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 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 22f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 23*ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 24*ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada line so fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the 25*ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 26*ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 29aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 36469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 37aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 38b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 39469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 40469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 41aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 42aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 43469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 4402aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4502aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4602aff859SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 54c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 55d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 56d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 5702aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 5802aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 601a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 619371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 62b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 63b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 641a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 65b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 66b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 67b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 68b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 70e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 71e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 72e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 73587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 74587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 75587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 76587f1701SNick Desaulniers 775cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 782d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 795cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 80eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 81eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 82eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 83b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 84b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 85b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 86e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 87e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 88e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 8910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 901dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 911dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 92c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 93c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 95c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 96c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 97c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 99c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 100c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 101c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 102ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 114dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 115dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 11834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1204bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1214bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 122334ef6edSHeiko Carstens depends on !UML && !S390 1234bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 1244bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1254bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1264bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1274bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1284bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1294bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1304bb16672SJiri Slaby 1314bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1324bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1334bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1344bb16672SJiri Slaby 135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 137fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 139d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 140d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 141d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 142d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 143d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 144d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 155aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 156aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 157aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 158ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 159aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 160aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 163aaebf433SRyan Anderson 164aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 166aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 168aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1706e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1746e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 175aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1769afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1779afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1789afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1799afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1809afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1819afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1829afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1839afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1849afb719eSLaura Abbott 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1943ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20348f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 20448f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 20548f7ddf7SNick Terrell 206f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 207f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 208f16466afSVasily Gorbik 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 21248f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2563ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2573ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2583ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2593ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2603ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2613ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2623ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2633ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2643ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2653ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2663ebe1243SLasse Collin 2673ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2683ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2693ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2703ebe1243SLasse Collin 2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 276681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 289e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 290e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 29148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 29248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 29348f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 29548f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 29648f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 29848f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 29948f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 30048f7ddf7SNick Terrell 301f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 302f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 303f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 304f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 305f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 306f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 307f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 308f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 309f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 310f16466afSVasily Gorbik 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 313ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 314ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 315ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 316ada4ab7aSChris Down help 317ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 318ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 319ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 320ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 321ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 322ada4ab7aSChris Down 323bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 324bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 326bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 327bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 328bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 329bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 330bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 331bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 33317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 33417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 33517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 33617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 33717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 33817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 34117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 351a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 364a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 365a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 366a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 367a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 368a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 369a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 37219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 373a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 378b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 386bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 387bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 388bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 389bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 390bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 391bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 392c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 393c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 394c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 395c73be61cSDavid Howells help 396c73be61cSDavid Howells 397c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 398c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 399c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 400c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 401c73be61cSDavid Howells 402c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 403c73be61cSDavid Howells 404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 405226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 406226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 408226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 409226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 410226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 411a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 412226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 413226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 41469369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 41569369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 416b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 41769369a70SJosh Triplett help 41869369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 41969369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 42069369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 42169369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 42269369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 42369369a70SJosh Triplett 4241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 426804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 430cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 431cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4337a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4357a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 437cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4387a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 43928a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 44074c3cbe3SAl Viro 441d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 442764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 44387a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 444d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 45302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 458c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 466abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 468c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 469abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 481ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 482554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 483041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 498b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 499b58c3584SRik van Riel 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 502b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 51111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 51211d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 51311d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 51411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 51511d4afd4SVincent Guittot 51676504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 51798eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 518fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 519fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 52076504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 52198eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 52298eb401dSValentin Schneider help 52398eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 52498eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 52598eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 52698eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 52798eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 52898eb401dSValentin Schneider 52998eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 53098eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 53198eb401dSValentin Schneider 53298eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 533432900f8SYue Hu arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 53476504793SThara Gopinath 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5372813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5563903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 56219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5642813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 57619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 578f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 58819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 59719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 605eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 606eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 607eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 608eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 609eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 610eb414681SJohannes Weiner 611eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 612eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 613eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 614eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 615eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6192ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 620c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 621eb414681SJohannes Weiner 622eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 623eb414681SJohannes Weiner 624e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 625e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 626e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 627e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 628e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 629e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 630428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 631428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 632e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6475c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 648414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6580af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 659c903ff83SMike Travis 660de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 661de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 662de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 663de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 665f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 666a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 679a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 683f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 684f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 685f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 68643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 687f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 688f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 689f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 690f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 69143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 692794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 693794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 694550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 25 if !H8300 695550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 19 if H8300 696f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 697361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 698794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 69923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 70023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 70123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 70223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 704f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 705f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 706f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 708f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 710794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 711794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7142240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 718361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7310f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7385e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 