1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 129f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 132*47cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 133*47cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 134*47cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 135613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 136613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 137613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 138613fe169SNathan Chancellor 139b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 140b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 141b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 142e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 143fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 144e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 14510916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1461dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1471dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 148c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 149c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 150c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 151c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 152c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 153c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 154c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 155c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 156c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 157c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 158ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 170dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 171dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 17434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1764bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1774bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 178ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1794bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1804bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1814bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1824bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1834bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1844bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1854bb16672SJiri Slaby 1864bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1874bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1884bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1894bb16672SJiri Slaby 1903fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1913fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 192b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1933fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1943fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 196e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 197e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 198e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1993fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 200e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 201e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2023fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2033fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2053fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2063fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 207d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 208d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 209fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 210d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 211d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 212d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 213d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 214d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 215d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 216d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 227aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 228aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 229aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 230ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 231aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 232aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 235aaebf433SRyan Anderson 236aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 238aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 240aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2410f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2426e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 247aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2489afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2499afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2509afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2519afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2529afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2539afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2549afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2559afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2569afb719eSLaura Abbott 2572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2663ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2673ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2683ebe1243SLasse Collin 2697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 27548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 27648f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 27748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 278f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 279f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 280f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 28230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 28448f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3150a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3240a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3260a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3293ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3303ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3313ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3323ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3333ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3343ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3353ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3367472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3377472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3387472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3393ebe1243SLasse Collin 3403ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3413ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3423ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin 3447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 349681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 352e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 353e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 354e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 355e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 356e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 357e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 358e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 359e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 360e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 361e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 362e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 36448f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 36548f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 36648f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 36748f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 36848f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 36948f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 37048f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 37148f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 37248f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 37348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 374f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 375f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 376f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 377f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 378f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 379f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 380f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 381f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 382f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 383f16466afSVasily Gorbik 38430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 38530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 386ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 387ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 388ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 389ada4ab7aSChris Down help 390ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 391ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 392ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 393ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 394ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 395ada4ab7aSChris Down 396bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 397bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 398bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 399bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 400bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 401bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 402bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 403bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 404bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 407a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 420a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 421a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 422a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 423a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 424a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 425a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4260cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4270cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4280cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4290cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 43219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 433a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 438b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 446bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 447bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 448bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 449bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 450bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 451bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 452c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 453c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 454c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 455c73be61cSDavid Howells help 456c73be61cSDavid Howells 457c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 458c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 459c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 460c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 461c73be61cSDavid Howells 462c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 463c73be61cSDavid Howells 464226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 465226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 466226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 467226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 468226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 469226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 470226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 471a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 472226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 473226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 47469369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4757374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4767374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 47769369a70SJosh Triplett help 47869369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 47969369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 48069369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 48169369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 48269369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 48369369a70SJosh Triplett 4841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 486804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 490cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 491cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4937a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4947a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4957a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 497cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4987a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 49928a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50074c3cbe3SAl Viro 501d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 502764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 503b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 50487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 505d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51302382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 518c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 526abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 528c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 539abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54124a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 542554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 543041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 544abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 54524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 546abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 547abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 548abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 549abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 558b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 559b58c3584SRik van Riel 560fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 561fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 562b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 563fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 564fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 565fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 567fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 568fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57211d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57311d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 57411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 57511d4afd4SVincent Guittot 576d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 57798eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 578fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 579fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58076504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58198eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58298eb401dSValentin Schneider help 583d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 584d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 58598eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 586d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 587d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider 58998eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59098eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider 59298eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 593d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 59476504793SThara Gopinath 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6163903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6242813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 63619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 638f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 64819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 65719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 665eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 666eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 66798dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 668eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 669eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 670eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 673eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6772ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6782ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6792ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6802ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 681c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 682eb414681SJohannes Weiner 683eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 684eb414681SJohannes Weiner 685e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 686e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 687e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 688e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 689e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 690e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 691428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 692428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6947b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6957b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6967b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6977b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6987b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 