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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION
209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	int
219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh)
229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26*b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD
27*b744b43fSSami Tolvanen	def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD)
28*b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
29469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
30469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
32469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
331a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
341a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
351a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
36e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
37e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
38e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
395cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
402d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
415cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
42eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
43eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
44eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
52b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
53b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
54b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
55b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
56b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
57b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
58b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
59b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
60b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
61b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
62b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
6387c9366eSJohannes Berg	depends on !UML
64b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
65e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
66e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
67e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
6810916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
691dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
701dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
71c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
73c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
74c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
75c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
76c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
77c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
78c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
79c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
80c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
81ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
93dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
94dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
9734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
994bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1004bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
101bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
1024bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
1034bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1044bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1054bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1064bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1074bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1084bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1094bb16672SJiri Slaby
1104bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1114bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1124bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1134bb16672SJiri Slaby
114d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
115d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
116fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
117d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
118d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
119d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
120d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
121d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
122d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
123d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
134aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
135aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
136aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
137ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
138aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
139aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1416e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
142aaebf433SRyan Anderson
143aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
145aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
147aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
154aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1559afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1569afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1579afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1589afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1599afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1609afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1619afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1629afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1639afb719eSLaura Abbott
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1733ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin
1767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
179e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
180e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
181e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
182f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
183f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
184f16466afSVasily Gorbik
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
188f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2190a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2280a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2290a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2300a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2323ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2333ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2343ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2353ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2363ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2373ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2383ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2393ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2403ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2413ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2423ebe1243SLasse Collin
2433ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2443ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2453ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2463ebe1243SLasse Collin
2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2497dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2510a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
252681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
255e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
259e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
260e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
261e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
262e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
263e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
264e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
265e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
266e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
267f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
268f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
269f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
270f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
271f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
272f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
273f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
274f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
275f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
276f16466afSVasily Gorbik
27730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
281bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
282bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
283bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
284bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
285bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
286bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
287bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
28817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
28917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
29017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
29117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
29217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
29317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
29417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
29717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
320a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
321a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
322a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
323a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
324a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
325a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
32819c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
334b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
342bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
343bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
344bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
345bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
346bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
347bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
348226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
349226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
351226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
352226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
353226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
354226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
355a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
356226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
357226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
35869369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
35969369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
360b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
36169369a70SJosh Triplett	help
36269369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
36369369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
36469369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
36569369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
36669369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
36769369a70SJosh Triplett
3681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
370804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
374cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
375cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3777a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3787a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3797a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
381cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3827a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
38328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
38474c3cbe3SAl Viro
385d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
386764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
38787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
388d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
39702fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
402c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
412c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
425ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
426554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
427041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
442b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
443b58c3584SRik van Riel
444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
446b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
45511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
45611d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
45711d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
45811d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
45911d4afd4SVincent Guittot
46076504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
46176504793SThara Gopinath	bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure"
46276504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
46376504793SThara Gopinath
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4662813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4853903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
49119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4932813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
50519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
507f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
51719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
52619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
534eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
535eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
536eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
537eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
538eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
539eb414681SJohannes Weiner
540eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
541eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
542eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
543eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
544eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5452ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5462ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5472ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5482ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
549c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
550eb414681SJohannes Weiner
551eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
552eb414681SJohannes Weiner
553e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
554e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
555e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
556e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
557e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
558e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
559428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
560428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
561e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5765c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
577414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5815c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5832c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5842c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5852c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5865c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5870af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
588c903ff83SMike Travis
589de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
590de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
591de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
592de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
594f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
612f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
613f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
614f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
61543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
616f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
617f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
618f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
619f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
62043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
621794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
622794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
623fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
624f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
625361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
626794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
632f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
633f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
634f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
635f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
636f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
637794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
638794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
639794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6422240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
646361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6655e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6665e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
67023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
67423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
676f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
677f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
678427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
679427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
680f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
681427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
682f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
683f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
684f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
685f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
687427934b8SPetr Mladek
688f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
689427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
690427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
691427934b8SPetr Mladek
692427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
693427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
694427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
695427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
696427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
697427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
698427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
699427934b8SPetr Mladek
7005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
70638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
70738ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
70838ff87f7SStephen Boyd
70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
765be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
769be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
77072b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
77172b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
77272b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
77372b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
77472b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
77572b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
77672b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
77772b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
77872b252aeSMel Gorman
779c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
7803a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
781c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
78272b252aeSMel Gorman#
783be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
784be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
785be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
