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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
29b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
30b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
31b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
32b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
47b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
49e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
521dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
62c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
65ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
834bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
844bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
85bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
864bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
874bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
894bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
904bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
934bb16672SJiri Slaby
944bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
974bb16672SJiri Slaby
981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
108aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
110aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
111ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
112aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
113aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
117aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
119aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
121aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
128aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1299afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1309afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1319afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1329afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1339afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1349afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1359afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1369afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1379afb719eSLaura Abbott
1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1473ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1483ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1493ebe1243SLasse Collin
1507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
153e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
154e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
155e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
156f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
157f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
158f16466afSVasily Gorbik
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
162f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1930a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2040a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2063ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2073ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2083ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2093ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2103ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2113ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2123ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2133ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2143ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2153ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2163ebe1243SLasse Collin
2173ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2183ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2193ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2203ebe1243SLasse Collin
2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
226681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
229e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
231e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
232e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
233e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
234e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
235e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
241f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
242f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
243f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
244f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
245f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
246f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
247f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
248f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
249f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
250f16466afSVasily Gorbik
25130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
253bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
254bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
255bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
256bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
257bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
258bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
259bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
26217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
26417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
26517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
26717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
26817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
294a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
295a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
296a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
297a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
298a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
299a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
30219c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
308b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
316bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
317bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
318bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
319bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
320bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
321bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
322226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
323226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
324226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
325226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
326226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
327226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
328226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
329a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
33269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
33369369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
334b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
33569369a70SJosh Triplett	help
33669369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
33769369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
33869369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
33969369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
34069369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
34169369a70SJosh Triplett
3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
344804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
348cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
349cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3517a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3527a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
355cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3567a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
35728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
35874c3cbe3SAl Viro
359d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
360764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
36187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
362d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
37102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
386c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
399ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
400554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
401041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
416b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
417b58c3584SRik van Riel
418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
420b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
423fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
424fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
427fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
42911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
43011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
43111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
43211d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
43311d4afd4SVincent Guittot
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4362813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4553903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
46119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4632813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
47519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
477f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
48719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
49619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
504eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
505eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
506eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
507eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
508eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
509eb414681SJohannes Weiner
510eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
511eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
512eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
513eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
514eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5152ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
519eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
520eb414681SJohannes Weiner
521eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
522eb414681SJohannes Weiner
523e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
524e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
525e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
526e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
527e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
528e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
529428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
530428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
531e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
547414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5495c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5522c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5570af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
558c903ff83SMike Travis
559de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
560de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
561de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
562de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
564f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
565de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
583*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS_PROC
584*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel header artifacts through /proc/kheaders.tar.xz"
585*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on PROC_FS
586*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
587*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the kernel header and other artifacts that
588*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	  are generated during the build process. These can be used to build eBPF
589*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracing programs, or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a
590*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	  module, a module called kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand
591*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	  to get access to the headers.
592*43d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
593794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
594794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
595fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
596f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
597361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
598794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
60323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
604f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
606f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
607f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
608f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
609794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
610794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
611794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6142240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
61623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
618361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6385e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
648f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
649f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
650427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
651427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
652f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
653427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
654f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
655f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
656f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
657f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
658f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
659427934b8SPetr Mladek
660f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
661427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
662427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
663427934b8SPetr Mladek
664427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
665427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
666427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
667427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
668427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
669427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
670427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
671427934b8SPetr Mladek
6725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
67838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
67938ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
68038ff87f7SStephen Boyd
681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
686be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
687be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
688be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
68972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
69072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
69172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
69272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
69372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
69472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
69572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
69672b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
69772b252aeSMel Gorman
69872b252aeSMel Gorman#
699be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
700be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
701be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
702be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
703be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
704be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
705be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
706be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
707be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
708be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
709be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
710be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
711be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
712be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
713be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
714be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
716be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
717be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
7186d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
719be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
720be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
721be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
7256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
73023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7316341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7322bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
733ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
73423964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7399991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
74045ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
741ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
742ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
743ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
74423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
74523964d2dSLi Zefan
7463e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7473e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7483e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
749c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
750a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7513e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
75279bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
75300f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
754a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
75500f0b825SBalbir Singh
756c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
757a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
758c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
759c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
760a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
761a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
762c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
763a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
764c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
765a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
766a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
767a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
768a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
76943d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
77007555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
771a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
772a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
773a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
77400a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
775c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
77684c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
77784c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
77884c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
77984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
78084c07d11SKirill Tkhai
7816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
7842bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
7886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
7892bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
794e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8019991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
815e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8167c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
817a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8187c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8197c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8207c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8217c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8227c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8237c941438SDhaval Giani
8247c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8257c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8267c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8277c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8287c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8297c941438SDhaval Giani
830ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
831ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
832ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
833ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
834ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
835ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
836ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
837ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
838ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
839cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
840ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8417c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8427c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8437c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8447c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8457c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8467c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
84732bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8487c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8497c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8507c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8517c941438SDhaval Giani
8527c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8537c941438SDhaval Giani
8546bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8636cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
86698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
87039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
87139d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
87239d3e758SParav Pandit	help
87339d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
87439d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
87539d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
87639d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
87739d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
87839d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
87939d3e758SParav Pandit
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
886489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
887489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
888489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
889489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
890489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
895afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
906afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
909e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
915afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
917afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
92189e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
92289e9b9e0STejun Heo
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
94530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
94630070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
947483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
