannes Weiner 686eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 688eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 689eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 690eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6912ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6922ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6932ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6942ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 695c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 696eb414681SJohannes Weiner 697eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 698eb414681SJohannes Weiner 699e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 700e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 701e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 702e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 703e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 704e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 705428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 706428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 707e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7087b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7097b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7107b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7117b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7127b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7137b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7147b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7157b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7167b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7177b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7187b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 719391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 720391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7215c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7225c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 72397577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7242c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7255c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7265c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7275c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7282c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7292c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7302c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7312c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7325c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7330af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 734c903ff83SMike Travis 7351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 736f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 737a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 750a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 754f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 755f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 756f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 75743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 758f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 759f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 760f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 761f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 76243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 763794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 764794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7651c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 767361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 774f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 775f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 776f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 777f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 778f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 779794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 780794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 781794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7842240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 787320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 788361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 8010f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8075e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8085e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 81123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 81223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 81323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 81423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 81523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81833701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 81933701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 82033701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 82133701557SChris Down help 82233701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 82333701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 82433701557SChris Down 82533701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 82633701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 82733701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 82833701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 82933701557SChris Down 83033701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 83133701557SChris Down 8325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 83838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 83938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 84038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 88669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 88769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 88869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 88969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 89169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 89369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 894be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 901be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 90272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 90372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 90472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 90572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 90672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 90772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 90872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 90972b252aeSMel Gorman bool 91072b252aeSMel Gorman 911c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9123a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 913c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 914dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 915dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 916158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 917dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 918dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9193e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9200da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9213e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9225a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9235a41237aSLinus Torvalds 924f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 925f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9268e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 927f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 92802153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 92902153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 930a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 931a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 932a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 933a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 93402153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 935a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 936a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 937a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 938a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 939a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 94072b252aeSMel Gorman# 941be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 942be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 943be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 944be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 945be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 953be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 955be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 956554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 957be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 958be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 959be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9606d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 961be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 962be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 963be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9646f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9656f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9666f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9676f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9686f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9696f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9706f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9716f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 97221c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 97321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 97421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 97523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9766341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9772bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 978ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 97923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 983d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 984da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 98545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 986ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 987ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 988ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 98923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 99023964d2dSLi Zefan 9913e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9923e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9933e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9946a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9956a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9966a010a49STejun Heo help 9976a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9986a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9996a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 10006a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 10016a010a49STejun Heo 10026a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10036a010a49STejun Heo 1004c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1005a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10063e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 100779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 100821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 100900f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1010a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 101100f0b825SBalbir Singh 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1014c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1016e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1017e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1018e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1019e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1020e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1021e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1022e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1023e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1024e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1025e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1026e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1027fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 102884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10322bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1033a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10372bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1042e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10467baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1049da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1055e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10567c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1057a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10587c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10597c941438SDhaval Giani help 10607c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10617c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10627c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10637c941438SDhaval Giani 10647c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1065e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1066e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1067e179e80cSTejun Heo 10687c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10697c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10707c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1071e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10727c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10737c941438SDhaval Giani 1074ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1075ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1076ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1077ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1078ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1079ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1080ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1081ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1082ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1083d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1084ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10857c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10867c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10877c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10887c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10897c941438SDhaval Giani help 10907c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 109132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10927c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10937c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1094d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10957c941438SDhaval Giani 109681951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 109781951366STejun Heo bool 109881951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 109981951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 110081951366STejun Heo default y 110181951366STejun Heo 11027c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11037c941438SDhaval Giani 1104af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1105af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1106af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1107af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11162480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11172480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11182480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11192480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11202480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11212480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11222480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11232480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11242480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11252480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11262480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11272480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11282480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11292480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11396cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 114298076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114639d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 114739d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 114839d3e758SParav Pandit help 114939d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 115039d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 115139d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 115239d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 115339d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 115439d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 115539d3e758SParav Pandit 1156b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1157b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1158e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1159b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1160b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1161b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1162b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1163b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1164b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1165b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1172489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1173489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1174489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1175489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1176489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1181afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1192afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1195e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1196bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1202afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1204afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12051abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12061abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12071abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12081abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12091abab1baSChen Ridong help 12101abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12111abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1212dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1213dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12141abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12151abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12161abab1baSChen Ridong 12171abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12181abab1baSChen Ridong 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1221dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 122289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 122389e9b9e0STejun Heo 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12426546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12436546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 124730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 124830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1249483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1250483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 125130070984SDaniel Mack help 125230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 125330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 125430070984SDaniel Mack 125530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 125630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 