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 84f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 85f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 86f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 87f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 88f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 89f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 93587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 97587f1701SNick Desaulniers 981aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 991aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1001aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 101534bd703SAlexandre 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) 1021aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1035cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1042d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1055cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 106eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 107eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 10951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 11051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 11151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 112613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 113613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 114613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 115613fe169SNathan Chancellor 116b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 117b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 118b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 119e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 120fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 121e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 12210916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1231dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1241dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 125c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 126c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 127c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 128c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 129c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 130c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 131c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 132c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 133c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 134c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 135ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 147dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 148dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 15134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1534bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1544bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 155ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1564bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1574bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1584bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1594bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1604bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1614bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1624bb16672SJiri Slaby 1634bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1644bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1654bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1664bb16672SJiri Slaby 1673fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1683fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 169b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1703fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1713fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 173e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 174e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 175e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1763fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 177e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 178e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1793fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1803fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1813fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1823fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1833fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 184d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 185d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 186fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 187d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 188d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 189d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 190d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 191d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 192d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 193d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 204aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 205aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 206aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 207ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 208aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 209aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 212aaebf433SRyan Anderson 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 215aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 217aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2180f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 224aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2259afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2269afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2279afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2289afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2299afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2309afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2319afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2329afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2339afb719eSLaura Abbott 2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2433ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2443ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2453ebe1243SLasse Collin 2467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 251e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 25248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 25348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 25448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 255f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 26148f7ddf7SNick 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 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2920a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3010a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3053ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3073ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3083ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3093ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3103ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3113ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3123ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3133ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3143ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3153ebe1243SLasse Collin 3163ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3173ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3183ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3193ebe1243SLasse Collin 3207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3240a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 325681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 328e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 329e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 330e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 331e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 332e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 333e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 334e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 335e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 336e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 337e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 338e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 339e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 34048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 34148f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 34248f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 34348f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 34448f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 34548f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 34648f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 34748f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 34848f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 34948f7ddf7SNick Terrell 350f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 351f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 352f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 353f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 354f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 355f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 356f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 357f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 358f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 359f16466afSVasily Gorbik 36030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 36130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 362ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 363ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 364ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 365ada4ab7aSChris Down help 366ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 367ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 368ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 369ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 370ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 371ada4ab7aSChris Down 372bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 373bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 374bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 375bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 376bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 377bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 378bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 379bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 380bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 383a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 396a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 397a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 398a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 399a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 400a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 401a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4020cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4030cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4040cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4050cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 40819c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 409a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 414b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 422bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 423bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 424bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 425bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 426bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 427bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 428c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 429c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 430c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 431c73be61cSDavid Howells help 432c73be61cSDavid Howells 433c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 434c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 435c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 436c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 437c73be61cSDavid Howells 438c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 439c73be61cSDavid Howells 440226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 441226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 442226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 443226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 444226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 445226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 446226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 447a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 448226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 449226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 45069369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4517374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4527374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 45369369a70SJosh Triplett help 45469369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 45569369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 45669369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 45769369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 45869369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 45969369a70SJosh Triplett 4601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 462804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 466cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 467cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4697a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4707a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4717a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 473cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4747a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 47528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 47674c3cbe3SAl Viro 477d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 478764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 479b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 48087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 481d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 48902382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 490fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 491fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 492fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 493fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 494c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 496fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 497fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 504c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 51724a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 518554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 519041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 52124a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 524abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 525abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 526abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 527abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 528abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 530abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 531abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 533abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 534b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 535b58c3584SRik van Riel 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 537fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 538b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 540fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 541fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 542fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 543fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 545fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 546fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 54711d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 54811d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 54911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 55011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 55111d4afd4SVincent Guittot 552d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 55398eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 554fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 555fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 55676504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 55798eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 55898eb401dSValentin Schneider help 559d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 560d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 56198eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 562d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 563d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 56498eb401dSValentin Schneider 56598eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 56698eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 56798eb401dSValentin Schneider 56898eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 569d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 57076504793SThara Gopinath 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5732813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5923903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 59819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6002813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 61219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 614f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 62419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 63319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 641eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 642eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 64398dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 644eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 645eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 646eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 647eb414681SJohannes Weiner 648eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 649eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 650eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 651eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 652eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6532ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6542ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6552ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6562ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 657c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 658eb414681SJohannes Weiner 659eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 660eb414681SJohannes Weiner 661e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 662e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 663e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 664e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 665e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 666e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 667428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 668428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 669e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6807b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 681391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 682391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6835c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 685414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6862c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6875c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6885c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6895c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6902c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6912c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6922c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6932c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6945c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6950af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 696c903ff83SMike Travis 6971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 698f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 699a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 712a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 716f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 717f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 718f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 71943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 720f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 721f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 722f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 723f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 72443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 725794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 726794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7271c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 728f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 729361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 730794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 736f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 737f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 738f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 739f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 740f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 741794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 742794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 743794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7462240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 749320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 750361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7630f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7695e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7705e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78033701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 78133701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 78233701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 78333701557SChris Down help 78433701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 78533701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 78633701557SChris Down 78733701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 78833701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 78933701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 79033701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 79133701557SChris Down 79233701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 79333701557SChris Down 7945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 863be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 86472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 86572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 