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 632f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 741a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 759371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 76f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 781a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 79b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 81f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 84587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86587f1701SNick Desaulniers 871aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 881aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 891aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90534bd703SAlexandre 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) 911aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 925cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 932d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 945cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 95eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 96eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 97eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 9851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 9951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 10051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 101613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 102613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 103613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 104613fe169SNathan Chancellor 105b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 106b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 107b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 108e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 109e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 110e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 11110916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1121dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1131dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 114c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 115c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 116c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 117c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 118c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 119c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 120c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 121c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 122c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 123c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 124ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 136dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 137dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 14034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1424bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 144ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1454bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1464bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1474bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1484bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1494bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1504bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1514bb16672SJiri Slaby 1524bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1534bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1544bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1554bb16672SJiri Slaby 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 158b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1593fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1603fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 162e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 163e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 164e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1653fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 166e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 167e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1683fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1693fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1703fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1713fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1723fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 173d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 174d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 175fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 176d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 177d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 178d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 179d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 180d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 181d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 182d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 193aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 194aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 195aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 196ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 197aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 198aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 201aaebf433SRyan Anderson 202aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 204aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 206aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2070f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2149afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2159afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2169afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2179afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2189afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2199afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2209afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2219afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2229afb719eSLaura Abbott 2232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2323ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2343ebe1243SLasse Collin 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 24148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 24248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 24348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 244f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 245f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 246f16466afSVasily Gorbik 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 25048f7ddf7SNick 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 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2900a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2910a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2920a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2943ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2953ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2963ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2973ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2983ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2993ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3003ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3013ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3023ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3033ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3043ebe1243SLasse Collin 3053ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3073ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3083ebe1243SLasse Collin 3097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3107dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3130a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 314681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3157dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 317e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 318e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 319e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 320e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 321e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 322e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 323e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 324e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 325e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 326e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 327e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 328e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 32948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 33048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 33148f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 33248f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 33348f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 33448f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 33548f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 33648f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 33748f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 33848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 339f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 340f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 341f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 342f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 343f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 344f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 345f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 346f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 347f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 348f16466afSVasily Gorbik 34930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 35030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 351ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 352ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 353ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 354ada4ab7aSChris Down help 355ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 356ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 357ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 358ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 359ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 360ada4ab7aSChris Down 361bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 362bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 363bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 364bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 365bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 366bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 367bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 368bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 369bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 372a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 385a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 386a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 387a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 388a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 389a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 390a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3910cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 3920cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 3930cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 3940cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 39719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 398a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 403b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 412bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 413bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 414bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 415bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 416bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 417c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 418c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 419c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 420c73be61cSDavid Howells help 421c73be61cSDavid Howells 422c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 423c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 424c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 425c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 426c73be61cSDavid Howells 427c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 428c73be61cSDavid Howells 429226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 430226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 431226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 432226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 433226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 434226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 435226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 436a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 437226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 438226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 43969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4407374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4417374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 44269369a70SJosh Triplett help 44369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 44469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 44569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 44669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 44769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 44869369a70SJosh Triplett 4491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 451804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 455cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 456cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4587a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4597a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4607a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 462cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4637a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 46428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 46574c3cbe3SAl Viro 466d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 467764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 468b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 46987a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 470d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 47802382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 481fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 483c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 486fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 489fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 490fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 493c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 50624a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 507554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 508041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 51024a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 518abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 519abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 521abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 523b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 524b58c3584SRik van Riel 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 527b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 53611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 53711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 53811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 53911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 54011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 54176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 54298eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 543fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 544fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 54576504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 54698eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 54798eb401dSValentin Schneider help 54898eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 54998eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 55098eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 55298eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 55398eb401dSValentin Schneider 55498eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 55598eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 55698eb401dSValentin Schneider 55798eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5587e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 55976504793SThara Gopinath 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5622813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5813903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 58719c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5892813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 60119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 603f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 61319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 62219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 630eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 631eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 63298dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 633eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 636eb414681SJohannes Weiner 637eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 638eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 639eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 640eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 641eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6422ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6432ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6442ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6452ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 646c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 647eb414681SJohannes Weiner 648eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 649eb414681SJohannes Weiner 650e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 651e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 652e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 653e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 654e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 655e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 656428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 657428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 658e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 671391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6725c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 674414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6752c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6765c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6775c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6785c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6792c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6802c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6812c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6835c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6840af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 685c903ff83SMike Travis 6861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 687f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 688a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 701a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 705f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 706f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 707f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 70843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 709f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 710f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 711f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 712f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 71343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 714794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 715794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7161c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 717f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 718361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 719794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 725f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 726f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 727f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 728f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 729f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 730794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 731794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 732794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 739361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7520f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7585e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7595e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76933701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 77033701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 77133701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 77233701557SChris Down help 77333701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 77433701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 77533701557SChris Down 77633701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 77733701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 77833701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 77933701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 78033701557SChris Down 78133701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 78233701557SChris Down 7835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 78938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 79038ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 79138ff87f7SStephen Boyd 79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 845be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 846be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 847be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 848be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 849be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 852be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 85372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 85472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 85572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 85672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 85772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 85872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 85972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 86072b252aeSMel Gorman bool 86172b252aeSMel Gorman 862c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8633a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 864c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 865dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 866dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 867158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 868dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 869dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 8700da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable gcc-11+ array-bounds globally. 