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 656e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/rustc-version.sh $(RUSTC)) 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 811a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 829371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 83f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 84f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 86b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 87b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 89f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 90c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 100587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 103f2f6a8e8SMark 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) 104587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1051aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1061aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1071aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 108534bd703SAlexandre 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) 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1105cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1112d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1125cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 113eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 114eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 115eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 11651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 11751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 11851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 119613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 120613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 121613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 122613fe169SNathan Chancellor 123b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 124b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 125b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 126e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 127fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 128e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 12910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1301dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1311dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 132c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 133c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 134c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 135c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 136c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 137c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 138c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 139c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 140c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 141c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 142ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 154dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 155dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 15834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1604bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1614bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 162ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1634bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1644bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1654bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1664bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1674bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1694bb16672SJiri Slaby 1704bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1714bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1724bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1734bb16672SJiri Slaby 1743fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1753fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 176b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1773fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1783fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 180e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 181e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 182e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1833fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 184e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 185e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1863fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1873fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1883fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1893fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1903fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 191d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 192d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 193fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 194d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 195d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 196d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 197d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 198d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 199d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 200d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 212aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 214ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 215aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 216aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 219aaebf433SRyan Anderson 220aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 222aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 224aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2250f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 231aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2329afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2339afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2349afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2359afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2369afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2379afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2389afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2399afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2409afb719eSLaura Abbott 2412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2503ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin 2537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 25948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 26048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 26148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 262f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 264f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 26848f7ddf7SNick 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 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 28230d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2990a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3080a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3100a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3123ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3133ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3143ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3153ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3163ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3173ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3183ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3193ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3207472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3217472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3227472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3233ebe1243SLasse Collin 3243ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3253ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3263ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3273ebe1243SLasse Collin 3287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 333681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 336e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 337e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 338e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 339e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 340e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 341e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 342e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 343e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 344e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 345e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 346e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 347e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 34848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 34948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 35048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 35148f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 35248f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 35348f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 35448f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 35548f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 35648f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 35748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 358f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 359f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 360f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 361f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 362f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 363f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 364f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 365f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 366f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 367f16466afSVasily Gorbik 36830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 36930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 370ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 371ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 372ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 373ada4ab7aSChris Down help 374ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 375ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 376ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 377ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 378ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 379ada4ab7aSChris Down 380bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 381bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 382bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 383bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 384bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 385bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 386bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 387bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 388bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 391a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 404a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 405a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 406a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 407a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 408a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 409a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4100cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4110cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4120cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4130cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 41619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 417a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 422b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 430bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 431bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 432bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 433bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 434bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 435bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 436c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 437c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 438c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 439c73be61cSDavid Howells help 440c73be61cSDavid Howells 441c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 442c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 443c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 444c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 445c73be61cSDavid Howells 446c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 447c73be61cSDavid Howells 448226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 449226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 450226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 451226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 452226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 453226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 454226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 455a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 456226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 457226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 45869369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4597374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4607374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 46169369a70SJosh Triplett help 46269369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 46369369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 46469369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 46569369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 46669369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 46769369a70SJosh Triplett 4681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 470804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 474cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 475cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4777a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4787a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4797a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 481cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4827a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 48328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 48474c3cbe3SAl Viro 485d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 486764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 487b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 48887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 489d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 496fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 49702382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 502c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 512c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 524abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 52524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 526554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 527041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 528abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 52924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 530abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 531abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 533abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 534abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 535abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 536abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 537abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 538abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 539abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 541abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 542b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 543b58c3584SRik van Riel 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 545fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 546b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 547fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 548fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 549fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 550fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 551fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 552fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 553fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 554fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 55511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 55611d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 55711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 55811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 55911d4afd4SVincent Guittot 560d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 56198eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 562fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 563fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 56476504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 56598eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 56698eb401dSValentin Schneider help 567d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 568d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 56998eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 570d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 571d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 57298eb401dSValentin Schneider 57398eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 57498eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 57598eb401dSValentin Schneider 57698eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 577d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 57876504793SThara Gopinath 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5812813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6003903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 60619c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6082813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 62019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 622f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 63219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 64119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 649eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 650eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 65198dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 652eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 653eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 654eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 655eb414681SJohannes Weiner 656eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 657eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 658eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 659eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 660eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6612ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6622ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6632ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6642ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 665c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 666eb414681SJohannes Weiner 667eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 668eb414681SJohannes Weiner 669e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 670e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 671e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 672e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 673e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 674e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 675428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 676428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 677e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6807b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6817b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6827b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6837b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6847b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6857b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6867b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6877b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6887b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 689391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 690391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6915c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6925c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 693414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6942c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6965c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6975c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6982c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6992c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7002c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7012c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7025c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7030af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 704c903ff83SMike Travis 7051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 706f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 707a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 720a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 724f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 725f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 726f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 72743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 728f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 729f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 730f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 731f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 73243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 733794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 734794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7351c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 736f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 737361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 738794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 744f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 745f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 746f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 747f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 748f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 749794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 750794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 751794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7542240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 757320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 758361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7710f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7775e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7785e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78833701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 78933701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 79033701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79133701557SChris Down help 79233701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79333701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 79433701557SChris Down 79533701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 79633701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 79733701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 79833701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 79933701557SChris Down 80033701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80133701557SChris Down 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 871be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 87472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 87672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 87772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 87872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 87972b252aeSMel Gorman bool 88072b252aeSMel Gorman 881c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8823a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 883c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 884dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 885dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 886158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 887dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 888dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 8893e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 8900da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 8913e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8925a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8935a41237aSLinus Torvalds 894f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 895f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 8968e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 897f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 89802153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 89902153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 900a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 901a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 902a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 903a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 90402153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 905a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 906a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 907a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 908a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 909a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 91072b252aeSMel Gorman# 911be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 912be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 913be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 914be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 915be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 926554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9306d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9356f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9366f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 94221c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 94321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 94421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 94523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9472bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 948ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 953d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 954da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 95545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 956ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 957ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 958ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 96023964d2dSLi Zefan 9613e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9623e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9633e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9646a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9656a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9666a010a49STejun Heo help 9676a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9686a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9696a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9706a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9716a010a49STejun Heo 9726a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9736a010a49STejun Heo 974c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9763e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 97779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 97821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 97900f0b825SBalbir Singh help 980a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 98100f0b825SBalbir Singh 982e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 983e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 984c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 985e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 986e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 987e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 988e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 989e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 990e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 991e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 992e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 993e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 994e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 995e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 996e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 997fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 99884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1003a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10072bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1012e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10167baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1019da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1025e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10267c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1027a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10287c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10297c941438SDhaval Giani help 10307c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10317c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10327c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10337c941438SDhaval Giani 10347c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1035e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1036e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1037e179e80cSTejun Heo 10387c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10397c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10407c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1041e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10427c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10437c941438SDhaval Giani 1044ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1045ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1046ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1047ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1048ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1050ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1051ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1052ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1053d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1054ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10557c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10567c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10577c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10587c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10597c941438SDhaval Giani help 10607c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 106132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10627c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10637c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1064d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10657c941438SDhaval Giani 106681951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 106781951366STejun Heo bool 106881951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 106981951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 107081951366STejun Heo default y 107181951366STejun Heo 10727c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10737c941438SDhaval Giani 1074af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1075af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1076af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1077af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10782480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10792480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10802480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10812480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10822480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10832480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10842480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10852480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10862480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10872480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10882480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10892480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10902480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10912480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10922480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10932480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10942480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10952480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10962480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10972480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10982480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10992480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11096cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 111298076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 111639d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 111739d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 111839d3e758SParav Pandit help 111939d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 112039d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 112139d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 112239d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 112339d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 112439d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 112539d3e758SParav Pandit 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1132489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1133489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1134489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1135489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1136489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1141afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1152afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1155e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1161afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1163afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11641abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11651abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11661abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 11671abab1baSChen Ridong default n 11681abab1baSChen Ridong help 11691abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 11701abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 11711abab1baSChen Ridong which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 11721abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 11731abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 11741abab1baSChen Ridong 11751abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 11761abab1baSChen Ridong 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 118089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 118189e9b9e0STejun Heo 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12006546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12016546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 120530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 120630070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1207483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1208483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 120930070984SDaniel Mack help 121030070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 121130070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 121230070984SDaniel Mack 121330070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 121430070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 121530070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 121630070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 121730070984SDaniel Mack 1218a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1219a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1220a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1221a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1222a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1223a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1224a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1225a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1226a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1227a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1228a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1229a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1230a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1231a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 123323b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 123523b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 123823b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 123923b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 124023b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 124473b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124573b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 