786be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
787be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8026d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8086f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8096f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8106f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
81423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8156341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8162bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
817ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
81823964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
822d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
823da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
82445ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
825ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
826ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
827ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
82823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
82923964d2dSLi Zefan
8303e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
8313e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
8323e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
833c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
834a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
8353e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
83679bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
83700f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
838a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
83900f0b825SBalbir Singh
840c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
841a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
842c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
843c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
844a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
845a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
846c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
847a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
848c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
849a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
850a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
851a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
852a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
85343d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
85407555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
855a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
856a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
857a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
85800a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
859c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
86084c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
86184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
86284c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
86384c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
86484c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8732bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
878e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8827baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
885da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
891e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8927c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
893a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8947c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8957c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8967c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8977c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8987c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8997c941438SDhaval Giani
9007c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9017c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9027c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9037c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9047c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9057c941438SDhaval Giani
906ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
907ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
908ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
909ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
910ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
911ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
912ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
913ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
914ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
915d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
916ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9177c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9187c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9197c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9207c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9217c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9227c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
92332bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9247c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9257c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
926d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9277c941438SDhaval Giani
9287c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9297c941438SDhaval Giani
9302480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9332480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9342480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9352480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9362480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
9432480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
9442480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9452480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
9462480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
9472480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
9482480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
9492480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9502480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
9512480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
9616cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
96498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
96839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
96939d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
97039d3e758SParav Pandit	help
97139d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
97239d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
97339d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
97439d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
97539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
97639d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
97739d3e758SParav Pandit
9786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
984489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
985489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
986489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
987489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
988489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
993afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1004afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1007e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1013afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1015afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
101989e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
102089e9b9e0STejun Heo
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10396546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10406546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
104430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
104530070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1046483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1047483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
104830070984SDaniel Mack	help
104930070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
105030070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
105130070984SDaniel Mack
105230070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
105330070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
105430070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
105530070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
105630070984SDaniel Mack
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
105823b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
106023b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
106323b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
106423b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
106523b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
106973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
107073b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
107173b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
107273b35147SArnd Bergmann
107323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1074c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10772813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1079c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1080c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1081c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1082c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1083c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1084c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
108758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
108858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
108917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
109058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
109158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
109258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
109358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1094769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1095769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1096660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1097769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1098769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1099769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1100769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1101769071acSAndrei Vagin
1102ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1103ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
110517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1106ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1107ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1108614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1109ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1110aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
111119c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11125673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1113aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1114aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1115aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1116e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1117e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1118d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1119d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1120d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1121e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1122aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1123aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
112474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11259bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
112617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
112774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
112812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1129692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
113074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
113174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1132d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1133d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
113517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1136d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1137d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1138d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1139d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11408dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11425cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
11435cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
11445cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
11455cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
11465cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
11475cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
11485cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
11495cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
11505cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
11515cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11525cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
11535cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11545091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11555091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11565091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11575091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11585091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11595091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11605091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11615091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11625091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11635091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11645091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11655091faa4SMike Galbraith
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11675d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11905d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12047af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
120626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12238c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1224f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1227f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1228f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1231c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1232c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1233dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1234dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1235c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1236c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
123776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
123876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
12392910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
124076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
124176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
124276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
12430947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
124485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
12450947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
124676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
124776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
124876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1249877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1250877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
12512cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1252877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1253877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
125415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1255877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1256877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1257877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1258877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1259877417e6SArnd Bergmann
126015f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
126115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
126215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1263b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1264c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
126515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
126615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1267c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12685d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
126915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
1272ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1273ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1274c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1275877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1276877417e6SArnd Bergmann
12775d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
12825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
12855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
12865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12875d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
129116fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1292e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1293e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
12945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12958b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
12968b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
12978b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
12985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13060847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13070847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13080847062aSRandy Dunlap
1309657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1310657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1311657a5209SMike Frysinger
1312657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1313657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1314657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1315657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1316657a5209SMike Frysinger
1317657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1318657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1319657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1320657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1321657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1322657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1323657a5209SMike Frysinger
1324657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1325657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1326657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1327657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1328657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1329657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1330657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1331657a5209SMike Frysinger
1332657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1333657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1334657a5209SMike Frysinger
1335f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1336f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1337f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1338f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13396a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13406a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1341f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1342f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1349ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13512813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1352ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1353ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1354ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1355ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13562813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13572813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13582813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13592813893fSIulia Manda	help
