1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12*e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 24*e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 28469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 29469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 301a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 311a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 321a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 33e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 34e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 35e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 365cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 372d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 385cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 39eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 40eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 41eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 42b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 43b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 4487c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 46e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 47e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 48e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 4910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 501dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 511dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 52c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 53c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 54c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 59c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 60c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 61c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 62ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 75dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 804bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 814bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 82bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 834bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 844bb16672SJiri Slaby help 854bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 864bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 874bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 884bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 894bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 904bb16672SJiri Slaby 914bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 924bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 934bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 944bb16672SJiri Slaby 95d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 96d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 97fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 98d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 99d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 100d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 101d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 102d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 103d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 104d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 115aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 118ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 119aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 120aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 124aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 126aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 128aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1316e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 135aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1369afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1379afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1389afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1399afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1409afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1419afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1429afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1439afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1449afb719eSLaura Abbott 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1543ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1553ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1563ebe1243SLasse Collin 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 160e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 161e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 162e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 163f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 164f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 165f16466afSVasily Gorbik 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 169f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2000a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2100a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2110a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2133ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2143ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2153ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2163ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2173ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2213ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2223ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2253ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin 2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 233681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 241e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 242e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 248f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 249f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 250f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 251f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 252f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 253f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 254f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 255f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 262bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 263bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 264bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 265bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 266bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 267bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 268bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 26917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 27217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 27417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 27517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 27817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 301a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 302a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 303a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 304a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 305a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 306a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 30919c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 315b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 323bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 324bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 325bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 326bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 327bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 328bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 329226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 332226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 333226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 334226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 335226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 336a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 337226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 338226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 33969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 34069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 341b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 34269369a70SJosh Triplett help 34369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 34469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 34569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 34669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 34769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 34869369a70SJosh Triplett 3491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 351804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 355cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 356cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3587a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3597a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3607a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 362cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3637a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 36428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 36574c3cbe3SAl Viro 366d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 367764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 36887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 369d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 37802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 383c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 393c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 406ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 407554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 408041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 419abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 420abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 423b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 424b58c3584SRik van Riel 425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 427b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 429fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 430fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 431fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 432fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 433fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 434fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 435fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 43611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 43711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 43811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 43911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 44011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 44176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 44276504793SThara Gopinath bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" 44376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 44476504793SThara Gopinath 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4472813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4663903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 47219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4742813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 48619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 488f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 49819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 50719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 515eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 516eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 517eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 518eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 519eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 520eb414681SJohannes Weiner 521eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 522eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 523eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 524eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 525eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5262ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5272ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5282ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5292ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 530c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 531eb414681SJohannes Weiner 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner 534e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 535e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 536e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 537e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 538e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 539e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 540428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 541428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 542e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5447b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 558414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5592c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5605c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5615c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5632c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5642c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5662c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5675c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5680af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 569c903ff83SMike Travis 570de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 571de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 572de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 573de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 575f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 593f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 594f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 595f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 59643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 597f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 598f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 599f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 600f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 60143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 602794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 603794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 604fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 606361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 607794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 613f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 614f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 615f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 616f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 617f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 618794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 619794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 620794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6232240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 627361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6465e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6475e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 657f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 658f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 659427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 660427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 661f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 662427934b8SPetr Mladek help 663f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 664f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 665f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 666f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 667f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 668427934b8SPetr Mladek 669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 670427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 671427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 672427934b8SPetr Mladek 673427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 674427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 675427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 676427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 677427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 678427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 679427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 680427934b8SPetr Mladek 6815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 68738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 68838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 68938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 69069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 69169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 69269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 69369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 69469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 69569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 69669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 69769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 69869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 69969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 70069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 70169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 70269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 743be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 744be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 745be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 746be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 747be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 748be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 749be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 750be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 75172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 75272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 75372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 75472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 75572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 75672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 75772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 75872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 75972b252aeSMel Gorman 760c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 7613a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 762c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 76372b252aeSMel Gorman# 764be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 765be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 766be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 767be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 768be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7836d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7886f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 7926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 7946f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 79523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 7966341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 7972bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 798ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 79923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 803d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 804da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 80545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 806ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 807ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 808ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 80923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 81023964d2dSLi Zefan 8113e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8123e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8133e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 814c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 815a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8163e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 81779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 81800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 819a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 82000f0b825SBalbir Singh 821c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 822a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 823c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 824c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 825a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 826a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 827c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 828a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 829c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 830a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 831a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 832a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 833a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 83443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 83507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 836a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 837a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 838a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 83900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 840c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 84184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 84284c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 84384c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 84484c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 84584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8492bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 859e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8637baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 866da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 872e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8737c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 