1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 129f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 132b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 133b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 134b688f369SKees Cook 13547cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 13647cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 13747cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 138613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 139613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 140613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 141613fe169SNathan Chancellor 142b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 143b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 144b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 145e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 146fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 147e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 14810916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1491dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1501dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 151c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 152c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 153c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 154c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 155c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 156c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 157c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 158c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 159c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 160c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 161ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 173dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 174dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 17734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1794bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1804bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 181ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1824bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1834bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1844bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1854bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1864bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1874bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1884bb16672SJiri Slaby 1894bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby 1933fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1943fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 195b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1963fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1973fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 199e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 200e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 201e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2023fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 203e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 204e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2053fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2063fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2073fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2083fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2093fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 210d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 211d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 212fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 213d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 214d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 215d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 216d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 217d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 218d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 219d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 230aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 231aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 232aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 233ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 234aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 235aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2366e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 238aaebf433SRyan Anderson 239aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 241aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2426e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 243aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2440f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 250aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2519afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2529afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2539afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2549afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2559afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2569afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2579afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2589afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2599afb719eSLaura Abbott 2602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2693ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2703ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2713ebe1243SLasse Collin 2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 27848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 27948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 28048f7ddf7SNick Terrell 281f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 282f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 283f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3107dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3180a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 32230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3270a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3280a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3290a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3313ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3323ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3333ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3343ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3353ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3363ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3373ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3383ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3397472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3407472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3417472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3423ebe1243SLasse Collin 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin 3477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3497dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3510a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 352681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 355e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 356e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 357e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 358e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 359e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 360e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 361e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 362e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 364e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 36748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 36848f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 36948f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 37048f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 37148f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 37248f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 37348f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 37448f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 37548f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 37648f7ddf7SNick Terrell 377f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 378f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 379f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 380f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 381f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 382f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 383f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 384f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 385f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 386f16466afSVasily Gorbik 38730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 38830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 389ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 390ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 391ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 392ada4ab7aSChris Down help 393ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 394ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 395ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 396ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 397ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 398ada4ab7aSChris Down 399bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 400bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 401bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 402bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 403bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 404bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 405bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 406bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 407bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 410a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 423a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 424a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 425a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 426a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 427a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 428a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4290cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4300cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4310cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4320cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 43519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 436a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 441b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 449bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 450bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 451bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 452bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 453bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 454bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 455c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 456c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 457c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 458c73be61cSDavid Howells help 459c73be61cSDavid Howells 460c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 461c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 462c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 463c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 464c73be61cSDavid Howells 465c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 466c73be61cSDavid Howells 467226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 468226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 469226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 470226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 471226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 472226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 473226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 474a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 475226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 476226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 47769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4787374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4797374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 48069369a70SJosh Triplett help 48169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 48269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 48369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 48469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 48569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 48669369a70SJosh Triplett 4871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 489804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 493cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 494cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4967a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4977a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4987a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 500cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5017a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 50228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50374c3cbe3SAl Viro 504d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 505764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 506b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 50787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 508d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51602382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 518fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 521c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 531c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 542abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 543abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54424a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 545554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 546041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 547abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 54824a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 549abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 559abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 561b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 562b58c3584SRik van Riel 563fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 564fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 565b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 567fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 568fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 571fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 572fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 573fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57411d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57511d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 57711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 57811d4afd4SVincent Guittot 579d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 58098eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 581fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 582fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58498eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58598eb401dSValentin Schneider help 586d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 587d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 589d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 590d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider 59298eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59398eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59498eb401dSValentin Schneider 59598eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 596d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 59776504793SThara Gopinath 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6002813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6193903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6272813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 63919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 641f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 65119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 66019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 668eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 669eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 67098dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 673eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 677eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 678eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 679eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6802ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6812ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6822ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6832ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 684c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 685eb414681SJohannes Weiner 686eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner 688e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 689e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 690e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 691e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 692e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 694428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 695428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 696e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6977b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6987b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7077b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 708391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 709391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7105c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7115c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 