948483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
94930070984SDaniel Mack	help
95030070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
95130070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
95230070984SDaniel Mack
95330070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
95430070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
95530070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
95630070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
95730070984SDaniel Mack
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
95923b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
96123b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
96423b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
96523b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
96623b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
97073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
97173b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
97273b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
97373b35147SArnd Bergmann
97423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
975c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9768dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9782813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
9796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
980c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
981c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
982c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
983c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
984c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
985c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
9868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
9878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
98858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
98958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
99017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
99158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
99258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
99358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
99458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
995ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
996ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
9978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
99817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
999ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1000ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1001614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1002ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1003aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
100419c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
10055673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1006aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1007aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1008aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1009e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1010e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1011d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1012d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1013d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1014e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1015aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1016aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
101774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10189bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
101917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
102074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
102112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1022692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
102374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
102474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1025d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1026d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
102817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1029d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1030d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1031d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1032d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10355cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10365cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10375cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10385cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10395cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10405cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10415cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10425cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10435cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10445cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10455cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10465cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10475091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10485091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10495091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10505091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10515091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10525091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10535091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10545091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10555091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10565091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10575091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10585091faa4SMike Galbraith
10597af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10605d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
10817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10827af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
10835d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10977af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
109926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11047af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11087af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1109f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1110f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1111f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1112f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1113f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1114f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1115f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
11168c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1117f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1118f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1119f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1120f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1121f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1122f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1123f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1124c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1125c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1126dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1127dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1128c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1129c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1130877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1131877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11322cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1133877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1134877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1135877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1136877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1137877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1138877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1139877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1140877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1141c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
114296fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1143b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1144c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
114531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
114631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1147c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11483a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1149c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1150877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1151877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11525d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11625d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
116616fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1167e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1168e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
11695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
11718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
11728b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
11735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
11755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
11765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
11775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
11785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
11795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
11805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11810847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
11820847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
11830847062aSRandy Dunlap
1184b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1185b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1186b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1187657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1188657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1189657a5209SMike Frysinger
1190657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1191657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1192657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1193657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1194657a5209SMike Frysinger
1195657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1196657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1197657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1198657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1199657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1200657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1201657a5209SMike Frysinger
1202657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1203657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1204657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1205657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1206657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1207657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1208657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1209657a5209SMike Frysinger
1210657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1211657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1212657a5209SMike Frysinger
1213f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1214f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1215f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1216f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
12176a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12186a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1219f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1220f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1227ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12292813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1230ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1231ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1232ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1233ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12342813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12352813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12362813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12372813893fSIulia Manda	help
12382813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12392813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12402813893fSIulia Manda
12412813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12422813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12432813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12442813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12452813893fSIulia Manda
12462813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12472813893fSIulia Manda
1248f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1249f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1250a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1251f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1252f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1253f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1254f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1255f6187769SFabian Frederick
1256f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1257f6187769SFabian Frederick
12586af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1268b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
127026a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1271c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1272b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1273b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
127413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
127513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
127613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
127713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1278b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
127913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
128013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
128113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1282b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1283c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1284ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1285d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1286d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1287d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1288d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1289d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1290d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1291d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1292d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1293d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1294d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1295d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1296d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1297d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1298baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1299baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1300baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1301baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1302baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1303baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1304baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1305baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1306baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1307baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1308baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1309baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1310baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1311baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1312baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1313baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1314baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1315d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1316d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
131874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1319d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1320d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1321d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1322d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1323d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1324d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1325d59745ceSMatt Mackall
132642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
132742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
132842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
132942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
133042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1331c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1333c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1334c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1335c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1336c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1337c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1338c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1339c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1340c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1341708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1342046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1343708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1345708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1346708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1347708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13488761f1abSRalf Baechle
1349e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13518761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
135215f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1353e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1354e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1355e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1356e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1357e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1369bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1375bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1376bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1377bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1378bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1379bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
138003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
138103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
138262b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
138303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
138403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
138503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
138603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
138703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1391448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1396fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1398448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1399fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1400fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1401fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1402fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1403fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1404fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1405fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1406b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1408448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1409b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1410b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1411b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1412b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1413b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1414b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1415b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1416e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1418448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1419e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1420e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1421e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1422e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1423e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1424e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1425e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1437ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1439ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1440ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1441ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1442ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1443ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1444ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
14452b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
14462b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
14472b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
14482b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
14492b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
14502b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
14512b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
14522b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
14532b188cc1SJens Axboe
1454d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1455d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1456d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1457d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1458d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1459d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1460d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1461d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1462d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1463d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
14755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1509a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1531bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1537290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1538290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1539290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1540290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1541290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1542290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1543290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15523ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15533ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
155570216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
155670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
