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 632f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 741a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 759371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 76f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 781a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 79b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 81f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 84587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86587f1701SNick Desaulniers 871aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 881aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 891aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90534bd703SAlexandre 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) 911aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 9268fb3ca0SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND 9368fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds bool 9468fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds depends on CC_IS_GCC && CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 9568fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds # Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 9668fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 9768fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 9868fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 9968fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 10068fb3ca0SLinus Torvalds 1015cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1022d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1035cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 104eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 105eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 106eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 10751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 10851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 10951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 110613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 111613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 112613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 113613fe169SNathan Chancellor 114b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 115b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 116b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 117e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 118e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 119e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 12010916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1211dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1221dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 123c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 124c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 125c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 126c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 127c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 128c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 129c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 130c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 131c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 132c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 133ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 145dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 146dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 14934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1514bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1524bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 153ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1544bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1554bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1564bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1574bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1584bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1594bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1604bb16672SJiri Slaby 1614bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1624bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1634bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1644bb16672SJiri Slaby 1653fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1663fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 167b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1683fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1693fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 171e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 172e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 173e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1743fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 175e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 176e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1773fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1783fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1793fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1803fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1813fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 182d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 183d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 184fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 185d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 186d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 187d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 188d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 189d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 190d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 191d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 202aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 203aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 204aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 205ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 206aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 207aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 210aaebf433SRyan Anderson 211aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 215aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2160f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 222aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2239afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2249afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2259afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2269afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2279afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2289afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2299afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2309afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2319afb719eSLaura Abbott 2322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2413ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2423ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2433ebe1243SLasse Collin 2447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 248e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 25048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 25148f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 25248f7ddf7SNick Terrell 253f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 254f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 255f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 25948f7ddf7SNick 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 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2900a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2990a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3000a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3010a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3033ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3043ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3053ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3073ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3083ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3093ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3103ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3113ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3123ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3133ebe1243SLasse Collin 3143ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3153ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3163ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3173ebe1243SLasse Collin 3187dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3197dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3220a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 323681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 326e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 327e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 328e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 329e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 330e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 331e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 332e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 333e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 334e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 335e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 336e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 337e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 33848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 33948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 34048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 34148f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 34248f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 34348f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 34448f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 34548f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 34648f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 34748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 348f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 349f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 350f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 351f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 352f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 353f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 354f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 355f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 356f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 357f16466afSVasily Gorbik 35830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 35930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 360ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 361ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 362ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 363ada4ab7aSChris Down help 364ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 365ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 366ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 367ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 368ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 369ada4ab7aSChris Down 370bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 371bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 372bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 373bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 374bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 375bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 376bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 377bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 378bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 381a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 394a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 395a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 396a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 397a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 398a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 399a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4000cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4010cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4020cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4030cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 40619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 407a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 412b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 420bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 421bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 422bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 423bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 424bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 425bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 426c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 427c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 428c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 429c73be61cSDavid Howells help 430c73be61cSDavid Howells 431c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 432c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 433c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 434c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 435c73be61cSDavid Howells 436c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 437c73be61cSDavid Howells 438226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 439226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 440226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 441226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 442226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 443226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 444226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 445a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 446226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 447226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 44869369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4497374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4507374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 45169369a70SJosh Triplett help 45269369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 45369369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 45469369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 45569369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 45669369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 45769369a70SJosh Triplett 4581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 460804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 464cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 465cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4677a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4687a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4697a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 471cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4727a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 47328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 47474c3cbe3SAl Viro 475d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 476764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 477b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 47887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 479d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 483abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 486fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 48702382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 489fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 490fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 491fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 492c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 493fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 494fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 496fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 497fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 502c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 503abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 51524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 516554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 517041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 518abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 51924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 521abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 524abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 525abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 526abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 527abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 528abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 530abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 531abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 532b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 533b58c3584SRik van Riel 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 536b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 537fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 538fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 540fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 541fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 542fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 543fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 54511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 54611d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 54711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 54811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 54911d4afd4SVincent Guittot 55076504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 552fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 553fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 55476504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 55598eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 55698eb401dSValentin Schneider help 55798eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 55898eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 55998eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 56098eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 56198eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 56298eb401dSValentin Schneider 56398eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 56498eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 56598eb401dSValentin Schneider 56698eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5677e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 56876504793SThara Gopinath 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5712813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5903903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 59619c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5982813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 61019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 612f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 62219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 63119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 639eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 640eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 64198dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 642eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 643eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 644eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 645eb414681SJohannes Weiner 646eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 647eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 648eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 649eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 650eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6512ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6522ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6532ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6542ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 655c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 656eb414681SJohannes Weiner 657eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 658eb414681SJohannes Weiner 659e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 660e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 661e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 662e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 663e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 664e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 665428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 666428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 667e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 679391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 680391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6815c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6825c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 683414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6842c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6865c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6875c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6882c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6892c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6902c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6912c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6925c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6930af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 694c903ff83SMike Travis 6951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 696f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 697a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 710a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 714f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 715f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 716f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 71743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 718f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 719f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 720f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 721f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 72243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 723794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 724794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7251c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 726f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 727361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 728794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 734f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 735f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 736f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 737f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 738f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 739794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 