8710da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 8725a41237aSLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8735a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8745a41237aSLinus Torvalds 875f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 876f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 8770da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 878f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 879*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC 11, globally. 880*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig GCC11_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 881*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 882*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 883*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 884*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 885*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC_VERSION < 120000 && GCC11_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 886*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 887*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 888*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 889*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 890*a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 89172b252aeSMel Gorman# 892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 907554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9116d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9246341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9252bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 926ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 931d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 932da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 93345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 934ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 93823964d2dSLi Zefan 9393e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9403e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9426a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9436a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9446a010a49STejun Heo help 9456a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9466a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9476a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9486a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9496a010a49STejun Heo 9506a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9516a010a49STejun Heo 952c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 953a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9543e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 95579bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 95600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 957a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 95800f0b825SBalbir Singh 95984c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96084c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 961c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 96284c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 96384c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 968a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9722bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 977e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9817baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 984da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 990e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9917c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 992a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9937c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9947c941438SDhaval Giani help 9957c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9967c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9977c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9987c941438SDhaval Giani 9997c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10007c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10017c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10027c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10037c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10047c941438SDhaval Giani 1005ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1006ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1007ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1008ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1009ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1010ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1011ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1012ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1013ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1014d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10167c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10177c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10187c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10197c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10207c941438SDhaval Giani help 10217c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 102232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10237c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10247c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1025d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10267c941438SDhaval Giani 10277c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10287c941438SDhaval Giani 1029af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1030af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1031af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1032af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10332480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10342480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10352480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10646cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 106798076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 107239d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 107339d3e758SParav Pandit help 107439d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 107539d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 107639d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 107739d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 107839d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 107939d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108039d3e758SParav Pandit 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1087489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1088489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1091489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1096afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1107afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1110e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1118afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 112289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112389e9b9e0STejun Heo 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11426546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11436546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 114830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1149483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1150483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 115130070984SDaniel Mack help 115230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 115330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 115430070984SDaniel Mack 115530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 115630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 115730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 115830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 115930070984SDaniel Mack 1160a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1161a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1162a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1163a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1164a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1165a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1166a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1167a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1168a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 117523b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 117723b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118023b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 118123b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 118223b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 118673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 118773b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 118873b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 118973b35147SArnd Bergmann 119023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1191c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11942813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11956a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1196c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1197c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1198c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1199c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1200c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1201c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12028dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 120458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 120558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 120617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 120758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 120858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 120958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1211769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1212769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1213660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1214769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1215769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1216769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1217769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1218769071acSAndrei Vagin 1219ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1220ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 122217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1223ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1224ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1225614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1226ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1227aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 122819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12295673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1230aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1231aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1232aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1233e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1234e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1235d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1236d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1237d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1238e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1239aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1240aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 124174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12429bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 124317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 124474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 124512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1246692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 124774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 124874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1249d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1250d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 125217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1253d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1254d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1255d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1256d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12595cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12605cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 126130341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12625cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1263bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12645cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12655cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12665cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12675cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12695cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12705cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12725cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12735091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12745091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12755091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12765091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12775091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12785091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12795091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12805091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12815091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12825091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 128726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13048c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1308f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1309f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1310f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1311f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1312c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1313c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1314dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1315dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1316c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1317c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 131876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 131976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1320a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 132176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 132276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 132376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13240947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 132585c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13260947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 132776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 132876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 132976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1330b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1331b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1332b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13336ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1334b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1335b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1336b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1337b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1338b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1339b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1340b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1341b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1342b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1343a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1344a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1345a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1346a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1347a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1348a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1349a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1350a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1351a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1352a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1353a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1354a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1355a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1356a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1357a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1358a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1359a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1360a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1361a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13621274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13631274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13641274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13651274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13661274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13671274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13681274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13691274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13701274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13711274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1372877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1373877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13742cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1375877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1376877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 137715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1378877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1379877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1380877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1381877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1382877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1383c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 138415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1385c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1386ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1387ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1388c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1389877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1390877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13915d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14015d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1405e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1406e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14088b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14098b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14108b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 141959612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142059612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 142159612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142259612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1423e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1424e1789d7cSXin Li 1425e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1426e1789d7cSXin Li string 1427e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1428e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1429e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 143059612b24SNathan Chancellor 14310847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14320847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14330847062aSRandy Dunlap 1434657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1435657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1436657a5209SMike Frysinger 1437657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1438657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1439657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1440657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1441657a5209SMike Frysinger 1442657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1443657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1444657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1445657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1446657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1447657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1448657a5209SMike Frysinger 