155770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1558d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1559d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1560d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1561d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1562d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1563d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1564d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1565d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1566d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1567d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1568d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1569d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1570d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1571d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1572d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1573d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1574d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1575d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1576d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1577d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1578d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1579d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1580d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15816befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15826befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15835d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1590cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15910793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1592018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1593018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15940793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1595906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1596906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1597906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1598906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1599906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1600ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1601424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1602ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1603ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1604ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1605ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1606ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
160757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1609cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
161057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1611392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1612cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16134c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1614e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
161583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16160793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
161757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
161857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16190793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1620dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
162157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
162257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
162357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
162457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16250793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16280793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16290793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16300793a61dSThomas Gleixner
163157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1632dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
163357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16340793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16350793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16360793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16380793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1639906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1640906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1641906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1642cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1643906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1644906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1645906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1646906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1647906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1648906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1649906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1650906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1651906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16520793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16530793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1654f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1655f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1657f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16582aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16612aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1662f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
166341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
166441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1666f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
166741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
166841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
166941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
167041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
167141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
167241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16731663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16741663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16751663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16761663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16771663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16781663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16791663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16801663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16811663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16821663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16831663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16841663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16851663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16861663f26dSTejun Heo
1687b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1688b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1689b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1690b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1691b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1692b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1693b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1694692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1695b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1696b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1697b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1698b943c460SRandy Dunlap
169981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
170081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1701a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
170281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
170481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
170581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
170681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
170704385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
170881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
170981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
171034013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
171102f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
171281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
171381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1715ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
171681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
171781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
172102f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
172202f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
172381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
172781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172837291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
172937291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
173037291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
173181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
173281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
173381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17347660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17357660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17367660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17377660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17387660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17397660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17407660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17417660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17427660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17437660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17447660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17457660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17467660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17477660a6fdSKees Cook
1748c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1749c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1750210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1751c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1752c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1753210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1754c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1755c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1756c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17572482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17582482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17592482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17602482ddecSKees Cook	help
17612482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17622482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17632482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17642482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17652482ddecSKees Cook
1766345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1767345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1768b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1769345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1770345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1771345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1772345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1773345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1774345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1775345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1776345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1777ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1778ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1780ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1781ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1782ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
17833903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1784ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1785ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1786ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1787ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1788ea637639SJie Zhang
1789ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1790ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1791ea637639SJie Zhang
1792ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1793ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1794ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1795ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1796ea637639SJie Zhang
1797ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1798ea637639SJie Zhang
1799091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1800091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1801091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1802091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1803091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1804d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1805091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1806091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1807091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1808091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1809091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1810091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
181182c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1812091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1813091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1814091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1815091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
181682c04ff8SPeter Foley
1817125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1818b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1819125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1820125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1821125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1822125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18235f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18245f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18255f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18265f87f112SIngo Molnar#
182797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18285f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
182997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
18301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18321572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18331572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1834ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18356341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1836ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
184266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
184411097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18630b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18640b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1865826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1866826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1867826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1868826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
186991e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
187091e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
187191e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1872826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1878f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1879f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
188319c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18920d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
190156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
190256067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
190356067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
190456067812SArd Biesheuvel
19051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1916106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1917106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1918106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1919091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1920106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1921106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1922106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1923cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1924106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1925228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1926228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1927228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1928228c37ffSDavid Howells
1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1934106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1935106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1936106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1937106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1938106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1939106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1941d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1942d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1943d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1944d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1945d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1946d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1947d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1948d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1949d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1950d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1951d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1956ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1957ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1958ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1959ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1960ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1961ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1962ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1963ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1969ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1970ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1971ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1972ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1973ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1974ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1981ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1982ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1983ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
198422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
198522753674SMichal Marek	string
198622753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
198722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
198822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
198922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
199022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
199122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
199222753674SMichal Marek
1993beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1994beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1998b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1999b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2000beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2001b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2002beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2003b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2004b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2005beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2006b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2007b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2008beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2009b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2010b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2011b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2012beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2013beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2014beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2015beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2016beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2017beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2018beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2019beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2020beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2021beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2022beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2023beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2024beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2025beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2026beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2027beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2028beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2031dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2032dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2033dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2034dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2035dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2036dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2037dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2038dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2039dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2040dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2041dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2042dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2043dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2044dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2045f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2046dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20470b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20480b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20496c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20506c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20516c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20526c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
205398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
205498a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
205598a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20565f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20575f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
205898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
205998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2060692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
206198a79d6aSRusty Russell
20623a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2063e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2064e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2065e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2066e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
206716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
206816295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
206916295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
207016295becSSteffen Klassert
20714520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20724520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20734520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20744520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20754520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20764520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20774520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20784520c6a4SDavid Howells
20796beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2080e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2081e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2082e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
20831bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
20841bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
20857303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
20867303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
20877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
20887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
20897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
20907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
20911bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
20921bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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