1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 85*deab487eSThomas Weißschuhconfig ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK 86*deab487eSThomas Weißschuh bool 87*deab487eSThomas Weißschuh 881a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 899371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 90*deab487eSThomas Weißschuh default ARCH_CC_CAN_LINK if ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK 9180623f2cSThomas Weißschuh default $(cc_can_link_user,$(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 9280623f2cSThomas Weißschuh default $(cc_can_link_user,$(m32-flag)) 931a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 103587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 104f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 106e2ffa15bSThomas Gleixner # Detect basic support 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108e2ffa15bSThomas Gleixner # Detect clang (< v17) scoped label issues 109fde0ab43SLinus Torvalds depends on $(success,echo 'void b(void **);void* c(void);int f(void){{asm goto(""::::l0);return 0;l0:return 1;}void *x __attribute__((cleanup(b)))=c();{asm goto(""::::l1);return 2;l1:return 3;}}' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 110587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1121aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 114534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1151aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1172d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1185cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 120eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 121eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 122f72e2cffSHeiko Carstensconfig CC_HAS_ASSUME 123f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens bool 124f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # clang needs to be at least 19.1.0 since the meaning of the assume 125f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # attribute changed: 126f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c44fa3e8a9a44c2e9a575768a3c185354b9f6c17 127f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190100 128f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # supported since gcc 13.1.0 129f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106654 130f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 130100 131f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens 13251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 13351c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 13451c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 135f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1365106c650SJan Hendrik Farr bool 13786a9b125SNathan Chancellor # clang needs to be at least 20.1.0 to avoid potential crashes 13886a9b125SNathan Chancellor # when building structures that contain __counted_by 13986a9b125SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2114 14086a9b125SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/160fb1121cdf703c3ef5e61fb26c5659eb581489 14186a9b125SNathan Chancellor default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 200100 1425106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # supported since gcc 15.1.0 1435106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896 1445106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 150100 145f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 146b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 147b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 148b688f369SKees Cook 149e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 150e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 151e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 152e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 153e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 15447cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 15547cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 15647cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 15736174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 15836174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 15936174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1607129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1617129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1627129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 1630aa2b78cSBoqun Fengconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_WITH_NUL 1640aa2b78cSBoqun Feng def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108900 1650aa2b78cSBoqun Feng 166c09461a0SAlice Ryhlconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_AS_C_STR 167c09461a0SAlice Ryhl def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 109100 168c09461a0SAlice Ryhl 169613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 170613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 171613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 172613fe169SNathan Chancellor 173b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 174b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 175b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 176e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 177fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 178e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 17910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1801dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1811dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 182c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 183c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 184c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 185c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 186c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 187c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 188c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 189c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 190c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 191c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 192ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 196fefbeed8SAndrew Morton help 197fefbeed8SAndrew Morton This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to 198fefbeed8SAndrew Morton compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to 199fefbeed8SAndrew Morton new infrastructure. 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 208dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 209dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 21234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2144bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 2154bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 216ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 2174bb16672SJiri Slaby help 2184bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 2194bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 2204bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 2214bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 2224bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 2234bb16672SJiri Slaby 2244bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 2254bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 2264bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2274bb16672SJiri Slaby 2283fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2293fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 230b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2313fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2323fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 234e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 235e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 236e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2373fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 238e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 239e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2403fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2413fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2423fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2433fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2443fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 245d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 246d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 247fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 248d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 249d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 250d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 251d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 252d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 253d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 254d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 265aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 266aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 267aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 268ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 269aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 270aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 273aaebf433SRyan Anderson 274aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 276aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2776e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 278aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2790f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2826e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 285aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2869afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2879afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2889afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2899afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2909afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2919afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2929afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2939afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2949afb719eSLaura Abbott 2952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 3002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 3012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 3022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 3032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 3043ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3053ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin 3077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 3097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 310e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 311e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 312e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 31348f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 31448f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 31548f7ddf7SNick Terrell 316f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 317f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 318f16466afSVasily Gorbik 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 32248f7ddf7SNick 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 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 32830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 32930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 33230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 33630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 33730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 33830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 34030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 34130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 34230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 34430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 34730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 34830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 34930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 35130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 35230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 35730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 35830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 35930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 36130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 36530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3663ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3673ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3683ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3693ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3703ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3713ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3723ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3733ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3747472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3757472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3767472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3773ebe1243SLasse Collin 3783ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3793ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3803ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3813ebe1243SLasse Collin 3827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3860a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 387681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 390e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 391e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 392e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 393e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 394e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 395e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 396e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 397e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 398e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 399e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 400e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 401e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 40248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 40348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 40448f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 40548f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 40648f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 40748f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 40848f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 40948f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 41048f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 41148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 412f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 413f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 414f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 415f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 416f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 417f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 418f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 419f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 420f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 421f16466afSVasily Gorbik 42230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 42330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 424ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 425ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 426ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 427ada4ab7aSChris Down help 428ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 429ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 430ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 431ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 432ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 433ada4ab7aSChris Down 434bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 435bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 436bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 437bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 438bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 439bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 440bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 441bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 442bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 445a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 458a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 459a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 460a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 461a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 462a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 463a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4640cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4650cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4660cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4670cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 47019c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 471a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 476b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 484bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 485bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 486bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 487bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 488bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 489bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 490c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 491c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 492c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 493c73be61cSDavid Howells help 494c73be61cSDavid Howells 495c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 496c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 497c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 498c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 499c73be61cSDavid Howells 500c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 501c73be61cSDavid Howells 502226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 503226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 504226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 505226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 506226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 507226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 508226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 509a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 510226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 511226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 5121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 514804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 518cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 519cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5217a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5227a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5237a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 525cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5267a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 52728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 52874c3cbe3SAl Viro 529d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 530764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 531b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 53287a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 533d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 536abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 537abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 538abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 540fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 54102382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 542fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 543fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 545fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 546c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 547fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 548fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 549fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 550fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 551fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 552fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 553fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 556c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 567abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 568abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 56924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 570554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 571041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 572abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 57324a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 574abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 575abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 576abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 577abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 578abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 579abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 580abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 581abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 582abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 583abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 584abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 585abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 586b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 587b58c3584SRik van Riel 588fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 589fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 590b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 591fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 592fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 593fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 594fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 595fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 596fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 597fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 598fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 59911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 60011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 60111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 60211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 60311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 604d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 60598eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 606fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 607fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 60876504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 60998eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 61098eb401dSValentin Schneider help 611d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 612d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 61398eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 614d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 615d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 61698eb401dSValentin Schneider 61798eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 61898eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 61998eb401dSValentin Schneider 62098eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 621d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 62276504793SThara Gopinath 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6252813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6443903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 65019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6522813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 66419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 666f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 671391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 672391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 674391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 675391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 67619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 677391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 678391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 679391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 680391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 681391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 682391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 683391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 684391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 68519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 686391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 687391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 688391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 689391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 690391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 691391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 692391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 693eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 694eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 69598dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 696eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 697eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 698eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 699eb414681SJohannes Weiner 700eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 701eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 702eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 703eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 704eb414681SJohannes Weiner 7052ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 7062ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 7072ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 7082ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 709c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 710eb414681SJohannes Weiner 711eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 712eb414681SJohannes Weiner 713e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 714e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 715e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 716e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 717e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 718e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 719428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 720428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 721e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7227b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7237b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7247b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7257b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7267b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7277b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7287b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7297b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7307b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7317b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 733391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 734391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7355c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7365c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 73797577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7382c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7395c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7405c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7415c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7422c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7432c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7442c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7452c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7470af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 748c903ff83SMike Travis 7491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 750f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 751a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 764a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 768f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 769f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 770f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 77143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 772f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 773f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 774f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 775f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 77643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 777794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 778794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7791c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 780f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 781361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 782794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 788f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 789f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 790f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 791f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 792f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 793794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 794794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 795794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7982240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 801320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 802361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 81123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 81223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 81323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 81423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 8150f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8215e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8225e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 82423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 82523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 82623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 83123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 83233701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 83333701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 83433701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 83533701557SChris Down help 83633701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 83733701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 83833701557SChris Down 83933701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 84033701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 84133701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 84233701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 84333701557SChris Down 84433701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 84533701557SChris Down 8465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 85238ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 85338ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 85438ff87f7SStephen Boyd 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 88769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 88869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 88969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 89069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 89169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 89269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 89369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 89469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 89569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 89669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 89869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 89969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 90069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 90169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 90269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 90369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 90469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 90569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 90625c411fcSJohn Stultzconfig SCHED_PROXY_EXEC 90725c411fcSJohn Stultz bool "Proxy Execution" 90825c411fcSJohn Stultz # Avoid some build failures w/ PREEMPT_RT until it can be fixed 90925c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !PREEMPT_RT 91025c411fcSJohn Stultz # Need to investigate how to inform sched_ext of split contexts 91125c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT 91225c411fcSJohn Stultz # Not particularly useful until we get to multi-rq proxying 91325c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on EXPERT 91425c411fcSJohn Stultz help 91525c411fcSJohn Stultz This option enables proxy execution, a mechanism for mutex-owning 91625c411fcSJohn Stultz tasks to inherit the scheduling context of higher priority waiters. 