124673b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 124773b35147SArnd Bergmann 124823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1249c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12522813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12536a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1254c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1255c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1256c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1257c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1258c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1259c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 126258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 126358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 126417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 126558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 126658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 126758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 126858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1269769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1270769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1271660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1272769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1273769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1274769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1275769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1276769071acSAndrei Vagin 1277ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1278ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 128017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1281ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1282ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1283614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1284ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1285aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 128619c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12875673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1288aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1289aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1290aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1291e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1292e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1293d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1294d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1295d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1296e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1297aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1298aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 129974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13009bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 130117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 130274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 130312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1304692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 130574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 130674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1307d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1308d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 131017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1311d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1312d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1313d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1314d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13175cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13185cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 131930341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13205cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1321bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13225cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13235cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13245cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13255cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13265cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13275cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13285cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13295cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13305cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13315091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13325091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13335091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13345091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13355091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13365091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13375091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13385091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13395091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13405091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13415091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13425091faa4SMike Galbraith 13437af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13447af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 134526b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13467af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13477af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13487af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13497af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13507af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13517af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13527af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13537af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1355f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1356f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1357f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1358f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1359f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1360f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1361f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13628c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1363f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1364f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1365f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1366f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1367f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1368f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1369f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1370c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1371c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1372dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1373dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1374c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1375c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 137676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 137776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1378a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 137976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 138076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 138176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13820947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 138385c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13840947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 138576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 138676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 138776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1388b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1389b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1390b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13916ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1392b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1393b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1394b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1395b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1396b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1397b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1398b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1399b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1400b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1401a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1402a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1403a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1404a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1405a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1406a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1407a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1408a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1409a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1410a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1411a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1412a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1413a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1414a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1415a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1416a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1417a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1418a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1419a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14201274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14211274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14221274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14231274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14241274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14251274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14261274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14271274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14281274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14291274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1430877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1431877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14322cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1433877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1434877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 143515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1436877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1437877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1438877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1439877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1440877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1441c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 144215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1443c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1444ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1445ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1446c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1447877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1448877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14495d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14595d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1463e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1464e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14668b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14678b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14688b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 147759612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 147859612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 147959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 148059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1481e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1482e1789d7cSXin Li 1483e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1484e1789d7cSXin Li string 1485e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1486e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1487e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 148859612b24SNathan Chancellor 14890847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14900847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14910847062aSRandy Dunlap 1492657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1493657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1494657a5209SMike Frysinger 1495657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1496657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1497657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1498657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1499657a5209SMike Frysinger 1500657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1501657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1502657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1503657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1504657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1505657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1506657a5209SMike Frysinger 1507657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1508657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1509657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1510657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1511657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1512657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1513657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1514657a5209SMike Frysinger 1515657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1516657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1517657a5209SMike Frysinger 15186a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1520f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1521f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1528ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15302813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1531ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1532ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1533ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1534ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15352813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15362813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15372813893fSIulia Manda default y 15382813893fSIulia Manda help 15392813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15402813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15412813893fSIulia Manda 15422813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15432813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15442813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15452813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15462813893fSIulia Manda 15472813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15482813893fSIulia Manda 1549f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1550f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1551cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1552a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1553f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1554f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1555f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1556f6187769SFabian Frederick 1557f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1558f6187769SFabian Frederick 15596af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1562a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1582baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1583baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1584baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1585baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1586baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1587baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1588baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1589baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1590baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1591baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1592baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1593baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1594baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1595baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1596baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1597baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1598baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1599d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1600d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 160274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1603d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1604d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1605d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1606d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1607d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1608d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1609d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1610c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1612c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1613c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1614c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1615c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1616c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1617c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1618c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1619c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1620708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1621046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1622708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1624708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1625708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1626708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16278761f1abSRalf Baechle 1628e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16308761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 163115f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1632e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1633e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1634e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1635e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1636e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 163727021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 163827021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 