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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT
128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	string
138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	help
158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  This is used in unclear ways:
168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    The 'default' property references the environment variable,
198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated
238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so
248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated
258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it
268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    and then every file will be rebuilt.
278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
29e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc)
30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
33fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
369553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION
379553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	int
389553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh)
399553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap
40469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
41e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang)
42469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
43b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD
44b744b43fSSami Tolvanen	def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD)
45b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
46469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
47469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
48469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
49469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
501a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
519371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
529371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
539371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m32-flag))
541a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
55b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
56b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
57b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
58b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m32-flag))
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
60e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
61e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
62e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
63587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
64587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
65587f1701SNick Desaulniers	def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
66587f1701SNick Desaulniers
675cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
682d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
695cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
70eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
71eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
72eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
73b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
74b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
7587c9366eSJohannes Berg	depends on !UML
76b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
77e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
78e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
79e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
8010916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
811dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
821dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
84c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
85c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
86c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
87c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
88c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
89c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
90c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
91c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
92c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
93ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
105dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
106dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
10934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1114bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1124bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
113bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
1144bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
1154bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1164bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1174bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1184bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1194bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1204bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1214bb16672SJiri Slaby
1224bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1234bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1244bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1254bb16672SJiri Slaby
126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
128fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
146aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
147aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
148aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
149ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
150aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
151aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
154aaebf433SRyan Anderson
155aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
157aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
159aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
166aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1679afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1689afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1699afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1709afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1719afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1729afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1739afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1749afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1759afb719eSLaura Abbott
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1853ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1863ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1873ebe1243SLasse Collin
1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
194f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
195f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
196f16466afSVasily Gorbik
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
200f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2310a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2400a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2410a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2420a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2443ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2453ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2463ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2473ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2483ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2493ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2503ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2513ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2523ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2533ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2543ebe1243SLasse Collin
2553ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2563ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2573ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2583ebe1243SLasse Collin
2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
264681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
267e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
279f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
280f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
281f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
282f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
283f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
284f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
285f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
286f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
287f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
288f16466afSVasily Gorbik
28930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
291ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
292ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
293ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
294ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
295ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
296ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
297ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
298ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
299ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
300ada4ab7aSChris Down
301bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
302bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
303bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
304bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
305bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
306bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
307bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
308bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
309bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
31017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
31117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
31217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
31317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
31417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
31517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
31617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
31917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
329a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
342a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
343a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
344a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
345a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
346a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
347a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
35019c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
351a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
356b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
364bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
365bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
366bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
367bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
368bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
369bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
370c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
371c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
372c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
373c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
374c73be61cSDavid Howells
375c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
376c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
377c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
378c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
379c73be61cSDavid Howells
380c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
381c73be61cSDavid Howells
382226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
383226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
384226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
385226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
386226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
387226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
388226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
389a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
390226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
391226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
39269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
39369369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
394b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
39569369a70SJosh Triplett	help
39669369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
39769369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
39869369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
39969369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
40069369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
40169369a70SJosh Triplett
4021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
404804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
408cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
409cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4117a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4127a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4137a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
415cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4167a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
41728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
41874c3cbe3SAl Viro
419d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
420764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
42187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
422d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
429fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
430fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
43102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
432fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
433fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
434fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
435fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
436c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
437fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
439fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
440fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
446c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
457abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
458abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
459ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
460554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
461041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
462abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
463abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
464abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
465abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
466abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
467abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
468abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
469abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
470abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
471abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
472abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
473abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
476b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
477b58c3584SRik van Riel
478fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
480b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
481fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
483fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
486fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
48911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
49011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
49111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
49211d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
49311d4afd4SVincent Guittot
49476504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
49576504793SThara Gopinath	bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure"
49676504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
49776504793SThara Gopinath
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5002813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5193903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
52519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5272813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
53919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
541f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
55119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
56019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
568eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
569eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
570eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
571eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
572eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
573eb414681SJohannes Weiner
574eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
575eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
576eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
577eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
578eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5792ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5802ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5812ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5822ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
583c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
584eb414681SJohannes Weiner
585eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
586eb414681SJohannes Weiner
587e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
588e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
589e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
590e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
591e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
592e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
593428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
594428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
595e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5967b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5977b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5987b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6095c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6105c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
611414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6122c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6135c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6145c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6155c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6162c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6182c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6192c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6205c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6210af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
622c903ff83SMike Travis
623de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
624de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
625de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
626de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
628f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
629a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
642a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
646f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
647f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
648f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
64943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
650f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
651f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
652f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
653f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
65443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
655794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
656794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
657*550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
658*550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
659f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
660361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
661794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
667f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
668f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
669f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
670f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
671f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
672794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
673794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
674794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6772240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
68023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
681361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
68223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
68323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
68423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
68523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
68623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
68723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
68823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
68923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
69023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
69123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
69223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
69323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
69423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
69523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
69623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
69723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
69823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
69923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7005e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7015e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
70223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