125730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 125830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 125930070984SDaniel Mack 1260a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1261a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1262a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1263a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1264a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1265a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1266a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1267a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1268a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1269a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1270a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1271a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1272a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1273a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 127523b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 127723b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 128023b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 128123b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 128223b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 128673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 128773b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 128873b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 128973b35147SArnd Bergmann 129023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1291c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12942813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1296c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1297c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1298c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1299c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1300c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1301c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13028dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 130458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 130558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 130617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 130758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 130858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 130958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 131058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1311769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1312769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1313660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1314769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1315769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1316769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1317769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1318769071acSAndrei Vagin 1319ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1320ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 132217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1323ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1324ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1325614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1326ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1327aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 132819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13295673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1330aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1331aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1332aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1333e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1334e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1335d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1336d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1337d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1338e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1339aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1340aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 134174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13429bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 134317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 134474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 134512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1346692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 134774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 134874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1349d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1350d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 135217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1353d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1354d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1355d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1356d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13595cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13605cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 136130341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13625cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1363bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13645cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13655cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13665cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13675cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13685cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13695cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13705cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13715cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13725cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13735091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13745091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13755091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13765091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13775091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13785091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13795091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13805091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13815091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13825091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13835091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13845091faa4SMike Galbraith 13857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13867af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 138726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13887af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13907af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13917af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13927af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13937af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13957af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1397f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1398f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1399f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1400f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1401f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1402f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1403f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14048c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1405f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1406f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1407f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1408f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1409f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1410f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1411f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1412c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1413c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1414dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1415dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1416c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1417c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 141876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 141976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1420a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 142176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 142276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 142376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14240947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 142585c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14260947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 142776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 142876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 142976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1430b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1431b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1432b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14336ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1434b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1435b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1436b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1437b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1438b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1439b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1440b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1441b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1442b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1443a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1444a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1445a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1447a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1448a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1449a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1450a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1451a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1452a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1453a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1454a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1455a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1456a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1457a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1458a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1459a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1460a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1461a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14621274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14631274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14641274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14651274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14661274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14671274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14681274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14691274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14701274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14711274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 147283c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 147383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 147483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 147583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 147683c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 147783c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 147883c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1479877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1480877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14812cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1482877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1483877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 148415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1485877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1486877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1487877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1488877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1489877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1490c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 149115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1492c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1493ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1494ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1495c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1496877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1497877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14985d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15085d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1512e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1513e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15158b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15168b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15178b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 152659612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 152759612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 152859612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 152959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1530e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1531e1789d7cSXin Li 1532e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1533e1789d7cSXin Li string 1534e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1535e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1536e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 153759612b24SNathan Chancellor 15380847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15390847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15400847062aSRandy Dunlap 1541657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1542657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1543657a5209SMike Frysinger 1544657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1545657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1546657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1547657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1548657a5209SMike Frysinger 1549657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1550657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1551657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1552657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1553657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1555657a5209SMike Frysinger 1556657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1557657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1558657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1559657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1560657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1561657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1562657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1563657a5209SMike Frysinger 1564c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1565c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1566c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1567c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1568c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1569c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1570c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1571c443279aSChristian Brauner 1572c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1573c443279aSChristian Brauner 1574657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1575657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1576657a5209SMike Frysinger 15776a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1579f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1580f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1587ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15892813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1590ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1591ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1592ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1593ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15942813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15952813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15962813893fSIulia Manda default y 15972813893fSIulia Manda help 15982813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15992813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16002813893fSIulia Manda 16012813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16022813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16032813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16042813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16052813893fSIulia Manda 16062813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16072813893fSIulia Manda 1608f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1609f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1610cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1611a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1612f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1613f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1614f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1615f6187769SFabian Frederick 1616f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1617f6187769SFabian Frederick 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1631baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1632baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1633baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1634baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1635baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1636baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1637baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1638baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1639baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1640baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1641baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1642baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1643baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1644baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1645baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1646baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1647baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1648d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1649d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 165174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1652d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1653d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1654d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1655d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1656d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1657d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1658d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1659c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1661c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1662c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1663c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1664c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1665c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1666c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1667c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1668c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1669708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1670046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1671708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1673708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1674708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1675708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16768761f1abSRalf