1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65*af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81*af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82*af0121c2SGary Guo int 83*af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84*af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 124613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 125613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 126613fe169SNathan Chancellor 127b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 128b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 129b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 130e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 131fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 132e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 13310916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 136c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 137c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 138c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 139c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 140c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 141c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 142c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 143c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 144c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 145c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 146ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 158dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 159dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 16234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1654bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 166ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1674bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1684bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1694bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1704bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1714bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1724bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1734bb16672SJiri Slaby 1744bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1754bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1764bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1774bb16672SJiri Slaby 1783fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1793fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 180b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1813fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1823fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1832f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 184e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 185e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 186e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1873fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 188e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 189e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1903fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1913fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1923fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1933fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1943fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 195d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 196d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 197fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 198d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 199d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 200d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 201d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 202d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 203d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 204d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 215aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 216aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 217aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 218ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 219aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 220aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 223aaebf433SRyan Anderson 224aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 226aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 228aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2290f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2316e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 235aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2369afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2379afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2389afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2399afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2409afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2419afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2429afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2439afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2449afb719eSLaura Abbott 2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2543ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2553ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2563ebe1243SLasse Collin 2577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 260e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 261e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 262e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 26348f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 26448f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 26548f7ddf7SNick Terrell 266f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 267f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 268f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 27248f7ddf7SNick 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 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 28230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3120a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3130a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3140a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3163ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3173ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3183ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3193ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3203ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3213ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3223ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3233ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3247472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3257472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3267472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3273ebe1243SLasse Collin 3283ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3293ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3303ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3313ebe1243SLasse Collin 3327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3360a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 337681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 340e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 341e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 342e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 343e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 344e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 345e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 346e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 347e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 348e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 349e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 350e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 351e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 35248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 35348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 35448f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 35548f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 35648f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 35748f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 35848f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 35948f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 36048f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 36148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 362f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 363f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 364f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 365f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 366f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 367f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 368f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 369f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 370f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 371f16466afSVasily Gorbik 37230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 37330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 374ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 375ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 376ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 377ada4ab7aSChris Down help 378ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 379ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 380ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 381ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 382ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 383ada4ab7aSChris Down 384bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 385bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 386bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 387bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 388bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 389bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 390bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 391bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 392bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 395a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 408a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 409a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 410a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 411a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 412a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 413a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4140cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4150cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4160cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4170cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 42019c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 421a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 426b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 434bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 435bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 436bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 437bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 438bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 439bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 440c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 441c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 442c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 443c73be61cSDavid Howells help 444c73be61cSDavid Howells 445c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 446c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 447c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 448c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 449c73be61cSDavid Howells 450c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 451c73be61cSDavid Howells 452226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 453226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 454226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 455226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 456226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 457226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 458226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 459a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 460226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 461226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 46269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4637374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4647374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 46569369a70SJosh Triplett help 46669369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 46769369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 46869369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 46969369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 47069369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 47169369a70SJosh Triplett 4721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 474804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 478cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 479cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4817a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4827a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4837a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 485cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4867a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 48728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 48874c3cbe3SAl Viro 489d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 490764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 491b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 49287a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 493d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 498abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 50102382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 502fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 506c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 513fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 516c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 527abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 528abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 52924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 530554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 531041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 53324a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 534abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 535abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 536abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 537abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 538abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 539abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 541abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 542abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 543abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 544abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 545abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 546b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 547b58c3584SRik van Riel 548fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 549fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 550b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 551fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 552fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 553fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 554fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 555fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 556fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 557fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 558fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 55911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 56011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 56111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 56211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 56311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 564d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 56598eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 566fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 567fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 56876504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 56998eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 57098eb401dSValentin Schneider help 571d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 572d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 57398eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 574d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 575d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 57698eb401dSValentin Schneider 57798eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 57898eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 57998eb401dSValentin Schneider 58098eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 581d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 58276504793SThara Gopinath 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5852813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6043903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 61019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6122813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 62419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 626f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 63619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 64519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 653eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 654eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 65598dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 656eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 657eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 658eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 659eb414681SJohannes Weiner 660eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 661eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 662eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 663eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 664eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6652ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6662ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6672ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6682ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 