874a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8757c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8767c941438SDhaval Giani help 8777c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8787c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8797c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8807c941438SDhaval Giani 8817c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8827c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8837c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8847c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8857c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8867c941438SDhaval Giani 887ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 888ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 889ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 890ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 891ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 892ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 893ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 894ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 895ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 896d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 897ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8987c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8997c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9007c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9017c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9027c941438SDhaval Giani help 9037c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 90432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9057c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9067c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 907d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9087c941438SDhaval Giani 9097c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9107c941438SDhaval Giani 9112480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9122480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9132480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9142480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9152480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9162480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9172480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9182480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9192480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9202480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9212480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9222480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9232480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9426cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 94598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 94939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 95039d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 95139d3e758SParav Pandit help 95239d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 95339d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 95439d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 95539d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 95639d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 95739d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 95839d3e758SParav Pandit 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 965489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 966489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 967489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 968489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 969489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 974afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 985afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 988e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 994afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 996afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 100089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 100189e9b9e0STejun Heo 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10206546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10216546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 102630070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1027483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1028483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 102930070984SDaniel Mack help 103030070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 103130070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 103230070984SDaniel Mack 103330070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 103430070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 103530070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 103630070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 103730070984SDaniel Mack 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 103923b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 104123b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 104423b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 104523b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 104623b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105173b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 105273b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 105373b35147SArnd Bergmann 105423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1055c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10582813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10596a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1064c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1065c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 106858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 107017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 107258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 107358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 107458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1075769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1076769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1077660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1078769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1079769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1080769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1081769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1082769071acSAndrei Vagin 1083ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1084ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 108617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1087ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1088ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1089614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1090ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1091aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 109219c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10935673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1094aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1095aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1096aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1097e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1098e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1099d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1100d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1101d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1102e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1103aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1104aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 110574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11069bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 110717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 110874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 110912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1110692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 111174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 111274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1113d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1114d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 111617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1117d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1118d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1119d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1120d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11228dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11235cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11245cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11255cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11265cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11275cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11285cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11295cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11305cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11315cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11325cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11335cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11345cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11355091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11365091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11375091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11385091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11395091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11405091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11415091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11425091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11435091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11445091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11455091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11465091faa4SMike Galbraith 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11485d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11715d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 118726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1202f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12048c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1212c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1213c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1214dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1215dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1216c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1217c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 121876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 121976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12202910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 122176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 122276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 122376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12240947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 122585c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12260947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 122776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 122876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 122976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1230877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1231877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12322cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1233877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1234877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 123515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1236877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1237877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1238877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1239877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1240877417e6SArnd Bergmann 124115f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 124215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 124315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1244c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 124515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 124615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1247c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12485d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 124915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1250c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1251ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1252ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1253c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1254877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1255877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12565d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12665d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 127016fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1271e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1272e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12748b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12758b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12768b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12850847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12860847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12870847062aSRandy Dunlap 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger 1291657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1293657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1294657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger 1296657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger 1303657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger 1311657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger 1314f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1315f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1316f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1317f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13186a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1320f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1321f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1328ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13302813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1331ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1332ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1333ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1334ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13352813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13362813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13372813893fSIulia Manda default y 13382813893fSIulia Manda help 13392813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13402813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13412813893fSIulia Manda 13422813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13432813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13442813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13452813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13462813893fSIulia Manda 13472813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13482813893fSIulia Manda 1349f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1350f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1351a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1352f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1353f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1354f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1355f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1356f6187769SFabian Frederick 1357f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1358f6187769SFabian Frederick 13596af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1389baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1390baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1391baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1392baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1393baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1396baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1397baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1398baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1399d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1400d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 140274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1403d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1404d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1405d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1406d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1407d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1408d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1409d59745ceSMatt Mackall 141042a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 141142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 141242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 141342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 141442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1415c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1417c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1418c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1419c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1420c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1421c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1422c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1423c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1424c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1425708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1426046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1427708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1429708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1430708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1431708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14328761f1abSRalf Baechle 1433e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14358761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 143615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1437e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1438e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1439e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1440e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1441e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1453bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1459bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1460bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1461bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1462bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1463bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 146403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 146503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 146662b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 146703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 146803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 146903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 147003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 147103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1479fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1481fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1482fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1483fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1484fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1485fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1486fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1487fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1488b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1490b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1491b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1492b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1493b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1494b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1495b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1496b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1497e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1499e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1500e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1501e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1502e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1503e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1504e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1505e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1517ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1519ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1520ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1521ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1522ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1523ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1524ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15252b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15262b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1527561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15282b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15292b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15302b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15312b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15322b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15332b188cc1SJens Axboe 1534d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1535d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1536d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1537d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1538d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1539d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1540d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1541d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1542d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1543d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15445a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 15455a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 15465a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 