91725c411fcSJohn Stultz 91869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 91969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 927be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 92872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 92972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 93072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 93172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 93272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 93372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 93472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 93572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 93672b252aeSMel Gorman 937c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9383a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 939c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 940dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 941dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 942158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 943dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 944dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9453e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9460da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9473e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9485a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9495a41237aSLinus Torvalds 950f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 951f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9528e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 953f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 95402153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 95502153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 956a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 957a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 958a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 959a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 96002153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 961a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 962a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 963a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 964a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 965a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 96672b252aeSMel Gorman# 967be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 968be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 969be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 970be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 971be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 972be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 973be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 974be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 975be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 976be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 977be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 978be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 979be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 980be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 981be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 982554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 983be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 984be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 985be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9866d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 987be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 988be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 989be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9946f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9956f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9966f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9976f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 99821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 99921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 100021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 100123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 10026341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 10032bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 1004ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 100523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 10065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 10075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 10085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 1009d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 1010da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 101145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 1012ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 1013ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 1014ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 101523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 101623964d2dSLi Zefan 10173e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 10183e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 10193e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 10206a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 10216a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 10226a010a49STejun Heo help 10236a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 10246a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 10256a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 10266a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 10276a010a49STejun Heo 10286a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10296a010a49STejun Heo 1030c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1031a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10323e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 103379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 103421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 1035fdc5001bSKirill A. Shutemov select VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 103600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1037a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 103800f0b825SBalbir Singh 103925352d2fSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE 104025352d2fSShakeel Butt bool 104125352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 104225352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 104325352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 104425352d2fSShakeel Butt default y 104525352d2fSShakeel Butt 1046940b01fcSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC 1047940b01fcSShakeel Butt bool 1048940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 1049940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 1050940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1051940b01fcSShakeel Butt default y 1052940b01fcSShakeel Butt 1053e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1054e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1055c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1056e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1057e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1058e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1059e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1060e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1061e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1062e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1063e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1064e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1065e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1066e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1067e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1068fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 106984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10732bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1074a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1083e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10877baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1090da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1096e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10977c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1098a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10997c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11007c941438SDhaval Giani help 11017c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 11027c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 11037c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 11047c941438SDhaval Giani 11057c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1106e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1107e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1108e179e80cSTejun Heo 1109ddceadceSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1110ddceadceSTejun Heo def_bool n 1111ddceadceSTejun Heo 11127c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11137c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 11147c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1115e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 11167c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 11177c941438SDhaval Giani 1118ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1119ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1120ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1121ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1122ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1123ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1124ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1125ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1126ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1127ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1128d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1129ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11307c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11317c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11327c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11337c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11347c941438SDhaval Giani help 11357c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 113632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11377c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11387c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1139d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 11407c941438SDhaval Giani 1141e34e0131SMichal Koutnýconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED 1142e34e0131SMichal Koutný bool "Require boot parameter to enable group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1143e34e0131SMichal Koutný depends on RT_GROUP_SCHED 1144e34e0131SMichal Koutný default n 1145e34e0131SMichal Koutný help 1146e34e0131SMichal Koutný When set, the RT group scheduling is disabled by default. The option 1147e34e0131SMichal Koutný is in inverted form so that mere RT_GROUP_SCHED enables the group 1148e34e0131SMichal Koutný scheduling. 1149e34e0131SMichal Koutný 1150e34e0131SMichal Koutný Say N if unsure. 1151e34e0131SMichal Koutný 115281951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 115381951366STejun Heo bool 115481951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 115581951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1156ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 115781951366STejun Heo default y 115881951366STejun Heo 11597c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11607c941438SDhaval Giani 1161af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1162af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1163af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1164af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11652480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11662480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11672480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11682480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11692480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11702480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11712480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11722480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11732480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11742480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11752480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11762480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11772480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11782480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11792480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11802480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11812480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11822480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11832480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11842480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11852480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11862480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11966cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 119998076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 120339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 120439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 120539d3e758SParav Pandit help 120639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 120739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 120839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 120939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 121039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 121139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 121239d3e758SParav Pandit 1213b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1214b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1215e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1216b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1217b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1218b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1219b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1220b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1221b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1222b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1229489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1230489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1231489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1232489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1233489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1238afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 12396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 12426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 