748f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 750427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 751427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 752f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 753427934b8SPetr Mladek help 754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 755f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 756f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 757f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 758f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 759427934b8SPetr Mladek 760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 761427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 762427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 763427934b8SPetr Mladek 764427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 765427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 766427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 767427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 768427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 769427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 770427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 771427934b8SPetr Mladek 7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 77838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 77938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 78038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 841be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 84272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 84372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 84472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 84572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 84672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 84772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 84872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 84972b252aeSMel Gorman bool 85072b252aeSMel Gorman 851c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8523a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 853c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 85472b252aeSMel Gorman# 855be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 856be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 857be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 858be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 859be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8746d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 88623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8876341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8882bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 889ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 89023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 894d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 895da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 89645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 897ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 898ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 899ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 90023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 90123964d2dSLi Zefan 9023e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9043e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 905c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 906a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 90879bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 90900f0b825SBalbir Singh help 910a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 91100f0b825SBalbir Singh 912c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9132d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 914c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 915a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 916c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 91784c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 91884c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 91984c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 92084c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 92184c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 926a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9302bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 935e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9397baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 942da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 948e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9497c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 950a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9517c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9527c941438SDhaval Giani help 9537c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9547c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9557c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9567c941438SDhaval Giani 9577c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9587c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9597c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9607c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9617c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9627c941438SDhaval Giani 963ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 964ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 965ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 966ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 967ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 968ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 969ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 970ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 971ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 972d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 973ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9747c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9757c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9767c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9777c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9787c941438SDhaval Giani help 9797c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 98032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9817c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9827c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 983d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9847c941438SDhaval Giani 9857c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9867c941438SDhaval Giani 9872480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10186cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 102198076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 102639d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 102739d3e758SParav Pandit help 102839d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 102939d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 103039d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 103139d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 103239d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 103339d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 103439d3e758SParav Pandit 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1041489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1042489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1043489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1044489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1045489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1050afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1064e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1070afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 107689e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 107789e9b9e0STejun Heo 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10966546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10976546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 110130070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 110230070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1103483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1104483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 110530070984SDaniel Mack help 110630070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 110730070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 110830070984SDaniel Mack 110930070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 111030070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 111130070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 111230070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 111330070984SDaniel Mack 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 111523b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 111723b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 112023b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 112123b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 112223b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 112673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 112773b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 112873b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 112973b35147SArnd Bergmann 113023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1131c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11342813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11356a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1136c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1137c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1138c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1139c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1140c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1141c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11428dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 114458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 114558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 114617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 114758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 114858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 114958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 115058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1151769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1152769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1153660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1154769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1155769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1156769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1157769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1158769071acSAndrei Vagin 1159ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1160ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 116217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1163ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1164ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1165614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1166ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1167aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 116819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11695673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1170aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1171aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1172aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1173e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1174e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1175d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1176d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1177d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1178e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1179aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1180aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 118174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11829bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 118317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 118474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 118512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1186692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 118774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 118874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1189d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1190d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 119217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1193d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1194d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1195d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1196d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11995cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12005cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 12015cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1202bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12035cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12045cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12055cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12065cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12075cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12085cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12095cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12105cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12115cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12125091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12135091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12145091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12155091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12165091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12175091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12185091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12195091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12205091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12215091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12225091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12235091faa4SMike Galbraith 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12255d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12485d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 126426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12818c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1289c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1290c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1291dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1292dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1293c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1294c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 129576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 129676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12972910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 129876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 129976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 130076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13010947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 130285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13030947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 130476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 130576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 130676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1307877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1308877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13092cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1310877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1311877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 131215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1313877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1314877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1315877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1316877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1317877417e6SArnd Bergmann 131815f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 131915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 132015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1321c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 132215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 132315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1324c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13255d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 132615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1327c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1328ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1329ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1330c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1331877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1332877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13335d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 13425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13435d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1347e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1348e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13508b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 13518b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 13528b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 13575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 13585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 13595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 13605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 136159612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 136259612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 136359612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1364d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000 136559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 136659612b24SNathan Chancellor 13670847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13680847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13690847062aSRandy Dunlap 1370657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1371657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1372657a5209SMike Frysinger 1373657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1374657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1375657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1376657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1377657a5209SMike Frysinger 1378657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1379657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1380657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1381657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1382657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1383657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1384657a5209SMike Frysinger 1385657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1386657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1387657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1388657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1389657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1390657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1391657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1392657a5209SMike Frysinger 1393657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1394657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1395657a5209SMike Frysinger 