705391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 706391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7075c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7085c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 709414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 7102c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7115c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7125c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7135c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7142c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7152c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7162c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7190af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 720c903ff83SMike Travis 7211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 722f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 723a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 736a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 740f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 741f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 742f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 744f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 745f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 746f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 74843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 749794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 750794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7511c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 752f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 753361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 754794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 760f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 761f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 762f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 765794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 766794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 767794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7702240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 773320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 774361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7870f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7935e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7945e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80433701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 80533701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 80633701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 80733701557SChris Down help 80833701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 80933701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81033701557SChris Down 81133701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81233701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81333701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81433701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 81533701557SChris Down 81633701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 81733701557SChris Down 8185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82438ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82538ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82638ff87f7SStephen Boyd 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 887be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 88872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 88972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 89072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 89172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 89572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 89672b252aeSMel Gorman 897c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8983a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 899c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 900dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 901dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 902158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 903dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 904dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9053e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9060da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9073e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9085a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9095a41237aSLinus Torvalds 910f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 911f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9128e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 913f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 91402153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 91502153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 916a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 917a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 918a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 919a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 92002153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 921a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 922a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 923a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 924a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 925a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 92672b252aeSMel Gorman# 927be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 928be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 929be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 930be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 931be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 942554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9466d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9506f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9516f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9526f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9536f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 95821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 95921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 96021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 96123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9626341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9632bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 964ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 96523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 969d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 970da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 97145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 972ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 973ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 974ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 97523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 97623964d2dSLi Zefan 9773e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9783e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9793e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9806a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9816a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9826a010a49STejun Heo help 9836a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9846a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9856a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9866a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9876a010a49STejun Heo 9886a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9896a010a49STejun Heo 990c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 991a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9923e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 99500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 996a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 99700f0b825SBalbir Singh 998e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 999e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1000c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1001e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1002e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1003e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1004e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1005e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1006e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1007e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1008e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1009e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1010e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1011e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1013fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 101484c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10182bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1019a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10232bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1028e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10327baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1035da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1041e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10427c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1043a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10447c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10457c941438SDhaval Giani help 10467c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10477c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10487c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10497c941438SDhaval Giani 10507c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1051e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1052e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1053e179e80cSTejun Heo 10547c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10557c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10567c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1057e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10587c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10597c941438SDhaval Giani 1060ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1061ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1062ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1063ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1064ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1065ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1066ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1067ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1068ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1069d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1070ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10717c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10727c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10737c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10747c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10757c941438SDhaval Giani help 10767c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 107732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10787c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10797c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1080d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10817c941438SDhaval Giani 108281951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 108381951366STejun Heo bool 108481951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 108581951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 108681951366STejun Heo default y 108781951366STejun Heo 10887c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10897c941438SDhaval Giani 1090af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1091af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1092af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1093af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10942480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10952480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10962480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10972480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10982480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10992480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11002480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11012480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11022480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11032480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11042480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11052480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11062480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11072480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11256cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 112898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 113339d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 113439d3e758SParav Pandit help 113539d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 113639d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 113739d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 113839d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 113939d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 114039d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 114139d3e758SParav Pandit 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1148489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1149489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1150489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1151489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1152489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1157afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1168afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1171e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1172bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1178afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1180afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11811abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11821abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11831abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 11841abab1baSChen Ridong default n 11851abab1baSChen Ridong help 11861abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 11871abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 11881abab1baSChen Ridong which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 11891abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 11901abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 11911abab1baSChen Ridong 11921abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 11931abab1baSChen Ridong 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 119789e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 119889e9b9e0STejun Heo 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12056bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12176546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12186546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 122230070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 122330070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1224483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1225483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 122630070984SDaniel Mack help 122730070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 122830070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 122930070984SDaniel Mack 123030070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 123130070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 123230070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 123330070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 123430070984SDaniel Mack 1235a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1236a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1237a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1238a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1239a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1240a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1241a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1242a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1243a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1244a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1245a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1246a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1247a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1248a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12496bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 125023b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 125223b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 125523b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 125623b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 125723b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 126173b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 126273b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 126373b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 126473b35147SArnd Bergmann 126523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1266c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12692813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12706a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1271c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1272c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1273c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1274c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1275c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1276c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 127958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 128058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 128117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 128258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 