669c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 670eb414681SJohannes Weiner 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner 673e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 674e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 675e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 676e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 677e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 678e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 679428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 680428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 681e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6827b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6837b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6847b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6857b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6867b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6877b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6887b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6897b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6907b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6917b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6927b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 693391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 694391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6965c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 697414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6982c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6995c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7005c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7015c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7022c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7032c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7042c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7052c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7065c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7070af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 708c903ff83SMike Travis 7091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 710f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 711a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 724a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 728f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 729f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 730f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 73143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 732f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 733f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 734f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 735f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 73643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 737794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 738794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7391c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 740f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 741361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 742794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 748f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 749f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 750f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 751f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 752f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 753794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 754794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 755794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7582240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 761320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 762361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7750f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7815e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7825e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79233701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 79333701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 79433701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79533701557SChris Down help 79633701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79733701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 79833701557SChris Down 79933701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 80033701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 80133701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 80233701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 80333701557SChris Down 80433701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80533701557SChris Down 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81238ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 81338ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81438ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 875be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87672b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87772b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 87872b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87972b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 88072b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 88172b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 88272b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 88372b252aeSMel Gorman bool 88472b252aeSMel Gorman 885c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8863a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 887c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 888dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 889dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 890158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 891dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 892dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 8933e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 8940da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 8953e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8965a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8975a41237aSLinus Torvalds 898f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 899f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9008e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 901f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 90202153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 90302153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 904a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 905a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 906a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 907a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 90802153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 909a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 910a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 911a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 912a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 913a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 91472b252aeSMel Gorman# 915be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 917be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 918be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 919be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 930554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9346d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 94621c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 94721c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 94821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 94923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9506341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9512bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 952ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 95323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 957d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 958da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 95945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 960ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 961ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 962ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 96323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 96423964d2dSLi Zefan 9653e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9673e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9686a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9696a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9706a010a49STejun Heo help 9716a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9726a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9736a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9746a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9756a010a49STejun Heo 9766a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9776a010a49STejun Heo 978c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 979a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9803e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 98179bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 98221c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 98300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 984a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 98500f0b825SBalbir Singh 986e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 987e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 988c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 989e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 990e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 991e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 992e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 993e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 994e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 995e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 996e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 997e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 998e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 999e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1000e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1001fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 100284c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10062bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1007a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10112bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1016e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10207baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1023da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1029e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10307c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1031a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10327c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10337c941438SDhaval Giani help 10347c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10357c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10367c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10377c941438SDhaval Giani 10387c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1039e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1040e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1041e179e80cSTejun Heo 10427c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10437c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10447c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1045e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10467c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10477c941438SDhaval Giani 1048ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1050ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1051ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1052ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1053ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1054ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1055ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1056ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1057d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1058ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10597c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10607c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10617c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10627c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10637c941438SDhaval Giani help 10647c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 106532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10667c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10677c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1068d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10697c941438SDhaval Giani 107081951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 107181951366STejun Heo bool 107281951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 107381951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 107481951366STejun Heo default y 107581951366STejun Heo 10767c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10777c941438SDhaval Giani 1078af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1079af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1080af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1081af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10822480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10832480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10842480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10852480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10862480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10872480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10882480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10892480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10902480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10912480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10922480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10932480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10942480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10952480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10962480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10972480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10982480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10992480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11002480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11012480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11022480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11032480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11136cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 111698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 112039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 112139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 112239d3e758SParav Pandit help 112339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 112439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 112539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 112639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 112739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 112839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 112939d3e758SParav Pandit 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1136489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1137489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1138489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1139489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1140489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1145afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1156afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1159e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1165afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1167afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11681abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11691abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11701abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 11711abab1baSChen Ridong default n 11721abab1baSChen Ridong help 11731abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 11741abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 11751abab1baSChen Ridong which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 11761abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 11771abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 11781abab1baSChen Ridong 11791abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 11801abab1baSChen Ridong 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 118489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 118589e9b9e0STejun Heo 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12046546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12056546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 120930070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 121030070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1211483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1212483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 121330070984SDaniel Mack help 121430070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 121530070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 121630070984SDaniel Mack 121730070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 121830070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 121930070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 122030070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 122130070984SDaniel Mack 1222a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1223a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1224a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1225a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1226a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1227a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1228a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1229a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1230a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1231a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1232a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1233a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1234a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1235a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 