712*97577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7132c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7145c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7155c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7165c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7182c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7192c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7215c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7220af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 723c903ff83SMike Travis 7241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 725f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 726a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 739a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 743f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 744f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 745f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 748f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 749f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 750f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 75143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 752794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 753794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7541c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 755f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 756361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 757794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 765f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 767f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 769794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 770794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7732240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 776320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 777361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7900f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7965e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7975e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80733701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 80833701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 80933701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 81033701557SChris Down help 81133701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 81233701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81333701557SChris Down 81433701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81533701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81633701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81733701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 81833701557SChris Down 81933701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 82033701557SChris Down 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 890be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 89172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 89272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 89372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 89472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 89872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 89972b252aeSMel Gorman 900c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9013a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 902c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 903dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 904dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 905158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 906dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 907dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9083e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9090da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9103e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9115a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9125a41237aSLinus Torvalds 913f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 914f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9158e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 916f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 91702153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 91802153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 919a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 920a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 921a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 922a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 92302153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 924a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 925a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 926a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 927a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 928a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 92972b252aeSMel Gorman# 930be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 931be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 932be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 933be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 934be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 942be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 945554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9496d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9536f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9586f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9596f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9606f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 96121c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 96221c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 96321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 96423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9656341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9662bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 967ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 96823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 972d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 973da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 97445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 975ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 976ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 977ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 97823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 97923964d2dSLi Zefan 9803e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9813e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9823e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9836a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9846a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9856a010a49STejun Heo help 9866a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9876a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9886a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9896a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9906a010a49STejun Heo 9916a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9926a010a49STejun Heo 993c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 994a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9953e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99721c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 99800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 999a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 100000f0b825SBalbir Singh 1001e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1002e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1003c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1004e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1005e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1006e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1007e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1008e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1009e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1010e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1011e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1014e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1016fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 101784c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10212bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1022a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10262bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1031e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10357baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1038da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1044e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10457c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1046a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10477c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10487c941438SDhaval Giani help 10497c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10507c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10517c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10527c941438SDhaval Giani 10537c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1054e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1055e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1056e179e80cSTejun Heo 10577c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10587c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10597c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1060e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10617c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10627c941438SDhaval Giani 1063ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1064ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1065ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1066ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1067ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1068ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1069ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1070ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1071ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1072d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1073ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10747c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10757c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10767c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10777c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10787c941438SDhaval Giani help 10797c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 108032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10817c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10827c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1083d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10847c941438SDhaval Giani 108581951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 108681951366STejun Heo bool 108781951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 108881951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 108981951366STejun Heo default y 109081951366STejun Heo 10917c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10927c941438SDhaval Giani 1093af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1094af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1095af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1096af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10972480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10982480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10992480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11002480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11012480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11022480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11032480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11042480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11052480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11062480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11072480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11162480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11172480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11182480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11286cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 113198076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 113639d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 113739d3e758SParav Pandit help 113839d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 113939d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 114039d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 114139d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 114239d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 114339d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 114439d3e758SParav Pandit 1145b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1146b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1147e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1148b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1149b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1150b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1151b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1152b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1153b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1154b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1161489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1162489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1163489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1164489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1165489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1170afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1181afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1184e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1185bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1191afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1193afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11941abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11951abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11961abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 11971abab1baSChen Ridong default n 11981abab1baSChen Ridong help 11991abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12001abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1201dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1202dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12031abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12041abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12051abab1baSChen Ridong 12061abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12071abab1baSChen Ridong 12086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1210dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 121189e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 121289e9b9e0STejun Heo 12136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12316546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12326546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 123630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 123730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1238483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1239483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124030070984SDaniel Mack help 124130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 124230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 124330070984SDaniel Mack 124430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 124530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 124630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 124730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 124830070984SDaniel Mack 1249a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1250a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1251a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1252a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1253a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1254a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1255a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1256a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1257a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1258a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1259a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1260a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1261a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1262a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12636bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 126423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 126623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 126923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 127023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 127123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 127573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 127673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 127773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 127873b35147SArnd Bergmann 127923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1280c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12818dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12832813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12846a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1285c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1286c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1287c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1288c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1289c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1290c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 129358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 129458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 129517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 129658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 129758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 