128358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 128458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 128558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1286769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1287769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1288660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1289769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1290769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1291769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1292769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1293769071acSAndrei Vagin 1294ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1295ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12968dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 129717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1298ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1299ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1300614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1301ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1302aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 130319c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13045673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1305aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1306aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1307aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1308e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1309e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1310d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1311d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1312d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1313e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1314aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1315aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 131674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13179bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 131817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 131974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 132012d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1321692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 132274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 132374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1324d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1325d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 132717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1328d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1329d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1330d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1331d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13345cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13355cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 133630341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13375cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1338bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13395cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13405cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13415cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13425cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13435cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13445cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13455cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13465cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13475cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13485091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13495091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13505091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13515091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13525091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13535091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13545091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13555091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13565091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13575091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13585091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13595091faa4SMike Galbraith 13607af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13617af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 136226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13637af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13647af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13657af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13667af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13677af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13687af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13707af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1372f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1373f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1374f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1375f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1376f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1377f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1378f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13798c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1380f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1381f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1382f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1383f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1384f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1385f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1386f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1387c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1388c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1389dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1390dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1391c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1392c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 139376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 139476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1395a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 139676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 139776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 139876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13990947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 140085c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14010947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 140276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 140376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 140476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1405b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1406b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1407b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14086ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1409b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1410b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1411b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1412b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1413b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1414b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1415b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1416b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1417b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1418a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1419a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1420a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1421a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1422a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1423a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1424a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1425a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1426a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1427a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1428a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1429a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1430a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1431a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1432a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1433a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1434a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1435a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1436a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14371274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14381274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14391274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14401274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14411274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14421274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14431274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14441274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14451274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14461274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1447877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1448877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14492cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1450877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1451877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 145215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1453877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1454877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1455877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1456877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1457877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1458c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 145915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1460c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1461ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1462ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1463c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1464877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1465877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14665d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14765d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1480e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1481e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14838b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14848b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14858b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 149459612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 149559612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 149659612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 149759612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1498e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1499e1789d7cSXin Li 1500e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1501e1789d7cSXin Li string 1502e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1503e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1504e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 150559612b24SNathan Chancellor 15060847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15070847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15080847062aSRandy Dunlap 1509657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1510657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1511657a5209SMike Frysinger 1512657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1513657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1514657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1515657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1516657a5209SMike Frysinger 1517657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1518657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1519657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1520657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1521657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1522657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1523657a5209SMike Frysinger 1524657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1525657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1526657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1527657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1528657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1529657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1530657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1531657a5209SMike Frysinger 1532657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1533657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1534657a5209SMike Frysinger 15356a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1537f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1538f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1545ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15472813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1548ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1549ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1550ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1551ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15522813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15532813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15542813893fSIulia Manda default y 15552813893fSIulia Manda help 15562813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15572813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15582813893fSIulia Manda 15592813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15602813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15612813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15622813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15632813893fSIulia Manda 15642813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15652813893fSIulia Manda 1566f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1567f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1568cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1569a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1570f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1571f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1572f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1573f6187769SFabian Frederick 1574f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1575f6187769SFabian Frederick 15766af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1579a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15816af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15826af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15836af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1599baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1600baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1601baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1602baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1603baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1604baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1605baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1606baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1607baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1608baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1609baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1610baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1611baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1612baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1613baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1614baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1615baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1616d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1617d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 161974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1620d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1621d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1622d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1623d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1624d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1625d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1626d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1627c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1629c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1630c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1631c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1632c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1633c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1634c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1635c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1636c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1637708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1638046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1639708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1641708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1642708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1643708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16448761f1abSRalf Baechle 1645e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16478761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 164815f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1649e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1650e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1651e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1652e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1653e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 165427021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 165527021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 