70423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
70523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
70623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
70723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
70823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
70923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
711f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
712f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
713427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
714427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
715f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
716427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
717f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
718f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
719f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
720f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
721f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
722427934b8SPetr Mladek
723f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
724427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
725427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
726427934b8SPetr Mladek
727427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
728427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
729427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
730427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
731427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
732427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
733427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
734427934b8SPetr Mladek
7355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
74138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
74238ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
74338ff87f7SStephen Boyd
74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
76669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
76769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
76869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
76969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
77069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
77169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
77269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
77369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
77469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
77569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
77669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
77769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
77869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
77969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
78069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
804be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
80572b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
80672b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
80772b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
80872b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
80972b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
81072b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
81172b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
81272b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
81372b252aeSMel Gorman
814c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8153a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
816c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
81772b252aeSMel Gorman#
818be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
819be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
820be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
821be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
822be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
823be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
824be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
825be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
826be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
827be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8376d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8466f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8476f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8486f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
84923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8506341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8512bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
852ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
85323964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
857d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
858da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
85945ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
860ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
861ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
862ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
86323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
86423964d2dSLi Zefan
8653e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
8663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
8673e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
868c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
869a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
8703e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
87179bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
87200f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
873a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
87400f0b825SBalbir Singh
875c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
8762d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
877c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
878a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
879c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
88084c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
88184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
88284c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
88384c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
88484c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8882bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
889a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8932bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
898e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9027baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
905da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
911e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9127c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
913a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9147c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9157c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9167c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9177c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9187c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9197c941438SDhaval Giani
9207c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9217c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9227c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9237c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9247c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9257c941438SDhaval Giani
926ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
927ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
928ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
929ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
930ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
931ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
932ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
933ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
934ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
935d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
936ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9377c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9387c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9397c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9407c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9417c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9427c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
94332bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9447c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9457c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
946d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9477c941438SDhaval Giani
9487c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9497c941438SDhaval Giani
9502480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9512480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9522480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9532480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9542480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9552480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9562480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9572480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9582480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9592480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9602480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9612480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9622480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
9632480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
9642480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9652480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
9662480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
9672480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
9682480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
9692480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9702480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
9712480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9726bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
9816cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
98839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
98939d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
99039d3e758SParav Pandit	help
99139d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
99239d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
99339d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
99439d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
99539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
99639d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
99739d3e758SParav Pandit
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1004489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1005489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1006489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1007489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1008489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1013afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1024afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1027e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1033afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1035afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
103989e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
104089e9b9e0STejun Heo
10416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10596546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10606546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
106430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
106530070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1066483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1067483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
106830070984SDaniel Mack	help
106930070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
107030070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
107130070984SDaniel Mack
107230070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
107330070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
107430070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
107530070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
107630070984SDaniel Mack
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
107823b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
108023b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
108323b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
108423b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
108523b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
108973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
109073b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
109173b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
109273b35147SArnd Bergmann
109323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1094c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10972813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1099c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1100c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1101c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1102c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1103c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1104c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
110758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
110858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
110917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
111058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
111158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
111258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
111358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1114769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1115769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1116660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1117769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1118769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1119769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1120769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1121769071acSAndrei Vagin
1122ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1123ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
112517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1126ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1127ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1128614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1129ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1130aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
113119c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11325673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1133aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1134aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1135aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1136e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1137e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1138d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1139d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1140d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1141e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1142aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1143aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
114474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11459bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
114617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
114774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
114812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1149692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
115074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
115174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1152d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1153d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
115517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1156d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1157d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1158d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1159d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11625cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
11635cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
11645cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
11655cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
11665cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
11675cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
11685cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
11695cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
11705cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
11715cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11725cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
11735cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11745091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11755091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11765091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11775091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11785091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11795091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11805091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11815091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11825091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11835091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11845091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11855091faa4SMike Galbraith
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11875d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12097af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12105d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12247af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
122626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1236f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1240f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1241f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1242f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12438c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1244f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1245f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1246f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1247f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1248f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1249f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1250f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1251c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1252c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1253dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1254dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1255c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1256c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
125776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
125876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
12592910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
126076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
126176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
126276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
12630947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
126485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
12650947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
126676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
126776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
126876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1269877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1270877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
12712cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1272877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1273877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
127415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1275877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1276877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1277877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1278877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1279877417e6SArnd Bergmann
128015f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
128115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
128215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1283c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
128415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
128515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1286c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12875d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
128815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1289c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1290ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1291ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1292c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1293877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1294877417e6SArnd Bergmann
12955d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
12975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
12995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13055d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1309e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1310e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13128b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13138b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13148b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13230847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13240847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13250847062aSRandy Dunlap
1326657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1327657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1328657a5209SMike Frysinger
1329657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1330657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1331657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1332657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1333657a5209SMike Frysinger