129858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 129958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1300769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1301769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1302660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1303769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1304769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1305769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1306769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1307769071acSAndrei Vagin 1308ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1309ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 131117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1312ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1313ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1314614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1315ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1316aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 131719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13185673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1319aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1320aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1321aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1322e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1323e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1324d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1325d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1326d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1327e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1328aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1329aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 133074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13319bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 133217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 133374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 133412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1335692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 133674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 133774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1338d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1339d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13408dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 134117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1342d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1343d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1344d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1345d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13468dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13485cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13495cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 135030341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13515cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1352bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13535cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13545cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13555cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13565cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13575cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13585cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13595cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13605cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13615cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13625091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13635091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13645091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13655091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13665091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13675091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13685091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13695091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13705091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13715091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13725091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13735091faa4SMike Galbraith 13747af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13757af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 137626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13777af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13787af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13797af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13807af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13817af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13827af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13837af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13847af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1386f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1387f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1388f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1389f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1390f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1391f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1392f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13938c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1394f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1395f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1396f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1397f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1398f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1399f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1400f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1401c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1402c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1403dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1404dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1405c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1406c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 140776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 140876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1409a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 141076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 141176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 141276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14130947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 141485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14150947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 141676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 141776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 141876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1419b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1420b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1421b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14226ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1423b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1424b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1425b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1426b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1427b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1428b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1429b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1430b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1431b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1432a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1433a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1434a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1435a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1436a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1437a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1438a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1439a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1440a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1441a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1442a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1443a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1444a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1445a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1447a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1448a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1449a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1450a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14511274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14521274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14531274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14541274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14551274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14561274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14571274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14581274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14591274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14601274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 146183c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 146283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 146383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 146483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 146583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 146683c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 146783c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1468877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1469877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14702cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1471877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1472877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 147315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1474877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1475877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1476877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1477877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1478877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1479c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 148015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1481c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1482ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1483ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1484c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1485877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1486877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14875d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14975d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1501e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1502e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15048b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15058b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15068b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 151559612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151659612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 151759612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151859612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1519e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1520e1789d7cSXin Li 1521e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1522e1789d7cSXin Li string 1523e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1524e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1525e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 152659612b24SNathan Chancellor 15270847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15280847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15290847062aSRandy Dunlap 1530657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1531657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1532657a5209SMike Frysinger 1533657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1534657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1535657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1536657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1537657a5209SMike Frysinger 1538657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1539657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1540657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1541657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1542657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1543657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1544657a5209SMike Frysinger 1545657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1546657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1547657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1548657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1549657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1550657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1551657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1552657a5209SMike Frysinger 1553657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1555657a5209SMike Frysinger 15566a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1558f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1559f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1566ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15682813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1569ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1570ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1571ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1572ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15732813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15742813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15752813893fSIulia Manda default y 15762813893fSIulia Manda help 15772813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15782813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15792813893fSIulia Manda 15802813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15812813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15822813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15832813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15842813893fSIulia Manda 15852813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15862813893fSIulia Manda 1587f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1588f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1589cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1590a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1591f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1592f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1593f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1594f6187769SFabian Frederick 1595f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1596f6187769SFabian Frederick 15976af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1600a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 16016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 16026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 16036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 16046af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 16056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 16066af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1620baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1621baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1622baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1623baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1624baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1625baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1626baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1627baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1628baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1629baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1630baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1631baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1632baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1633baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1634baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1635baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1636baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1637d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1638d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 164074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1641d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1642d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1643d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1644d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1645d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1646d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1647d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1648c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1650c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1651c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1652c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1653c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1654c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1655c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1656c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1657c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1658708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1659046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1660708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1662708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1663708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1664708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16658761f1abSRalf Baechle 1666e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16688761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 