1449657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1450657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1451657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1452657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1453657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1454657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1455657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1456657a5209SMike Frysinger 1457657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1458657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1459657a5209SMike Frysinger 1460f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1461f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1462f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1463ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1464f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14656a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1467f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1468f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1475ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14772813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1478ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1479ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1480ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1481ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14822813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14832813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14842813893fSIulia Manda default y 14852813893fSIulia Manda help 14862813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14872813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14882813893fSIulia Manda 14892813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14902813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14912813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14922813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14932813893fSIulia Manda 14942813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14952813893fSIulia Manda 1496f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1497f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1498a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1499a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1500f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1501f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1502f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1503f6187769SFabian Frederick 1504f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1505f6187769SFabian Frederick 15066af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15076af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1509a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15116af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15156af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1529baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1530baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1531baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1532baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1533baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1534baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1535baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1536baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1537baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1538baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1539baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1540baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1541baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1542baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1543baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1544baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1545baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1546d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1547d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 154974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1550d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1551d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1552d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1553d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1554d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1555d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1556d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1557c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1559c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1560c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1561c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1562c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1563c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1564c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1565c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1566c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1567708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1568046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1569708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1571708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1572708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1573708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15748761f1abSRalf Baechle 1575e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15778761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 157815f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1579e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1580e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1581e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1582e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1583e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15943f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1596bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1602bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1603bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1604bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1605bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1606bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1614fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1616fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1617fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1618fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1619fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1620fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1621fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1622fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1623b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1625b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1626b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1627b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1628b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1629b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1630b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1631b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1632e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1634e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1635e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1636e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1637e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1638e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1639e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1640e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1652ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1654ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1655ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1656ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1657ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1658ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1659ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16602b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16612b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1662561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16632b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16642b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16652b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16662b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16672b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16682b188cc1SJens Axboe 1669d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1670d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1671d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1672d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1673d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1674d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1675d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1676d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1677d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1678d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1691a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1692a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1693a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1694a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1695a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1696a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1697a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1698a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1699a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1700a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1701a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1702a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1703a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1704a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1705a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1706a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1707a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1708a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1709a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1710a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1711a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1712a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1713a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1714a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1715a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1716a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1717a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1718a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1719a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1720a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1721a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1722a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1723a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1724a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1725a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1726a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1727a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1728a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1729a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1730a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1731a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1732a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1733a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1734a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1735a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1736a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1737a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1738a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1739a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1740a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 174930f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 175030f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 175130f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 175230f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 175330f3bb09SZhen Lei help 175430f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 175530f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 175630f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 175730f3bb09SZhen Lei 175830f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 175930f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 176030f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 176130f3bb09SZhen Lei 1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1763d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1764d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1765d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1766d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1767d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1768bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1769bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1770bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1771bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1772d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1773d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1774d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1775d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1776d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1777d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1778bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1779d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1780d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1781d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1782d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1783d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1784d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1785d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1786d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1787d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1788cf8e8658SArd Biesheuvel default y 1789d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1790d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1791d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1792d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1793d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1794d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1795d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1796d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1797d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1798d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1799d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1800d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1801d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1802d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1803d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1804d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18053ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18063ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18073ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 180870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 180970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 181070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1811cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18120793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1813018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1814018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18162aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18172aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18182aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18192aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1823906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 182557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1827cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 182857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1829392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1830cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1831e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18320793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 183357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 183457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1836dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 183857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 184057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18460793a61dSThomas Gleixner 184757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1848dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 184957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1855906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1857906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1858cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1861906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18680793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1870091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1871091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1872091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1873091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1874091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1875d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1876091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1877091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1878091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1879091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 188282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1884091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1885091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 188782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1888125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1889b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1890125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1891125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1892f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1893125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18942f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 18952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 18962f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 18972f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 18982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 18992f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 19002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1901c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda select CONSTRUCTORS 19032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 19252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19265f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19275f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19285f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19295f87f112SIngo Molnar# 193097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19315f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 193297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 193389cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 193489cde455SEric DeVolder 19351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19371572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19381572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1939ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19406341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19411c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1942ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1948c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1949c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1950c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1951c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 195273b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19536c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 195498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 195598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 195698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19575f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19585f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 195998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 196098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1961692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 196298a79d6aSRusty Russell 19633a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1964e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1965e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1966e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1967e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 196816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 196916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 197016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 197116295becSSteffen Klassert 19724520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19734520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19744520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19754520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19764520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19774520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19784520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19794520c6a4SDavid Howells 19806beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1981e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19820ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19830ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19840ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1985e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1986e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19871bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19881bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19927303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19937303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19947303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19951bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1997