1334657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1335657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1336657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1337657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1338657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1339657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1340657a5209SMike Frysinger
1341657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1342657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1343657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1344657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1345657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1346657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1347657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1348657a5209SMike Frysinger
1349657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1350657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1351657a5209SMike Frysinger
1352f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1353f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1354f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1355f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13566a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1358f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1359f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1366ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13682813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1369ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1370ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1371ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1372ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13732813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13742813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13752813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13762813893fSIulia Manda	help
13772813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13782813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13792813893fSIulia Manda
13802813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13812813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13822813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13832813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13842813893fSIulia Manda
13852813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13862813893fSIulia Manda
1387f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1388f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1389a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1390a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1391f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1392f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1393f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1394f6187769SFabian Frederick
1395f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1396f6187769SFabian Frederick
13976af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1400a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14046af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14066af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1409d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1410d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1411d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1412d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1413d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1414d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1415d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1416d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1417d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1418d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1419d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1420baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1421baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1422baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1423baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1424baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1425baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1426baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1427baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1428baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1429baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1430baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1431baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1432baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1433baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1434baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1435baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1436baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1437d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1438d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14396a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
144074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1441d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1442d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1443d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1444d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1445d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1446d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1447d59745ceSMatt Mackall
144842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
144942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
145042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
145142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
145242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1453c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1455c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1456c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1457c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1458c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1459c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1460c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1461c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1462c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1463708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1464046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1465708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1467708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1468708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1469708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14708761f1abSRalf Baechle
1471e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14738761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
147415f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1475e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1476e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1477e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1478e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1479e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1491bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1497bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1498bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1499bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1500bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1501bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
150203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
150303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
150462b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
150503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
150603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
150703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
150803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
150903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1517fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15186a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1519fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1520fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1521fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1522fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1523fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1524fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1525fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1526b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1528b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1529b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1530b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1531b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1532b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1533b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1534b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1535e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1537e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1538e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1539e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1540e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1541e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1542e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1543e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1555ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1557ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1558ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1559ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1560ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1561ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1562ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
15632b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
15642b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1565561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
15662b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
15672b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
15682b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
15692b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
15702b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
15712b188cc1SJens Axboe
1572d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1573d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1574d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1575d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1576d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1577d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1578d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1579d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1580d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1581d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
15825a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
15835a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
15845a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
15855a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
15865a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
15875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
15885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
15895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
15905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
15915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
15925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
15935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
15945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
15955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
15965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
15975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1632a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1650fc611f47SKP Singh
1651fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1652fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
16534edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1654fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1655fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1656fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1657fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1658fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1659fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1660fc611f47SKP Singh
1661fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1662fc611f47SKP Singh
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1666bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
167281c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
167381c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
167481c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1675290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1676290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1677290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1678290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1679290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1680290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1681290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
168281c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
168381c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
168481c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
168581c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
16933ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
16943ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
16953ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
169670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
169770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
169870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1699d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1700d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1701d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1702d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1703d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1704d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1705d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1706d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1707d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1708d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1709d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1710d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1711d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1712d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1713d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1714d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1715d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1716d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1717d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1718d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1719d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1720d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1721d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17226befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17236befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17245d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17256befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17266befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17276befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17286befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17296befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17306befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1731cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17320793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1733018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1734018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1736906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1737906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1738906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1739906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1740906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1741ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1742424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1743ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1744ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1745ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1746ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1747ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
174857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17490793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1750cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
175157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1752392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1753cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1754e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
175583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
17560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
175757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
175857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
17590793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1760dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
176157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
176257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
176357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
176457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
17650793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
17660793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
17670793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
17680793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
17690793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17700793a61dSThomas Gleixner
177157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1772dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
177357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17740793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17750793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17760793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17770793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17780793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1779906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1780906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1781906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1782cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1783906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1784906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1785906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1786906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1787906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1788906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1789906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1790906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1791906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17920793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17930793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1794f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1795f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1797f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17982aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17992aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18012aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1802f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
180341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
180441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1806f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
180741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
180841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
180941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
181041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
181141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
181241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
18131663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
18141663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
18151663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
18161663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
18171663f26dSTejun Heo	help
18181663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
18191663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
18201663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
18211663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
18221663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
18231663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
18241663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
18251663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
18261663f26dSTejun Heo
1827b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1828b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1829b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1830b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1831b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1832b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1833b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1834692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1835b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1836b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1837b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1838b943c460SRandy Dunlap
183981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1841a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
184381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
184481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
184581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
184681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
184704385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
184881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
184981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
185034013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
185102f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
185281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
185381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
185481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1855ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