12446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 12476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 12486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1249afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12506bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 12516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1252e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1253bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 12546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 12566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1259afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1261afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12621abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12631abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12641abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12651abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12661abab1baSChen Ridong help 12671abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12681abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1269dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1270dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12711abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12721abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12731abab1baSChen Ridong 12741abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12751abab1baSChen Ridong 12766bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1278dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 127989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 128089e9b9e0STejun Heo 12816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12996546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 13006546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 13016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 13026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 13036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 130430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 130530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1306483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1307483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 130830070984SDaniel Mack help 130930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 131030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 131130070984SDaniel Mack 131230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 131330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 131430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 131530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 131630070984SDaniel Mack 1317a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1318a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1319a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1320a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1321a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1322a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1323a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1324a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1325a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1326a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1327a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1328a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1329a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1330a72232eaSVipin Sharma 13316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 133223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 13336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 133423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 13356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 13366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 133723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 133823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 133923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 13406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 13416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 13426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 134373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 134473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 134573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 134673b35147SArnd Bergmann 134723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1348c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 13498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 13512813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 13526a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1353c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1354c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1355c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1356c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1357c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1358c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 136158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 136258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 136317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 136458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 136558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 136658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 136758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1368769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1369769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1370bad53ae2SThomas Weißschuh depends on GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 1371769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1372769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1373769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1374769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1375769071acSAndrei Vagin 1376ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1377ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 137917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1380ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1381ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1382614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1383ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1384aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 138519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13865673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1387aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1388aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1389aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1390e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1391e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1392d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1393d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1394d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1395e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1396aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1397aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 139874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13999bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 140017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 140174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 140212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1403692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 140474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 140574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1406d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1407d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 14088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 140917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1410d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1411d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1412d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1413d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 14148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 14158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 14165cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 14175cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 141830341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 14195cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1420bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 14215cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 14225cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 14235cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 14245cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 14255cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 14265cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 14275cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14285cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 14295cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14305091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 14315091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 14325091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 14335091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 14345091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 14355091faa4SMike Galbraith help 14365091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 14375091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 14385091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 14395091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 14405091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 14415091faa4SMike Galbraith 14427af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 14437af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 144426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14457af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 14467af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 14477af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 14487af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 14497af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 14507af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 14517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 14527af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 14537af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1454f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1455f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1456f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1457f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1458f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1459f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1460f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14618c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1462f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1463f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1464f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1465f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1466f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1467f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1468f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1469c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1470c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1471dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1472dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1473c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1474c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 147576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 147676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1477a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 147876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 147976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 148076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14810947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 148285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14830947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 148476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 148576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 148676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1487b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1488b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1489b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14906ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1491b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1492b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1493b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1494b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1495b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1496b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1497b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1498b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1499b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1500a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1501a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1502a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1503a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1504a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1505a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1506a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1507a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1508a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1509a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1510a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1511a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1512a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1513a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1514a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1515a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1516a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1517a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1518a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 15191274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 15201274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 152174792608SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD 15221274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 15231274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 15241274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 15251274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 15261274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 15271274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 15281274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 15291274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 153083c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 153183c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 153283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 153383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 153483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 153583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 153683c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1537877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1538877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 15392cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1540877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1541877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 154215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1543877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1544877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1545877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1546877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1547877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1548c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 