86672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 86772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 86872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 86972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 87072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 87172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 87272b252aeSMel Gorman 873c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8743a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 875c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 876dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 877dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 878158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 879dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 880dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 8813e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 8820da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 8833e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8845a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8855a41237aSLinus Torvalds 886f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 887f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 8888e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 889f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 89002153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 89102153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 892a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 893a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 894a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 895a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 89602153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 897a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 898a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 899a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 900a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 901a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 90272b252aeSMel Gorman# 903be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 904be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 905be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 906be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 907be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 918554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9226d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 93421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 93521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 93621c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 93723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9386341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9392bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 940ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 945d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 946da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 94745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 948ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 949ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 950ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 95223964d2dSLi Zefan 9533e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9543e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9553e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9566a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9576a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9586a010a49STejun Heo help 9596a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9606a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9616a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9626a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9636a010a49STejun Heo 9646a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9656a010a49STejun Heo 966c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 967a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9683e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96979bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 97021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 97100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 972a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 97300f0b825SBalbir Singh 974e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 975e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 976c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 977e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 978e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 979e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 980e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 981e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 982e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 983e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 984e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 985e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 986e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 987e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 988e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 989e93d4166SRoman Gushchin San N is unsure. 99084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9942bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 995a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1004e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10087baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1011da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1017e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10187c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1019a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10207c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10217c941438SDhaval Giani help 10227c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10237c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10247c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10257c941438SDhaval Giani 10267c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10277c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10287c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10297c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10307c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10317c941438SDhaval Giani 1032ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1033ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1034ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1035ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1036ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1037ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1038ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1039ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1041d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10437c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10447c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10457c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10467c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10477c941438SDhaval Giani help 10487c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 104932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10507c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10517c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1052d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10537c941438SDhaval Giani 10547c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10557c941438SDhaval Giani 1056af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1057af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1058af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1059af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10602480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10612480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10622480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10632480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10642480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10652480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10662480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10672480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10682480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10692480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10702480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10712480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10722480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10732480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10742480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10752480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10762480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10772480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10782480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10792480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10802480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10812480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10916cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 109498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 109839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 109939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 110039d3e758SParav Pandit help 110139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 110239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 110339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 110439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 110539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 110639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 110739d3e758SParav Pandit 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1114489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1115489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1116489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1117489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1118489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1123afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1134afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1137e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1143afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1145afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 114989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 115089e9b9e0STejun Heo 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11696546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11706546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 117430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 117530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1176483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1177483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 117830070984SDaniel Mack help 117930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 118030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 118130070984SDaniel Mack 118230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 118330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 118430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 118530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 118630070984SDaniel Mack 1187a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1188a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1189a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1190a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1191a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1192a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1193a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1194a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1195a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1196a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1197a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1198a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1199a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1200a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 120223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 120423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 120723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 120823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 120923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 121373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 121473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 121573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 121673b35147SArnd Bergmann 121723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1218c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12212813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1223c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1224c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1225c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1226c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1227c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1228c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 123158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 123258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 123317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 123458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 123558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 123658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 123758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1238769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1239769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1240660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1241769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1242769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1243769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1244769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1245769071acSAndrei Vagin 1246ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1247ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 124917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1250ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1251ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1252614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1253ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1254aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 125519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12565673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1257aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1258aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1259aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1260e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1261e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1262d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1263d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1264d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1265e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1266aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1267aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 126874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12699bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 127017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 127174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 127212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1273692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 127474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 127574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1276d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1277d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 127917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1280d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1281d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1282d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1283d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12865cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12875cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 128830341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12895cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1290bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12915cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12925cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12935cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12945cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12955cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12965cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12975cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12985cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12995cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13005091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13015091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13025091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13035091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13045091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13055091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13065091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13075091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13085091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13095091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13105091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13115091faa4SMike Galbraith 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 131426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1324f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1325f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1326f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1327f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1328f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1329f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1330f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13318c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1332f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1333f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1334f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1335f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1336f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1337f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1338f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1339c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1340c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1341dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1342dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1343c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1344c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 134576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 134676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1347a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 134876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 134976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 135076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13510947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 135285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13530947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 135476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 135576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 135676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1357b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1358b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1359b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13606ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1361b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1362b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1363b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1364b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1365b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1366b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1367b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1368b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1369b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1370a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1371a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1372a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1373a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1374a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1375a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1376a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1377a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1378a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1379a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1380a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1381a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1382a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1383a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1384a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1385a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1386a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1387a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1388a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13891274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13901274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13911274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13921274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13931274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13941274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13951274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13961274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13971274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13981274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1399877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1400877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14012cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1402877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1403877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 140415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1405877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1406877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1407877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1408877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1409877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1410c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 141115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1412c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1413ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1414ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1415c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1416877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1417877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14185d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14285d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1432e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1433e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14358b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14368b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14378b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 