13602813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13612813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13622813893fSIulia Manda
13632813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13642813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13652813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13662813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13672813893fSIulia Manda
13682813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13692813893fSIulia Manda
1370f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1371f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1372a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1373f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1374f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1375f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1376f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1377f6187769SFabian Frederick
1378f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1379f6187769SFabian Frederick
13806af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13816af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13826af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13836af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13866af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13876af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1403baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1404baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1405baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1406baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1407baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1408baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1410baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1411baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1412baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1413baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1414baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1415baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1416baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1417baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1418baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1419baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1420d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1421d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
142374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1424d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1425d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1426d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1427d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1428d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1429d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1430d59745ceSMatt Mackall
143142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
143242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
143342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
143442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
143542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1436c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1438c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1439c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1440c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1441c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1442c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1443c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1444c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1445c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1446708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1447046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1448708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14496a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1450708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1451708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1452708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14538761f1abSRalf Baechle
1454e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14568761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
145715f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1458e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1459e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1460e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1461e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1462e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1474bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1480bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1481bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1482bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1483bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1484bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
148503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
148603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
148762b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
148803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
148903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
149003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
149103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
149203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1500fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15016a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1502fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1503fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1504fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1505fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1506fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1507fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1508fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1509b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1511b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1512b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1513b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1514b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1515b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1516b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1517b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1518e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1520e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1521e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1522e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1523e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1524e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1525e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1526e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1538ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15396a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1540ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1541ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1542ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1543ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1544ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1545ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
15462b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
15472b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1548561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
15492b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
15502b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
15512b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
15522b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
15532b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
15542b188cc1SJens Axboe
1555d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1556d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1557d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1558d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1559d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1560d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1561d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1562d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1563d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1564d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
15655a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
15665a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
15675a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
15685a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
15695a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
15705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
15715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
15725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
15735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
15745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
15755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
15765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
15775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
15785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
15795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
15805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1615a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1633fc611f47SKP Singh
1634fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1635fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
16364edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1637fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1638fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1639fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1640fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1641fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1642fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1643fc611f47SKP Singh
1644fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1645fc611f47SKP Singh
1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1649bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
165581c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
165681c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
165781c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1658290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1659290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1660290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1661290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1662290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1663290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1664290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
166581c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
166681c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
166781c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
166881c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
16763ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
16773ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
16783ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
167970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
168070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
168170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1684d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1686d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1687d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1688d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1689d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1690d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1691d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1692d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1693d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1694d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1695d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1696d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1697d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1698d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1699d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1700d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1701d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1702d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1703d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1704d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17056befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17075d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17136befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1714cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17150793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1716018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1717018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17180793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1720906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1721906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1722906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1723906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1724ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1725424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1726ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1727ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1728ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1729ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1730ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
173157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17320793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1733cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
173457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1735392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1736cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1737e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
173883fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
174057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
174157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
17420793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1743dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
174457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
174557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
174657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
174757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
17480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
17490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
17500793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
17510793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
17520793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17530793a61dSThomas Gleixner
175457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1755dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
175657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17580793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17590793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17600793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17610793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1762906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1763906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1764906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1765cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1766906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1767906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1768906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1769906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1770906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1771906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1772906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1773906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1774906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17750793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17760793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1777f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1778f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1780f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17812aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17822aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17842aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1785f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
178641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
178741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1789f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
179041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
179141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
179241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
179341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
179441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
179541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
17961663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
17971663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
17981663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
17991663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
18001663f26dSTejun Heo	help
18011663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
18021663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
18031663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
18041663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
18051663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
18061663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
18071663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
18081663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
18091663f26dSTejun Heo
1810b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1811b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1812b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1813b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1814b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1815b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1816b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1817692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1818b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1819b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1820b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1821b943c460SRandy Dunlap
182281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1824a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
182581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
182881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
182981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
183004385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
183181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
183334013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
183402f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
183681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
183781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1838ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
183981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
184181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
184381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
184402f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
184502f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
184681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
184781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
18486a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
184981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
185081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
185137291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
185237291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
185337291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
185481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