15475a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 15485a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 15495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1594a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1612fc611f47SKP Singh 1613fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1614fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16154edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1616fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1617fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1618fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1619fc611f47SKP Singh help 1620fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1621fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1622fc611f47SKP Singh 1623fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1624fc611f47SKP Singh 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1628bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 163481c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 163581c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 163681c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1637290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1638290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1639290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1640290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1641290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1642290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1643290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 164481c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 164581c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 164681c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 164781c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 165870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 165970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 166070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1661d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1662d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16846befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16865d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1693cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16940793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1695018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1696018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1698906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1699906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1701906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1702906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1703ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1704424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1705ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1706ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1707ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1708ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1709ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 171057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1712cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1714392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1715cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1716e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 171783fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17180793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 171957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 172057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17210793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1722dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 172357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 172457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 172557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 172657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17270793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17290793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17310793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 173357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1734dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 173557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17360793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17370793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1741906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1742906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1743906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1744cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1746906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1751906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17540793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1756f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1757f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1759f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17612aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17626a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17632aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1764f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 176541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 176641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1768f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 176941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 177041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 177441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17751663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17761663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17771663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17781663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17791663f26dSTejun Heo help 17801663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17811663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17821663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17831663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17841663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17851663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17861663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17871663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17881663f26dSTejun Heo 1789b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1790b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1791b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1792b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1793b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1794b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1795b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1796692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1798b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1800b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1803a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 180904385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 181302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 181681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1817ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181981819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182281819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 182302f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 182402f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 182581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18276a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 182981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183037291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183137291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183237291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18367660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18377660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18387660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18397660a6fdSKees Cook help 18407660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18417660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18427660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18437660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18447660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18457660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18467660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18477660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18487660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18497660a6fdSKees Cook 1850c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1851c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1852210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1853c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1854c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1855210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1856c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1857c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1858c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18592482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18602482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18612482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18622482ddecSKees Cook help 18632482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18642482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 186592bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18662482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18672482ddecSKees Cook 1868e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1869e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1870e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1871e900a918SDan Williams help 1872e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1873e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1874e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1875e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1876e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1877e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1878e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1879e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1880e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1881e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1882e900a918SDan Williams 1883e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1884e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1885e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1886e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1887e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1888e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1889e900a918SDan Williams 1890e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1891e900a918SDan Williams 1892345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1893345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1894b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1895345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1896345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 189792bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1899345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1901345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1902345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1903ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1904ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19056a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1906ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1907ea637639SJie Zhang help 1908ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19093903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1910ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1911ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1912ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1913ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1914ea637639SJie Zhang 1915ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1916ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1917ea637639SJie Zhang 1918ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1919ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1920ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1921ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1922ea637639SJie Zhang 1923ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1924ea637639SJie Zhang 1925091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1926091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1930d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1939091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194282c04ff8SPeter Foley 1943125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1944b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1945125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1946125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1948125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19495f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19505f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19515f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19545f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19581572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19591572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1960ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19616341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1962ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1968c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1969c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1970c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1971c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 197411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19930b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19940b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1995826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1996826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1997826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1998826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 199991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 200091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2002826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2008f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2009f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 201319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20220d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20322ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20332ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20342ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20372ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 203956067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 204056067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204156067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204256067812SArd Biesheuvel 20431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2054106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2055106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2056c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2058106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2060cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2062228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2063228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2064228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2065228c37ffSDavid Howells 206649fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 206749fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 206849fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 206949fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 207049fcf732SDavid Howells 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2076106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2077106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2080106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2081106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2082ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2083d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2084d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2089d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2092d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2093d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212722753674SMichal Marek string 212822753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 212922753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 213022753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 213122753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213222753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 213322753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 213422753674SMichal Marek 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2139b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2140b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2141beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2142b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2144b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2145b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2146beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2148b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2149beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2150b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2151b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2152b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2154beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2171beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21723d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21733d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21783d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21833d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21843d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2185efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2186efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2187efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2188efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2189efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2190efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2191efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2200efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2201dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2202dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2203d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2204dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2205dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2206dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2207dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2210dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2215f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2216dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22171518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22181518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22191518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22201518c633SQuentin Perret help 22211518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22221518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22231518c633SQuentin Perret 22241518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22251518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22261518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22271518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22281518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22291518c633SQuentin Perret 22300b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22310b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22326c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22336c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22346c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22356c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 223698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 223798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 223898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22395f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22405f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 224198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 224298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2243692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 224498a79d6aSRusty Russell 22453a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2246e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2247e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2248e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2249e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 225016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 225116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 225216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 225316295becSSteffen Klassert 22544520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22554520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22564520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22574520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22584520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22594520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22604520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22614520c6a4SDavid Howells 22626beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2263e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2264e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2265e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22661bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22671bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22687303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22697303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22707303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22717303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22727303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22737303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22741bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22751bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2276