123723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 123923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 124223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 124323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 124423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 124873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 125073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 125173b35147SArnd Bergmann 125223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1253c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12562813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12576a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1258c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1259c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1260c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1261c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1262c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1263c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 126658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 126758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 126817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 126958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 127058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 127158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 127258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1273769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1274769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1275660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1276769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1277769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1278769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1279769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1280769071acSAndrei Vagin 1281ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1282ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12838dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 128417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1285ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1286ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1287614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1288ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1289aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 129019c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12915673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1292aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1293aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1294aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1295e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1296e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1297d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1298d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1299d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1300e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1301aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1302aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 130374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13049bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 130517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 130674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 130712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1308692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 130974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 131074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1311d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1312d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 131417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1315d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1316d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1317d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1318d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13215cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13225cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 132330341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13245cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1325bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13265cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13275cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13285cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13295cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13305cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13315cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13325cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13335cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13345cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13355091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13365091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13375091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13385091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13395091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13405091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13415091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13425091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13435091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13445091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13455091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13465091faa4SMike Galbraith 13477af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13487af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 134926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13507af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13517af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13527af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13537af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13547af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13557af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13567af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13577af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1359f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1360f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1361f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1362f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1363f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1364f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1365f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13668c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1367f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1368f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1369f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1370f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1371f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1372f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1373f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1374c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1375c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1376dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1377dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1378c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1379c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 138076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 138176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1382a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 138376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 138476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 138576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13860947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 138785c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13880947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 138976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 139076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 139176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1392b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1393b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1394b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13956ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1396b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1397b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1398b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1399b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1400b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1401b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1402b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1403b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1404b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1405a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1406a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1407a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1408a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1409a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1410a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1411a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1412a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1413a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1414a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1415a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1416a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1417a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1418a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1419a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1420a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1421a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1422a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1423a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14241274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14251274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14261274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14271274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14281274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14291274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14301274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14311274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14321274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14331274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1434877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1435877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14362cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1437877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1438877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 143915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1440877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1441877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1442877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1443877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1444877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1445c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 144615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1447c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1448ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1449ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1450c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1451877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1452877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14535d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14635d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1467e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1468e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14728b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 148159612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 148259612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 148359612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 148459612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1485e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1486e1789d7cSXin Li 1487e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1488e1789d7cSXin Li string 1489e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1490e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1491e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 149259612b24SNathan Chancellor 14930847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14940847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14950847062aSRandy Dunlap 1496657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1497657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1498657a5209SMike Frysinger 1499657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1500657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1501657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1502657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1503657a5209SMike Frysinger 1504657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1505657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1506657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1507657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1508657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1509657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1510657a5209SMike Frysinger 1511657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1512657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1513657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1514657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1515657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1516657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1517657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1518657a5209SMike Frysinger 1519657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1520657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1521657a5209SMike Frysinger 15226a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1524f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1525f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1532ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15342813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1535ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1536ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1537ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1538ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15392813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15402813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15412813893fSIulia Manda default y 15422813893fSIulia Manda help 15432813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15442813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15452813893fSIulia Manda 15462813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15472813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15482813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15492813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15502813893fSIulia Manda 15512813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15522813893fSIulia Manda 1553f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1554f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1555cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1556a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1557f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1558f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1559f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1560f6187769SFabian Frederick 1561f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1562f6187769SFabian Frederick 15636af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1566a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1586baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1587baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1588baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1589baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1590baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1591baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1592baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1593baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1594baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1595baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1596baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1597baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1598baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1599baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1600baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1601baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1602baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1603d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1604d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 160674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1607d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1608d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1609d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1610d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1611d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1612d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1613d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1614c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1616c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1617c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1618c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1619c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1620c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1621c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1622c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1623c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1624708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1625046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1626708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1628708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1629708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1630708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16318761f1abSRalf Baechle 1632e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16348761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 