165727021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16633f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1665bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1671bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1672bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1673bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1674bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1675bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1683fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1685fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1686fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1687fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1688fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1689fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1690fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1691fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1692b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1694b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1695b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1696b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1697b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1698b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1699b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1700b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1701e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1703e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1704e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1705e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1706e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1707e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1708e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1709e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1721ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1723ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1724ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1725ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1726ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1727ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1728ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17292b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17302b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1731561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17322b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17332b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17342b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17352b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17362b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17372b188cc1SJens Axboe 17381802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17391802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17401802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17411802656eSJens Axboe help 17421802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17431802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17441802656eSJens Axboe 17451802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17461802656eSJens Axboe 17471802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17481802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17491802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17501802656eSJens Axboe 1751d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1752d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1753d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1754d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1755d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1756d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1757d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1758d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1759d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1760d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1773a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1774a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1775a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1776a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1777a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1778a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1779a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1780a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1781a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1782a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1783a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1784a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1785a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1786a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1787a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1788a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1789a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1790a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1791a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1792a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1793a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1794a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1795a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1796a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1823d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1824d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1825d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1826d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1827d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1828d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1829d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1830d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 183130f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 183230f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 183330f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 183430f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 183530f3bb09SZhen Lei help 183630f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 183730f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 183830f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 183930f3bb09SZhen Lei 184030f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 184130f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 184230f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 184330f3bb09SZhen Lei 1844d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1845d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1846d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1847d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1848d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1849d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1850bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1851bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1852bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1853bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1854d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1855d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1856d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1857d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1858d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1859d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1860bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1861d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1862d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1863d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1864d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1865d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1866d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1867d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1868d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18693ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18703ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18713ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 187270216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 187370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 187470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1875cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18760793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1877018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1878018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18802aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18812aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18822aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18832aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1884906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1885906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1886906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1887906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1888906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 188957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1891cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 189257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1893392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1894cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1895e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18960793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 189757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 189857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1900dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 190157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 190257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 190357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 190457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19050793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19060793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19070793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19080793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19090793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19100793a61dSThomas Gleixner 191157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1912dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 191357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19140793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19150793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19170793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1919906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1920906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1921906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1922cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1923906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1924906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1925906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1926906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1927906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1928906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1929906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1930906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1931906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19320793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19330793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1934091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1939d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1942091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1943091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1944091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1945091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 194682c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1947091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1948091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1949091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1950091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 195182c04ff8SPeter Foley 1952125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1953b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1954125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1955125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1956f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1957125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19582f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19592f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19602f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19622f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 1963f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 19642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1965c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19668b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 1967ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 1968af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 1969f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 197093e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 19712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19762f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19812f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19822f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19832f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19842f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19852f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19862f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19875134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 19885134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 19895134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 19902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19912f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19949e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 1995c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 1996c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 1997c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 1998c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 1999aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20015f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20025f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20035f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20045f87f112SIngo Molnar# 200597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20065f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2007a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 200897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 200989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 201089cde455SEric DeVolder 20111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20131572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20141572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2015ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20166341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20171c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2018ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2019c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2020c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2021c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2022c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 202373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20246c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 202598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 202698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 202798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20285f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20295f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 203098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 203198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2032692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 203398a79d6aSRusty Russell 20343a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2035e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2036e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2037e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2038e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 203916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 204016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 204116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 204216295becSSteffen Klassert 20434520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20444520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20454520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20464520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20474520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20484520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20494520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20504520c6a4SDavid Howells 20516beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2052e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20530ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20540ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20550ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20564ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20574ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 20584ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2059e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2060e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20611bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20621bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20637303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20647303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20657303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20667303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20677303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20687303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20691bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20701bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2071