Baechle 1677e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16798761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 168015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1681e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1682e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1683e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1684e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1685e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 168627021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 168727021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 168927021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16953f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1697bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1703bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1704bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1705bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1706bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1707bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 17081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1715fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1717fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1718fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1719fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1720fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1721fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1722fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1723fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1724b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1726b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1727b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1728b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1729b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1730b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1731b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1732b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1733e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1735e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1736e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1737e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1738e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1739e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1740e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1741e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1753ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1755ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1756ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1757ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1758ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1759ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1760ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17612b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17622b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1763561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17642b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17652b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17662b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17672b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17682b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17692b188cc1SJens Axboe 17701802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17711802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17721802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17731802656eSJens Axboe help 17741802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17751802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17761802656eSJens Axboe 17771802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17781802656eSJens Axboe 17791802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17801802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17811802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17821802656eSJens Axboe 1783d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1784d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1785d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1786d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1787d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1788d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1789d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1790d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1791d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1792d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1823a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1824a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1825a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1826a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1827a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1828a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1829a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1838a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1839a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1840a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1841a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1842a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1843a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1844a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1845a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1846a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1847a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1848a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1849a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1850a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1851a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1852a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1853a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1854a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1855d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1856d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1857d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1858d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1859d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1860d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1861d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1862d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 186330f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 186430f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 186530f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 186630f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 186730f3bb09SZhen Lei help 186830f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 186930f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 187030f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 187130f3bb09SZhen Lei 187230f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 187330f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 187430f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 187530f3bb09SZhen Lei 1876d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1877d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1878d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1879d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1880d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1881d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1882bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1883bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1884bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1885bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1886d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1887d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1888d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1889d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1890d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1891d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1892bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1893d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1894d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1895d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18963ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18973ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18983ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 189970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 190070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 190170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19025796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19035796d396SJeff Xu bool 19045796d396SJeff Xu help 19055796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19065796d396SJeff Xu 19075796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19085796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19095796d396SJeff Xu 19105796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19115796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19125796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19135796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19145796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19155796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19165796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19175796d396SJeff Xu 19185796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19195796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19205796d396SJeff Xu 19215796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19225796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19235796d396SJeff Xu 1924cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19250793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1926018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1927018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19292aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19302aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19312aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19322aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1933906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1934906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1935906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1936906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1937906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 193857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1940cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 194157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1942392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1943cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1944e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19450793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 194657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 194757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19480793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1949dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 195057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 195157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 195257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 195357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19540793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19550793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19560793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19570793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19580793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19590793a61dSThomas Gleixner 196057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1961dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 196257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19630793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19640793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19650793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19660793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19670793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1968906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1969906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1970906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1971cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1972906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1973906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1974906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1975906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1976906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1977906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1978906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1979906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1980906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19810793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19820793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1983091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1984091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1985091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1986091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1987091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1988d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1989091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1990091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1991091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1992091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1993091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1994091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 199582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1996091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1997091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1998091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1999091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 200082c04ff8SPeter Foley 2001125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2002b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2003125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2004125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2005f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2006125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20072f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2011ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2012ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2013f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20155daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20168b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2017ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2018af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2019f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 202093e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20282f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20302f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20312f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20342f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20352f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20362f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20375134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20385134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20395134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20402f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20412f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20422f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20432f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20449e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2045c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2046c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2047c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2048c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2049aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20502f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20525f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20535f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20545f87f112SIngo Molnar# 205597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20565f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2057a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 205897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 205989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 206089cde455SEric DeVolder 20611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20631572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20641572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2065ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20666341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20671c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2068ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2069c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2070c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2071c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2072c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 207373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20746c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 207598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 207698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 207798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20785f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20795f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 208098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 208198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2082692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 208398a79d6aSRusty Russell 20843a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2085e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2086e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2087e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2088e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 208916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 209016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 209116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 209216295becSSteffen Klassert 20934520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20944520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20954520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20964520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20974520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20984520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20994520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21004520c6a4SDavid Howells 21016beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2102e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21030ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21040ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21050ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21064ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21074ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21084ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2109e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2110e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21111bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21121bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21157303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21167303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21177303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21187303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21191bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21201bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2121