163515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1636e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1637e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1638e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1639e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1640e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 164127021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 164227021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 164427021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16503f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1652bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1658bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1659bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1660bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1661bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1662bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1670fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1672fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1673fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1674fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1675fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1676fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1677fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1678fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1679b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1681b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1682b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1683b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1684b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1685b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1686b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1687b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1688e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1690e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1691e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1692e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1693e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1694e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1695e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1696e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1708ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1710ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1711ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1712ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1713ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1714ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1715ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17162b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17172b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1718561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17192b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17202b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17212b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17222b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17232b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17242b188cc1SJens Axboe 17251802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17261802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17271802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17281802656eSJens Axboe help 17291802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17301802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17311802656eSJens Axboe 17321802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17331802656eSJens Axboe 17341802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17351802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17361802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17371802656eSJens Axboe 1738d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1739d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1740d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1741d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1742d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1743d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1744d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1745d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1746d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1747d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1760a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1761a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1762a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1763a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1764a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1765a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1766a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1767a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1768a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1769a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1770a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1771a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1772a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1773a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1774a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1775a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1776a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1777a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1778a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1779a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1780a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1781a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1782a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1783a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1784a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1785a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1786a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1787a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1788a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1789a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1790a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1791a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1792a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1793a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1794a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1795a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1796a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1810d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1811d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1812d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1813d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1814d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1815d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1816d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1817d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 181830f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 181930f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 182030f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 182130f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 182230f3bb09SZhen Lei help 182330f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 182430f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 182530f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 182630f3bb09SZhen Lei 182730f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 182830f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 182930f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 183030f3bb09SZhen Lei 1831d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1832d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1833d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1834d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1835d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1836d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1837bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1838bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1839bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1840bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1841d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1842d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1843d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1844d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1845d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1846d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1847bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1848d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1849d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1850d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1851d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1852d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1853d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1854d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1855d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18583ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 185970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 186070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 186170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1862cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18630793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1864018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1865018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18672aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18682aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18692aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18702aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1873906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1874906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1875906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 187657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18770793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1878cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 187957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1880392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1881cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1882e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18830793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 188457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 188557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1887dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 188857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 188957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 189057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 189157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18920793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18930793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18940793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18950793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18960793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 189857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1899dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 190057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19010793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19020793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19040793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1906906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1907906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1908906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1909cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1910906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1911906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1912906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1913906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1914906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1915906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1916906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1917906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1918906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19190793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1921091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1922091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1923091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1924091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1926d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193382c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 193882c04ff8SPeter Foley 1939125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1940b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1941125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1942125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1943f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1944125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19452f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19462f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19472f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19482f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19492f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 1950f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 19512f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1952c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19534c66f830SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || RUSTC_VERSION >= 107900 && HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 1954ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 1955af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 1956f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 195793e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 19582f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19592f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19602f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19622f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19632f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19692f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19712f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19745134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 19755134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 19765134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 19772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19782f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19819e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 19829e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678). It can be removed when 19839e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # the minimum version is upgraded past that (0.69.1 already fixed the issue). 1984aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 19852f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19865f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19875f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19885f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19895f87f112SIngo Molnar# 199097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19915f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 199297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 199389cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 199489cde455SEric DeVolder 19951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19971572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19981572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1999ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20011c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2002ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2003c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2004c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2005c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2006c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 200773b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20086c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 200998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 201098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 201198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20125f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20135f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 201498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 201598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2016692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 201798a79d6aSRusty Russell 20183a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2019e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2020e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2021e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2022e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 202316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 202416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 202516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 202616295becSSteffen Klassert 20274520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20284520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20294520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20304520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20314520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20324520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20334520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20344520c6a4SDavid Howells 20356beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2036e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20370ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20380ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20390ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20404ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20414ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 20424ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2043e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2044e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20451bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20461bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20477303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20487303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20497303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20507303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20531bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20541bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2055