154915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1550c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1551ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1552ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1553c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1554877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1555877417e6SArnd Bergmann 15565d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15665d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1570e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1571e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15738b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15748b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15758b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 158459612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 158559612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 158659612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 158759612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1588e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1589e1789d7cSXin Li 1590e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1591e1789d7cSXin Li string 1592e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1593e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1594e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 159559612b24SNathan Chancellor 15960847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15970847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15980847062aSRandy Dunlap 1599657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1600657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1601657a5209SMike Frysinger 1602657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1603657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1604657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1605657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1606657a5209SMike Frysinger 1607657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1608657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1609657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1610657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1611657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1612657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1613657a5209SMike Frysinger 1614657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1615657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1616657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1617657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1618657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1619657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1620657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1621657a5209SMike Frysinger 1622c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1623c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1624c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1625c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1626c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1627c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1628c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1629c443279aSChristian Brauner 1630c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1631c443279aSChristian Brauner 1632657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1633657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1634657a5209SMike Frysinger 16356a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 16366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1637f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1638f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1645ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 16466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 16472813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1648ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1649ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1650ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1651ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16522813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 16532813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 16542813893fSIulia Manda default y 16552813893fSIulia Manda help 16562813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 16572813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16582813893fSIulia Manda 16592813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16602813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16612813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16622813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16632813893fSIulia Manda 16642813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16652813893fSIulia Manda 1666f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1667f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1668cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1669a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1670f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1671f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1672f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1673f6187769SFabian Frederick 1674f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1675f6187769SFabian Frederick 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1689baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1690baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1691baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1692baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1693baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1694baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1695baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1696baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1697baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1698baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1699baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1700baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1701baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1702baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1703baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1704baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1705baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1706d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1707d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 17086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 170974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1710d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1711d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1712d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1713d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1714d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1715d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1716d59745ceSMatt Mackall 17175ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuhconfig PRINTK_RINGBUFFER_KUNIT_TEST 17185ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh tristate "KUnit Test for the printk ringbuffer" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 17195ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh depends on PRINTK && KUNIT 17205ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 17215ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh help 17225ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh This builds the printk ringbuffer KUnit test suite. 17235ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 17245ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 17255ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh to the KUnit documentation. 17265ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 17275ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh If unsure, say N. 17285ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 1729c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 17306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1731c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1732c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1733c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1734c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1735c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1736c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1737c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1738c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1739708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1740046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1741708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 17426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1743708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1744708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1745708e9a79SMatt Mackall 17468761f1abSRalf Baechle 1747e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 17486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 17498761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 175015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1751e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1752e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1753e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1754e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1755e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 175627021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 175727021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 175927021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 17646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 17653f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1767bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1773bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1774bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1775bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1776bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1777bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 177880367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 177980367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior bool 178080367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on FUTEX && !BASE_SMALL && MMU 178180367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y 178280367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 1783c042c505SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUTEX_MPOL 1784c042c505SPeter Zijlstra bool 1785c042c505SPeter Zijlstra depends on FUTEX && NUMA 1786c042c505SPeter Zijlstra default y 1787c042c505SPeter Zijlstra 17881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1795fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1797fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1798fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1799fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1800fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1801fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1802fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1803fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1804b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 18056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1806b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1807b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1808b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1809b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1810b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1811b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1812b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1813e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 18146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1815e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1816e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1817e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1818e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1819e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1820e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1821e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 18221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 18236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1833ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 18346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1835ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1836ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1837ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1838ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1839ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1840ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 18412b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 18422b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1843561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 18442b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 18452b188cc1SJens Axboe help 18462b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 18472b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 18482b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 18492b188cc1SJens Axboe 18501802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 18511802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 1852d1fbe1ebSRandy Dunlap depends on IO_URING && GCOV_KERNEL 18531802656eSJens Axboe help 18541802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 18551802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 18561802656eSJens Axboe 18571802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 18581802656eSJens Axboe 18591802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 18601802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 18611802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 18621802656eSJens Axboe 18633a0ae385SPavel Begunkovconfig IO_URING_MOCK_FILE 18643a0ae385SPavel Begunkov tristate "Enable io_uring mock files (Experimental)" if EXPERT 18653a0ae385SPavel Begunkov default n 18663a0ae385SPavel Begunkov depends on IO_URING 18673a0ae385SPavel Begunkov help 18683a0ae385SPavel Begunkov Enable mock files for io_uring subststem testing. The ABI might 18693a0ae385SPavel Begunkov still change, so it's still experimental and should only be enabled 18703a0ae385SPavel Begunkov for specific test purposes. 