185581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
185681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
18577660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
18587660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
18597660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
18607660a6fdSKees Cook	help
18617660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
18627660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
18637660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
18647660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
18657660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
18667660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
18677660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
18687660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
18697660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
18707660a6fdSKees Cook
1871c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1872c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1873210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1874c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1875c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1876210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1877c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1878c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1879c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
18802482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
18812482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
18822482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
18832482ddecSKees Cook	help
18842482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
18852482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
188692bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
18872482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
18882482ddecSKees Cook
1889e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1890e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1891e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1892e900a918SDan Williams	help
1893e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1894e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1895e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1896e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1897e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1898e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1899e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1900e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1901e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1902e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1903e900a918SDan Williams
1904e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1905e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1906e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1907e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1908e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1909e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1910e900a918SDan Williams
1911e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1912e900a918SDan Williams
1913345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1914345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1915b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1916345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1917345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
191892bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1919345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1920345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1921345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1922345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1923345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1924ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1925ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1927ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1928ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1929ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19303903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1931ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1932ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1933ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1934ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1935ea637639SJie Zhang
1936ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1937ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1938ea637639SJie Zhang
1939ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1940ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1941ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1942ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1943ea637639SJie Zhang
1944ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1945ea637639SJie Zhang
1946091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1947091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1948091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1949091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1950091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1951d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1952091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1953091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1954091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1955091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1956091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1957091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
195882c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1959091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1960091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1961091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1962091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
196382c04ff8SPeter Foley
1964125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1965b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1966125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1967125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1968125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1969125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
19705f87f112SIngo Molnar#
19715f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
19725f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
19735f87f112SIngo Molnar#
197497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
19755f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
197697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
19771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19791572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
19801572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1981ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
19826341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1983ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
19841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1989c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1990c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
1991c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1992c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
199366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
199511097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20140b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20150b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2016826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2017826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2018826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2019826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
202091e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
202191e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
202291e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2023826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2029f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2030f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
203419c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
20430d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20522ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
20532ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
20542ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
20552ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
20562ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
20572ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
20582ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
20592ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
206056067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
206156067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
206256067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
206356067812SArd Biesheuvel
20641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2075106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2076106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2077c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2078106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2080106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2081cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2082106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2083228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2084228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2085228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2086228c37ffSDavid Howells
208749fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
208849fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
208949fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
209049fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
209149fcf732SDavid Howells
2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2097106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2098106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2099106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2100106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2101106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2102106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2104d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2105d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2106d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2107d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2108d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2109d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2110d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2111d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2112d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2113d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2114d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2128ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2129ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2130ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2131ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2133ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2134ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2135ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2136ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2137ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2138ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2139ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2140ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2141ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2142ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2143ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2144ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2145ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2146ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
214722753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
214822753674SMichal Marek	string
214922753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
215022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
215122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
215222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
215322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
215422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
215522753674SMichal Marek
2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2160b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2161b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2163b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2165b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2166b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2168b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2169b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2171b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2172b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2173b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2174beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2175beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2176beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2177beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2178beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2179beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2180beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2181beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2182beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2183beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2184beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2185beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2186beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2187beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2188beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2189beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2190beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2191beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2192beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
21933d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
21943d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
21953d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
21963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
21973d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
21983d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
21993d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22003d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22013d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22023d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22033d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22043d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22053d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2206efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2207efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2208efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	default y if X86
2209efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	help
2210efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
2211efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
2212efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2213efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2214efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2215efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2216efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2217efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
2218efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2219efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2220efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  your module is.
2221efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada
2222dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2223dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2224d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada	depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2225dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2226dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2227dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2228dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2229dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2230dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2231dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2232dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2233dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2234dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2235dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2236f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2237dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22381518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22391518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22401518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
22411518c633SQuentin Perret	help
22421518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
22431518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
22441518c633SQuentin Perret
22451518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
22461518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
22471518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
22481518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
22491518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
22501518c633SQuentin Perret
22510b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
22520b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
22536c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
22546c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
22556c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
22566c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
225798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
225898a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
225998a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
22605f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
22615f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
226298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
226398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2264692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
226598a79d6aSRusty Russell
22663a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2267e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2268e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2269e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2270e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
227116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
227216295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
227316295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
227416295becSSteffen Klassert
22754520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
22764520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
22774520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
22784520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
22794520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
22804520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
22814520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
22824520c6a4SDavid Howells
22836beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2284e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2285e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2286e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
22871bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
22881bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
22897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
22907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
22917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
22927303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
22937303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
22947303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
22951bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
22961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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