1396f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1397f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1398f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1399f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14006a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1402f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1403f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1410ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14122813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1413ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1414ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1415ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1416ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14172813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14182813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14192813893fSIulia Manda default y 14202813893fSIulia Manda help 14212813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14222813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14232813893fSIulia Manda 14242813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14252813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14262813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14272813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14282813893fSIulia Manda 14292813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14302813893fSIulia Manda 1431f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1432f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1433a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1434a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1435f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1436f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1437f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1438f6187769SFabian Frederick 1439f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1440f6187769SFabian Frederick 14416af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1444a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 14456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14466af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14476af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14486af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14506af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1465baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1466baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1467baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1468baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1469baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1470baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1471baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1472baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1473baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1474baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1475baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1476baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1477baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1478baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1479baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1480baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1481d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1482d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 148474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1485d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1486d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1487d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1488d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1489d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1490d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1491d59745ceSMatt Mackall 149242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 149342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 149442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 149542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 149642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1497c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1499c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1500c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1501c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1502c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1503c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1504c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1505c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1506c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1507708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1508046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1509708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1511708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1512708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1513708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15148761f1abSRalf Baechle 1515e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15178761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 151815f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1519e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1520e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1521e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1522e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1523e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1535bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1541bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1542bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1543bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1544bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1545bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 154703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 154862b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 154903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 155003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 155103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 155203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 155303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1561fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1563fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1564fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1565fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1566fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1567fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1568fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1569fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1570b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1572b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1573b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1574b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1575b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1576b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1577b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1578b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1579e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1581e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1582e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1583e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1584e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1585e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1586e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1587e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1599ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1601ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1602ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1603ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1604ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1605ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1606ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16072b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16082b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1609561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16102b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16112b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16122b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16132b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16142b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16152b188cc1SJens Axboe 1616d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1617d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1618d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1619d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1620d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1621d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1622d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1623d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1624d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1625d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16265a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 16275a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 16285a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 16295a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 16305a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 16315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1676a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1694fc611f47SKP Singh 1695fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1696fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16974edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1698fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1699fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1700fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1701fc611f47SKP Singh help 1702fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1703fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1704fc611f47SKP Singh 1705fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1706fc611f47SKP Singh 1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1710bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 17111e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 171781c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 171881c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 171981c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1720290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1721290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1722290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1723290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1724290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1725290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1726290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 172781c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 172881c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 172981c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 173081c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1731d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1732d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 17403ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17413ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17423ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 174370216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 174470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 174570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1746bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1747bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1748bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1749bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1750bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1751bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1752bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1753bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1754bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1755bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1756d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1757d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1758d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1759d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1760d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1761d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1763d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1764d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1765d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1766d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1767d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1768d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1769d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1770d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1774d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1775d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1776d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1777d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1778d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17796befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17806befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17815d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17826befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17836befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1788cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17890793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1790018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1791018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17920793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1793906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1794906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1795906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1796906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1797906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1798ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1799424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1800ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1801ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1802ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1803ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1804ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 180557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1807cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 180857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1809392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1810cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1811e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 181283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18130793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 181457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 181557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1817dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 181857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 181957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 182057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 182157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18220793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18230793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18250793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18260793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 182857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1829dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 183057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18310793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18320793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18330793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1836906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1837906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1838906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1839cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1840906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1841906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1842906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1843906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1844906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1845906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1846906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1847906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1848906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1851f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1852f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1854f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18552aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18562aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18576a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18582aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1859f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 186041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 186141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1863f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 186441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 186541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 186641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 186741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 186841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 186941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1870b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1871b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1872b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1873b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1874b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1875b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1876b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1877692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1878b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1879b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1880b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1881b943c460SRandy Dunlap 188281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 188381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1884a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 188581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 188681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 188781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 188881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 188981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 189004385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 189181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 189281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 189334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 189402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 189581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 189681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 189781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1898ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 189981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 190081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 190181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 190281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 190381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 