740794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 741794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7442240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 748361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7610f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7675e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7685e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77833701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 77933701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 78033701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 78133701557SChris Down help 78233701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 78333701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 78433701557SChris Down 78533701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 78633701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 78733701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 78833701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 78933701557SChris Down 79033701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 79133701557SChris Down 7925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 79838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 79938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 861be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 86272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 86372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 86472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 86572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 86672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 86772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 86872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 86972b252aeSMel Gorman bool 87072b252aeSMel Gorman 871c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8723a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 873c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 874dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 875dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 876158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 877dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 878dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 879*3e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 8800da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 881*3e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8825a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8835a41237aSLinus Torvalds 884f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 885f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 886*3e00f580SKees Cook default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 100000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 887f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 88802153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 88902153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 890a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 891a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 892a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 893a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 89402153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 895a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 896a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 897a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 898a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 899a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 90072b252aeSMel Gorman# 901be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 902be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 903be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 904be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 905be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 916554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9206d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 93223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9336341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9342bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 93623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 940d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 941da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 94245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 943ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 944ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 945ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 94623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 94723964d2dSLi Zefan 9483e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9493e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9503e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9516a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9526a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9536a010a49STejun Heo help 9546a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9556a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9566a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9576a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9586a010a49STejun Heo 9596a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9606a010a49STejun Heo 961c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 962a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9633e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 96500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 966a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 96700f0b825SBalbir Singh 96884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96984c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 970c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 97184c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 97284c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9762bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 977a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9812bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 986e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9907baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 993da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 999e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10007c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1001a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10027c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10037c941438SDhaval Giani help 10047c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10057c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10067c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10077c941438SDhaval Giani 10087c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10097c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10107c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10117c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10127c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10137c941438SDhaval Giani 1014ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1016ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1021ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1022ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1023d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1024ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10257c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10267c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10277c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10287c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10297c941438SDhaval Giani help 10307c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 103132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10327c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10337c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1034d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10357c941438SDhaval Giani 10367c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10377c941438SDhaval Giani 1038af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1039af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1040af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1041af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10552480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10562480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10572480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10582480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10592480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10602480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10612480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10622480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10632480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10736cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 107698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 108039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 108139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 108239d3e758SParav Pandit help 108339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 108439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 108539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 108639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 108739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 108839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108939d3e758SParav Pandit 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1096489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1097489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1098489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1099489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1100489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1105afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1119e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1127afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 113189e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 113289e9b9e0STejun Heo 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11516546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11526546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 115730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1158483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1159483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 116030070984SDaniel Mack help 116130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 116230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 116330070984SDaniel Mack 116430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 116530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 116630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 116730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 116830070984SDaniel Mack 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1174a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1175a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1176a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1177a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1178a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1179a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1180a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1181a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1182a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 118423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 118623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 119023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 119123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 119573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 119673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 119773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119873b35147SArnd Bergmann 119923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1200c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12032813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12046a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1205c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1206c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1207c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1208c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1209c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1210c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12128dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 121358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 121458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 121517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 121658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 121758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 121858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1220769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1221769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1222660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1223769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1224769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1225769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1226769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1227769071acSAndrei Vagin 1228ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1229ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 123117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1232ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1233ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1234614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1235ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1236aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 123719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12385673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1239aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1240aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1241aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1242e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1243e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1244d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1245d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1246d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1247e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1248aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1249aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 125074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12519bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 125217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 125374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 125412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1255692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 125674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 125774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1258d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1259d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 126117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1262d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1263d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1264d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1265d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12695cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 127030341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1272bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12735cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12745cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12755cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12765cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12775cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12785cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12795cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12805cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12815cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12825091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12855091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12865091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12875091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12885091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12895091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12905091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12915091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12925091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12935091faa4SMike Galbraith 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 129626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1308f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1309f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1310f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1311f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1312f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13138c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1314f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1315f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1316f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1317f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1318f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1319f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1320f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1321c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1322c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1323dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1324dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1325c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1326c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 132776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 132876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1329a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 133076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 133176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 133276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13330947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 133485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13350947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 133676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 133776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 133876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1339b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1340b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1341b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13426ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1343b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1344b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1345b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1346b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1347b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1348b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1349b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1350b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1351b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1352a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1353a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1354a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1355a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1356a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1357a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1358a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1359a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1360a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1361a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1362a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1363a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1364a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1365a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1366a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1367a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1368a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1369a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1370a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13711274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13721274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13731274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13741274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13751274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13761274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13771274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13781274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13791274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13801274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1381877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1382877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13832cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1384877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1385877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 138615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1387877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1388877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1389877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1390877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1391877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1392c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 139315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1394c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1395ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1396ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1397c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1398877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1399877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14005d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14105d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1414e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1415e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14178b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14188b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14198b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 142859612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142959612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 143059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 143159612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1432e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1433e1789d7cSXin Li 1434e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1435e1789d7cSXin Li string 1436e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1437e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1438e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 143959612b24SNathan Chancellor 