185681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
185781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
185881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
185981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
186081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
186102f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
186202f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
186381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
186481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
18656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
186681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
186781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
186837291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
186937291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
187037291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
187181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
187281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
187381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
18747660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
18757660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
18767660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
18777660a6fdSKees Cook	help
18787660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
18797660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
18807660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
18817660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
18827660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
18837660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
18847660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
18857660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
18867660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
18877660a6fdSKees Cook
1888c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1889c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1890210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1891c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1892c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1893210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1894c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1895c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1896c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
18972482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
18982482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
18992482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
19002482ddecSKees Cook	help
19012482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19022482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
190392bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19042482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
19052482ddecSKees Cook
1906e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1907e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1908e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1909e900a918SDan Williams	help
1910e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1911e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1912e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1913e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1914e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1915e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1916e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1917e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1918e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1919e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1920e900a918SDan Williams
1921e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1922e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1923e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1924e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1925e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1926e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1927e900a918SDan Williams
1928e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1929e900a918SDan Williams
1930345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1931345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1932b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1933345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1934345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
193592bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1936345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1937345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1938345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1939345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1940345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1941ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1942ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19436a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1944ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1945ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1946ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19473903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1948ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1949ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1950ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1951ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1952ea637639SJie Zhang
1953ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1954ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1955ea637639SJie Zhang
1956ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1957ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1958ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1959ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1960ea637639SJie Zhang
1961ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1962ea637639SJie Zhang
1963091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1964091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1965091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1966091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1967091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1968d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1969091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1970091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1971091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1972091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1973091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1974091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
197582c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1976091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1977091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1978091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1979091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
198082c04ff8SPeter Foley
1981125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1982b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1983125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1984125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1985125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1986125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
19875f87f112SIngo Molnar#
19885f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
19895f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
19905f87f112SIngo Molnar#
199197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
19925f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
199397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
19941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19961572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
19971572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1998ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
19996341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2000ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2006c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2007c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2008c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2009c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
201066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
201211097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20310b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20320b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2033826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2034826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2035826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2036826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
203791e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
203891e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
203991e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2040826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2046f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2047f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
205119c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
20600d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20692ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
20702ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
20712ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
20722ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
20732ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
20742ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
20752ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
20762ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
207756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
207856067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
207956067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
208056067812SArd Biesheuvel
20811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2092106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2093106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2094c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2095106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2096106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2097106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2098cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2099106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2100228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2101228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2102228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2103228c37ffSDavid Howells
210449fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
210549fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
210649fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
210749fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
210849fcf732SDavid Howells
2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2114106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2115106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2116106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2117106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2118106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2119106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2121d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2122d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2123d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2124d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2125d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2126d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2127d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2128d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2129d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2130d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2131d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2133ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2134ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2135ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2136ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2137ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2138ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2139ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2140ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2141ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2142ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2143ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2144ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2145ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2146ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2147ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2148ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2149ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2150ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2151ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2152ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2153ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2154ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2155ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2156ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2157ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2158ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2159ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2160ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2161ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2162ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2163ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
216422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
216522753674SMichal Marek	string
216622753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
216722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
216822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
216922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
217022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
217122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
217222753674SMichal Marek
2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2174beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2175beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2176beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2177b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2178b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2179beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2180b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2181beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2182b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2183b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2184beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2185b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2186b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2187beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2188b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2189b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2190b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2191beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2192beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2193beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2194beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2195beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2196beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2197beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2198beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2199beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2200beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2201beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2202beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2203beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2204beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2205beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2206beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2207beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2208beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2209beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22103d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22113d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22123d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22133d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22143d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22153d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22163d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22173d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22183d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22193d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22203d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22213d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22223d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2223efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2224efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2225efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	default y if X86
2226efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	help
2227efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
2228efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
2229efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2230efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2231efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2232efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2233efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2234efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
2235efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2236efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2237efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  your module is.
2238efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada
2239dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2240dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2241d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada	depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2242dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2243dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2244dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2245dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2246dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2247dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2248dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2249dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2250dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2251dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2252dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2253f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2254dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22551518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22561518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22571518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
22581518c633SQuentin Perret	help
22591518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
22601518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
22611518c633SQuentin Perret
22621518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
22631518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
22641518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
22651518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
22661518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
22671518c633SQuentin Perret
22680b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
22690b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
22706c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
22716c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
22726c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
22736c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
227498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
227598a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
227698a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
22775f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
22785f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
227998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
228098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2281692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
228298a79d6aSRusty Russell
22833a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2284e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2285e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2286e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2287e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
228816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
228916295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
229016295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
229116295becSSteffen Klassert
22924520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
22934520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
22944520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
22954520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
22964520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
22974520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
22984520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
22994520c6a4SDavid Howells
23006beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2301e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23020ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23030ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23040ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2305e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2306e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23071bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23081bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23097303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23107303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23117303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23127303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23151bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23161bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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