164027021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16463f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1648bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1654bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1655bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1656bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1657bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1658bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1666fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1668fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1669fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1670fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1671fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1672fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1673fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1674fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1675b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1677b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1678b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1679b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1680b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1681b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1682b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1683b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1684e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1686e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1687e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1688e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1689e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1690e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1691e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1692e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1704ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1706ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1707ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1708ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1709ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1710ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1711ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17122b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17132b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1714561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17152b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17162b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17172b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17182b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17192b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17202b188cc1SJens Axboe 17211802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17221802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17231802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17241802656eSJens Axboe help 17251802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17261802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17271802656eSJens Axboe 17281802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17291802656eSJens Axboe 17301802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17311802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17321802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17331802656eSJens Axboe 1734d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1735d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1736d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1737d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1738d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1739d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1740d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1741d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1742d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1743d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1756a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1757a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1758a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1759a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1760a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1761a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1762a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1763a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1764a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1765a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1766a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1767a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1768a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1769a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1770a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1771a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1772a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1773a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1774a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1775a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1776a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1777a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1778a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1779a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1780a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1781a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1782a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1783a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1784a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1785a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1786a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1787a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1788a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1789a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1790a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1791a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1792a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1793a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1794a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1795a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1796a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1806d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1807d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1808d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1809d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1810d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1811d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1812d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1813d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 181430f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 181530f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 181630f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 181730f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 181830f3bb09SZhen Lei help 181930f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 182030f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 182130f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 182230f3bb09SZhen Lei 182330f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 182430f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 182530f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 182630f3bb09SZhen Lei 1827d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1828d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1829d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1830d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1831d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1832d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1833bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1834bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1835bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1836bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1837d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1838d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1839d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1840d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1841d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1842d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1843bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1844d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1845d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1846d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1847d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1848d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1849d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1850d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1851d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18523ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18533ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 185570216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 185670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 185770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1858cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1860018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1861018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18632aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18642aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18652aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18662aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 187257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18730793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1874cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 187557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1876392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1877cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1878e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18790793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 188057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 188157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18820793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1883dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 188457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 188557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 188657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 188757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18880793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18890793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18900793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18910793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18920793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18930793a61dSThomas Gleixner 189457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1895dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 189657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18970793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18980793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19000793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19010793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1902906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1903906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1904906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1905cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1906906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1907906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1908906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1909906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1910906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1911906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1912906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1913906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1914906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19150793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1917091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1918091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1919091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1920091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1921091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1922d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1923091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1924091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1926091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 192982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 193482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1935125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1936b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1937125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1938125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1939f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1940125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19412f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19422f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19432f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19442f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19452f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 1946f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 19472f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1948c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19494c66f830SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || RUSTC_VERSION >= 107900 && HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 1950ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 1951af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 1952f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 195393e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 19542f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19552f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19562f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19572f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19582f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19592f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19602f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19622f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19632f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19672f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19692f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19705134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 19715134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 19725134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 19732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19742f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19762f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19779e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 19789e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678). It can be removed when 19799e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # the minimum version is upgraded past that (0.69.1 already fixed the issue). 1980aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 19812f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19825f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19835f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19845f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19855f87f112SIngo Molnar# 198697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19875f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 1988*a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 198997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 199089cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 199189cde455SEric DeVolder 19921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19941572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19951572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1996ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19976341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19981c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1999ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2000c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2001c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2002c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2003c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 200473b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20056c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 200698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 200798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 200898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20095f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20105f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 201198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 201298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2013692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 201498a79d6aSRusty Russell 20153a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2016e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2017e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2018e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2019e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 202016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 202116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 202216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 202316295becSSteffen Klassert 20244520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20254520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20264520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20274520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20284520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20294520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20304520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20314520c6a4SDavid Howells 20326beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2033e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20340ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20350ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20360ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20374ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20384ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 20394ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2040e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2041e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20421bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20431bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20447303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20457303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20467303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20477303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20487303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20497303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20501bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20511bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2052