166915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1670e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1671e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1672e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1673e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1674e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 167527021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 167627021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 167827021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16843f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1686bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1692bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1693bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1694bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1695bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1696bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1704fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1706fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1707fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1708fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1709fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1710fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1711fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1712fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1713b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1715b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1716b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1717b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1718b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1719b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1720b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1721b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1722e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1724e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1725e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1726e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1727e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1728e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1729e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1730e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1742ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1744ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1745ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1746ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1747ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1748ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1749ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17502b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17512b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1752561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17532b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17542b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17552b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17562b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17572b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17582b188cc1SJens Axboe 17591802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17601802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17611802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17621802656eSJens Axboe help 17631802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17641802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17651802656eSJens Axboe 17661802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17671802656eSJens Axboe 17681802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17691802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17701802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17711802656eSJens Axboe 1772d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1773d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1774d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1775d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1776d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1777d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1778d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1779d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1780d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1781d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1794a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1795a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1796a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1823a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1824a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1825a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1826a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1827a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1828a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1829a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1838a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1839a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1840a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1841a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1842a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1843a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1844d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1845d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1846d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1847d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1848d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1849d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1850d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1851d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 185230f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 185330f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 185430f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 185530f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 185630f3bb09SZhen Lei help 185730f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 185830f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 185930f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 186030f3bb09SZhen Lei 186130f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 186230f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 186330f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 186430f3bb09SZhen Lei 1865d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1866d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1867d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1868d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1869d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1870d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1871bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1872bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1873bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1874bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1875d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1876d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1877d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1878d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1879d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1880d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1881bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1882d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1883d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1884d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18853ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18863ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18873ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 188870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 188970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 189070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1891cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18920793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1893018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1894018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18962aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18972aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18982aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18992aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1900906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1901906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1902906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1903906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1904906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 190557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1907cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 190857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1909392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1910cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1911e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19120793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 191357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 191457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19150793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1916dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 191757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 191857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 191957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 192057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19210793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19220793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19230793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19240793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19250793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 192757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1928dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 192957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19300793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19310793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19330793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1935906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1936906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1937906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1938cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1939906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1940906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1941906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1942906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1943906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1944906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1945906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1946906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1947906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19480793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1950091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1951091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1952091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1953091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1954091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1955d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1956091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1957091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1958091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1959091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1960091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1961091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 196282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1963091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1964091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1965091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1966091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 196782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1968125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1969b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1970125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1971125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1972f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1973125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19742f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19762f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1978ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 1979ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 1980f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 19812f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 19825daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 19838b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 1984ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 1985af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 1986f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 198793e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 19882f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19892f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19912f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19942f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19962f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19972f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19992f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20012f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20045134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20055134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20065134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20082f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20119e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2012c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2013c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2014c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2015c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2016aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20185f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20195f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20205f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20215f87f112SIngo Molnar# 202297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20235f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2024a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 202597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 202689cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 202789cde455SEric DeVolder 20281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20301572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20311572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2032ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20336341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20341c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2035ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2036c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2037c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2038c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2039c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 204073b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20416c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 204298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 204398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 204498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20455f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20465f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 204798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 204898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2049692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 205098a79d6aSRusty Russell 20513a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2052e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2053e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2054e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2055e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 205616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 205716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 205816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 205916295becSSteffen Klassert 20604520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20614520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20624520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20634520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20644520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20654520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20664520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20674520c6a4SDavid Howells 20686beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2069e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20700ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20710ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20720ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20734ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20744ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 20754ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2076e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2077e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20781bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20791bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20807303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20817303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20827303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20837303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20847303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20857303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20861bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20871bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2088