144659612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 144759612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 144859612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 144959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1450e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1451e1789d7cSXin Li 1452e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1453e1789d7cSXin Li string 1454e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1455e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1456e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 145759612b24SNathan Chancellor 14580847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14590847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14600847062aSRandy Dunlap 1461657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger 1464657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger 1469657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1471657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1472657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1473657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1474657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1475657a5209SMike Frysinger 1476657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1477657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1478657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1479657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1480657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1481657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1482657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1483657a5209SMike Frysinger 1484657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1485657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1486657a5209SMike Frysinger 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1489f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1490f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1497ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14992813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1500ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1501ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1502ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1503ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15042813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15052813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15062813893fSIulia Manda default y 15072813893fSIulia Manda help 15082813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15092813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15102813893fSIulia Manda 15112813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15122813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15132813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15142813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15152813893fSIulia Manda 15162813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15172813893fSIulia Manda 1518f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1519f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1520cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1521a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1522f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1523f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1524f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1525f6187769SFabian Frederick 1526f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1527f6187769SFabian Frederick 15286af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1531a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1542d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1551baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1552baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1553baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1554baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1555baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1556baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1557baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1558baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1559baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1560baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1561baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1562baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1563baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1564baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1565baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1566baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1567baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1568d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1569d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 157174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1572d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1573d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1574d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1575d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1576d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1577d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1578d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1579c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1581c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1582c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1583c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1584c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1585c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1586c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1587c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1588c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1589708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1590046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1591708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1593708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1594708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1595708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15968761f1abSRalf Baechle 1597e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15998761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 160015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1601e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1602e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1603e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1604e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1605e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 160627021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 160727021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 160927021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16153f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1617bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1623bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1624bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1625bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1626bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1627bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1635fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1637fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1638fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1639fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1640fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1641fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1642fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1643fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1644b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1646b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1647b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1648b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1649b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1650b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1651b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1652b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1653e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1655e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1656e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1657e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1658e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1659e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1660e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1661e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1673ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1675ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1676ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1677ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1678ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1679ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1680ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16812b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16822b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1683561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16842b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16852b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16862b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16872b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16882b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16892b188cc1SJens Axboe 1690d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1691d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1692d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1693d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1694d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1695d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1696d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1697d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1698d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1699d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1712a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1713a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1714a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1715a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1716a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1717a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1718a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1719a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1720a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1721a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1722a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1723a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1724a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1725a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1726a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1727a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1728a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1729a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1730a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1731a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1732a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1733a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1734a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1735a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1736a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1737a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1738a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1739a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1740a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1741a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1742a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1743a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1744a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1745a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1746a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1747a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1748a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1749a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1750a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1751a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1752a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1753a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1754a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1755a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1756a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1757a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1758a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1759a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1760a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1761a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1763d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1764d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1765d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1766d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1767d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1768d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1769d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 177030f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 177130f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 177230f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 177330f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 177430f3bb09SZhen Lei help 177530f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 177630f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 177730f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 177830f3bb09SZhen Lei 177930f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 178030f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 178130f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 178230f3bb09SZhen Lei 1783d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1784d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1785d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1786d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1787d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1788d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1789bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1790bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1791bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1792bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1793d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1794d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1795d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1796d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1797d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1798d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1799bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1800d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1801d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1802d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1803d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1804d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1805d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1806d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1807d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18083ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18093ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18103ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 181170216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 181270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 181370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1814cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1816018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1817018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18192aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18202aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18212aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18222aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1823906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1826906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1827906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 182857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18290793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1830cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 183157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1832392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1833cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1834e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1839dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 184057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 184157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 184357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18460793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18470793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18480793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 185057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1851dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 185257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18560793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1861cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18710793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18720793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1873091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1874091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1875091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1876091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1877091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1878d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1879091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1884091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 188582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 189082c04ff8SPeter Foley 1891125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1892b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1893125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1894125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1895f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1896125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18972f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 18982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 18992f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19018933cf46SConor Dooley depends on !CFI_CLANG 19022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 19032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 19042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1905c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 1922*aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(RUSTC) --version 2>/dev/null)" 19232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19242f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19279e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 19289e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678). It can be removed when 19299e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # the minimum version is upgraded past that (0.69.1 already fixed the issue). 1930*aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 19312f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19325f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19335f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19345f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19355f87f112SIngo Molnar# 193697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19375f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 193897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 193989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 194089cde455SEric DeVolder 19411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19431572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19441572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1945ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19471c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1948ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1949c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1950c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1951c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1952c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 195373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19546c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 195598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 195698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 195798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19585f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19595f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 196098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 196198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1962692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 196398a79d6aSRusty Russell 19643a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1965e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1966e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1967e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1968e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 196916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 197016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 197116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 197216295becSSteffen Klassert 19734520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19744520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19754520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19764520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19774520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19784520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19794520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19804520c6a4SDavid Howells 19816beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1982e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19830ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19840ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19850ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 19864ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 19874ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 19884ff4c745SAndrea Parri 1989e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1990e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19911bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19921bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19937303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19947303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19957303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19967303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19991bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20001bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2001