14400847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14410847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14420847062aSRandy Dunlap 1443657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1444657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1445657a5209SMike Frysinger 1446657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1447657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1448657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1449657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1450657a5209SMike Frysinger 1451657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1452657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1453657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1454657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1455657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1456657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1457657a5209SMike Frysinger 1458657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1459657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1460657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1461657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger 1466657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger 1469f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1470f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1471f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1472ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1473f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14746a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1476f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1477f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1484ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14862813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1487ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1488ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1489ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1490ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14912813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14922813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14932813893fSIulia Manda default y 14942813893fSIulia Manda help 14952813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14962813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14972813893fSIulia Manda 14982813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14992813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15002813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15012813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15022813893fSIulia Manda 15032813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15042813893fSIulia Manda 1505f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1506f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1507a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1508a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1509f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1510f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1511f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1512f6187769SFabian Frederick 1513f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1514f6187769SFabian Frederick 15156af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15176af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1518a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15216af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15226af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15236af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15246af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1538baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1539baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1540baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1541baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1542baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1543baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1544baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1545baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1546baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1547baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1548baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1549baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1550baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1551baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1552baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1553baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1554baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1555d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1556d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 155874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1559d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1560d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1561d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1562d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1563d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1564d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1565d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1566c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1568c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1569c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1570c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1571c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1572c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1573c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1574c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1575c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1576708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1577046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1578708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1580708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1581708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1582708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15838761f1abSRalf Baechle 1584e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15868761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 158715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1588e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1589e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1590e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1591e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1592e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16033f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1605bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1611bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1612bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1613bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1614bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1615bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1623fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1625fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1626fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1627fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1628fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1629fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1630fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1631fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1632b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1634b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1635b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1636b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1637b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1638b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1639b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1640b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1641e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1643e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1644e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1645e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1646e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1647e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1648e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1649e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1663ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1664ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1665ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1666ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1667ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1668ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16692b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16702b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1671561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16722b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16732b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16742b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16752b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16762b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16772b188cc1SJens Axboe 1678d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1679d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1680d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1681d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1682d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1683d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1684d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1685d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1686d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1687d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1700a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1701a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1702a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1703a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1704a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1705a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1706a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1707a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1708a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1709a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1710a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1711a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1712a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1713a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1714a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1715a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1716a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1717a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1718a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1719a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1720a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1721a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1722a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1723a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1724a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1725a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1726a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1727a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1728a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1729a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1730a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1731a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1732a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1733a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1734a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1735a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1736a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1737a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1738a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1739a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1740a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1741a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1742a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1743a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1744a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1745a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1746a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1747a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1748a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1749a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1752d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1754d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1755d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1756d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1757d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 175830f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 175930f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 176030f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 176130f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 176230f3bb09SZhen Lei help 176330f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 176430f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 176530f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 176630f3bb09SZhen Lei 176730f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 176830f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 176930f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 177030f3bb09SZhen Lei 1771d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1772d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1773d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1774d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1775d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1776d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1777bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1778bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1779bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1780bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1781d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1782d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1783d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1784d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1785d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1786d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1787bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1788d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1789d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1790d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1791d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1792d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1793d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1794d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1795d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1796d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1797cf8e8658SArd Biesheuvel default y 1798d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1799d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1800d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1801d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1802d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1803d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1804d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1805d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1806d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1807d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1808d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1809d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1810d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1811d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1812d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1813d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18143ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18153ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18163ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 181770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 181870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 181970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1820cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18210793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1822018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1823018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18252aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18262aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18272aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18282aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1829906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1830906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1831906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1832906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1833906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 183457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1836cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1838392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1839cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1840e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 184357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1845dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 184757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 184957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 185657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1857dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 185857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18600793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18620793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18630793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1867cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1873906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1874906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1875906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1876906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18770793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18780793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1879091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1884d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1885091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1890091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 189182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1895091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 189682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1897125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1898b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1899125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1900125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1901f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1902125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19032f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 19082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1910c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda select CONSTRUCTORS 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19252f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19282f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 19292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19302f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19312f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 19342f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19355f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19365f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19375f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 193997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19405f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 194197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 194289cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 194389cde455SEric DeVolder 19441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19461572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19471572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1948ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19496341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19501c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1951ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1957c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1958c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1959c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1960c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 196173b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19626c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 196398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 196498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 196598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19665f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19675f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 196898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 196998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1970692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 197198a79d6aSRusty Russell 19723a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1973e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1974e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1975e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1976e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 197716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 197816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 197916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 198016295becSSteffen Klassert 19814520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19824520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19834520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19844520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19854520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19864520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19874520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19884520c6a4SDavid Howells 19896beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1990e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19910ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19920ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19930ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1994e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1995e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19971bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19997303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20007303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20037303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20051bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2006