18713a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 18723a0ae385SPavel Begunkov If unsure, say N. 18733a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 1874d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1875d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1876d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1877d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1878d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1879d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1880d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1881d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1882d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1883d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 18845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 18855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 18865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 18875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 18885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 18895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 18905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1896a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1897a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1898a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1899a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1900a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1901a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1902a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1903a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1904a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1905a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1906a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1907a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1908a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1909a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1910a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1911a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1912a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1913a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1914a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1915a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1916a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1917a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1918a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1919a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1920a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1921a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1922a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1923a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1924a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1925a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1926a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1927a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1928a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1929a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1930a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1931a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1932a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1933a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1934a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1935a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1936a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1937a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1938a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1939d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1940d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1941d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1942d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1943d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1944d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1945d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1946d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 194730f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 194830f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 194930f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 195030f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 195130f3bb09SZhen Lei help 195230f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 195330f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 195430f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 195530f3bb09SZhen Lei 195630f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 195730f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 195830f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 195930f3bb09SZhen Lei 1960d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1961d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1962d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1963d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1964d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1965d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1966bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1967bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1968bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1969bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1970d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1971d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1972d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1973d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1974d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1975d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1976bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1977d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1978d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1979d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 19803ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 19813ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 19823ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 198370216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 198470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 198570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19865796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19875796d396SJeff Xu bool 19885796d396SJeff Xu help 19895796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19905796d396SJeff Xu 19915796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19925796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19935796d396SJeff Xu 19945796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19955796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19965796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19975796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19985796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19995796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 20005796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 20015796d396SJeff Xu 20025796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 20035796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 20045796d396SJeff Xu 20055796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 20065796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 20075796d396SJeff Xu 2008cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 20090793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 2010018df72dSMike Frysinger help 2011018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 20120793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20132aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 20142aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 20152aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 20162aef6f30SSean Christopherson 2017906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2018906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 2019906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2020906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 2021906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 202257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 20230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2024cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 202557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 2026392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 2027cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 2028e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 20290793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 203057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 203157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 20320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2033dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 203457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 203557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 203657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 203757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 20380793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 20390793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 20400793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 20410793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 20420793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 20430793a61dSThomas Gleixner 204457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 2045dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 204657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 20470793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 20480793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 20490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20500793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 20510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2052906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2053906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 2054906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 2055cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 2056906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2057906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2058906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 2059906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2060906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 2061906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 2062906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2063906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 2064906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 20650793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 20660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2067091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2068091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2069091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2070091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2071091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2072d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2073091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2074091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2075091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2076091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2077091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2078091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 207982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2080091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2081091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2082091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2083091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 208482c04ff8SPeter Foley 2085125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2086b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2087125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2088125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2089f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2090125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20912f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20942f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2095ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2096ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2097f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20995daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 210023ef9d43SKees Cook depends on !CFI || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 210123ef9d43SKees Cook select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI 2102af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2103f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 210493e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 21052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 21062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 21072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 21092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 21102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 21122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 21132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 21152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 21172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21182f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 21192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 21202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 21215134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 21225134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 21235134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 21242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21252f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 21262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 21272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 21289e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2129c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2130c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2131c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2132c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2133aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 21342f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21355f87f112SIngo Molnar# 21365f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 21375f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 21385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 213997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 21405f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2141a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 214297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 214389cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 214489cde455SEric DeVolder 21451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 21461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21471572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 21481572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2149ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 21506341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21511c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2152ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2153c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2154c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2155c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2156c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 215773b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 21586c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 215998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 216098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 216198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21625f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21635f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 216498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 216598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2166692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 216798a79d6aSRusty Russell 21683a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2169e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2170e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2171e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2172e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 217316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 217416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 217516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 217616295becSSteffen Klassert 21774520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21784520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21794520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21804520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21814520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21824520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21834520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21844520c6a4SDavid Howells 21856beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2186e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21870ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21880ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21890ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21904ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21914ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21924ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2193e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2194e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21951bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21997303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22007303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22031bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2205