190402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 190502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 190681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 190781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 19086a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 190981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 191081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 191137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 191237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 191337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 191581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 191681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 19177660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 19187660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 19197660a6fdSKees Cook default y 19207660a6fdSKees Cook help 19217660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 19227660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 19237660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 19247660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 19257660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 19267660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 19277660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 19287660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 19297660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 19307660a6fdSKees Cook 1931c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 19323404be67SKees Cook bool "Randomize slab freelist" 1933210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1934c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1935210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1936c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1937c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1938c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 19392482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 19402482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 19413404be67SKees Cook depends on SLAB || SLUB 19422482ddecSKees Cook help 19432482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 19442482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 194592bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 19463404be67SKees Cook freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 19473404be67SKees Cook sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 19483404be67SKees Cook CONFIG_SLUB. 19492482ddecSKees Cook 1950e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1951e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1952e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1953e900a918SDan Williams help 1954e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1955e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1956e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1957e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1958e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1959e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1960e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1961e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1962e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1963e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1964e900a918SDan Williams 1965e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1966e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1967e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1968e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1969e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1970e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1971e900a918SDan Williams 1972e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1973e900a918SDan Williams 1974345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1975345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1976b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1977345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1978345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 197992bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1980345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1981345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1982345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1983345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1984345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1985ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1986ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19876a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1988ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1989ea637639SJie Zhang help 1990ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19913903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1992ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1993ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1994ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1995ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1996ea637639SJie Zhang 1997ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1998ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1999ea637639SJie Zhang 2000ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2001ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2002ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2003ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 2004ea637639SJie Zhang 2005dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2006ea637639SJie Zhang 2007091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2008091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2009091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2010091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2011091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2012d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2013091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2014091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2015091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2016091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2017091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2018091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 201982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2020091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2021091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2022091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2023091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 202482c04ff8SPeter Foley 2025125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2026b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2027125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2028125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2029f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2030125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20315f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20325f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20335f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20345f87f112SIngo Molnar# 203597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20365f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 203797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 20381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20401572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20411572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2042ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2044ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 20451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2050c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2051c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2052c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2053c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 205466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 205611097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20750b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20760b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2077826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2078826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2079826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2080826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 208191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 208291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 208391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2084826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2090f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2091f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 209519c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 21021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 21040d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21132ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 21142ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 21152ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 21162ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 21172ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 21182ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 21192ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 21202ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 212156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 212256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 212356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 212456067812SArd Biesheuvel 21251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 21261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 21291da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 21341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 21351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2136106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2137106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2138c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2139106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2140106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2141106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2142cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2143106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2144228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2145228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2146228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2147228c37ffSDavid Howells 214849fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 214949fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 215049fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 215149fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 215249fcf732SDavid Howells 2153ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2154ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2155ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2156ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2157ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2158106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2159106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2160106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2161106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2162106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2163106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2164ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2165d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2166d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2167d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2168d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2169d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2170d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2171d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2172d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2173d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2174d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2175d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2184ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2185ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 220822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 220922753674SMichal Marek string 221022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 221122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 221222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 221322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 221422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 221522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 221622753674SMichal Marek 2217beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2218beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2219beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2220beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2221b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2222b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2224b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2225beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2226b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2227b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2228beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2229b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2230b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2231beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2232b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2233b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2234b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2235beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2236beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2237beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2238beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2240beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2243beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2244beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2245beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2246beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2247beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2249beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2250beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2251beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2252beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2253beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 22543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 22553d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 22563d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 22573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 22583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 22593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 22603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 22613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 22623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 22633d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 22643d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 22653d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 22663d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2267dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2268a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT 2269a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds depends on !COMPILE_TEST 2270dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2271dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2272dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2273dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2274dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2275dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2276dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2277dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2278dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2279dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2280dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2281f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2282dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22831518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22841518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22851518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22861518c633SQuentin Perret help 22871518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22881518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22891518c633SQuentin Perret 22901518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22911518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22921518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22931518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22941518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22951518c633SQuentin Perret 22960b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22970b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22986c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22996c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 23006c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 23016c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 230298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 230398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 230498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 23055f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 23065f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 230798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 230898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2309692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 231098a79d6aSRusty Russell 23113a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2312e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2313e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2314e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2315e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 231616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 231716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 231816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 231916295becSSteffen Klassert 23204520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 23214520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 23224520c6a4SDavid Howells help 23234520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 23244520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 23254520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 23264520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 23274520c6a4SDavid Howells 23286beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2329e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 23300ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 23310ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 23320ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2333e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2334e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 23351bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 23361bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 23377303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 23387303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 23397303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 23407303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 23417303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 23427303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 23431bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 23441bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2345