1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 129f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 132*e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 133*e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 134*e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 135*e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 136*e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 13747cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 13847cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 13947cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 140613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 141613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 142613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 143613fe169SNathan Chancellor 144b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 145b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 146b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 147e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 148fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 149e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15010916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1511dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1521dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 153c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 154c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 155c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 156c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 157c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 158c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 159c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 160c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 161c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 162c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 163ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 175dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 176dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 17934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1814bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1824bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 183ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1844bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1854bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1864bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1874bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1884bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1894bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby 1953fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1963fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 197b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1983fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1993fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 201e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 202e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 203e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 205e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 206e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2073fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2083fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2093fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2103fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2113fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 212d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 213d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 214fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 215d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 216d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 217d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 218d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 219d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 220d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 232aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 233aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 234aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 235ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 236aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 237aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2386e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 240aaebf433SRyan Anderson 241aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2426e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 243aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 245aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2460f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 252aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2539afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2549afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2559afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2569afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2579afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2589afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2599afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2609afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2619afb719eSLaura Abbott 2622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2713ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2723ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2733ebe1243SLasse Collin 2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28148f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 28248f7ddf7SNick Terrell 283f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 284f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 285f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 28948f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 31830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3200a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 32830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3290a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3300a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3310a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 33230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3333ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3343ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3353ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3363ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3373ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3383ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3393ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3403ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3417472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3427472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3437472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3473ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3483ebe1243SLasse Collin 3497dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 354681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 357e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 358e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 359e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 360e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 361e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 362e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 364e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 36948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 37148f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 37248f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 37348f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 37448f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 37548f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 37648f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 37748f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 379f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 380f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 381f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 382f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 383f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 384f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 385f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 386f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 387f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 388f16466afSVasily Gorbik 38930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 391ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 392ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 393ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 394ada4ab7aSChris Down help 395ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 396ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 397ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 398ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 399ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 400ada4ab7aSChris Down 401bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 402bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 403bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 404bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 405bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 406bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 407bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 408bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 409bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 412a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 425a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 426a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 427a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 428a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 429a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 430a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4310cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4320cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4330cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4340cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 43719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 438a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 443b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 452bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 453bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 454bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 455bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 456bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 457c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 458c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 459c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 460c73be61cSDavid Howells help 461c73be61cSDavid Howells 462c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 463c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 464c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 465c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 466c73be61cSDavid Howells 467c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 468c73be61cSDavid Howells 469226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 470226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 471226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 472226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 473226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 474226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 475226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 476a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 477226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 47969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4807374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4817374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 48269369a70SJosh Triplett help 48369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 48469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 48569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 48669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 48769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 48869369a70SJosh Triplett 4891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 491804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 495cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 496cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4987a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4997a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5007a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 502cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5037a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 50428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50574c3cbe3SAl Viro 506d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 507764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 508b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 50987a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 510d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51802382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 523c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 531abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 533c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 534abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 544abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 545abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54624a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 547554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 548041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 549abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 55024a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 559abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 561abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 562abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 563b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 564b58c3584SRik van Riel 565fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 567b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 568fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 571fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 572fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 573fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 574fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 575fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 57911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 58011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 581d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 58298eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 583fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 584fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58576504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58698eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58798eb401dSValentin Schneider help 588d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 589d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 59098eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 591d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 592d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 59398eb401dSValentin Schneider 59498eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59598eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59698eb401dSValentin Schneider 59798eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 598d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 59976504793SThara Gopinath 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6022813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6213903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62719c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6292813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 64119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 643f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 65319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 66219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 670eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 67298dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 673eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner 677eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 678eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 679eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 680eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 681eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6822ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6832ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6842ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6852ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 686c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner 688eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 689eb414681SJohannes Weiner 690e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 691e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 692e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 694e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 695e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 696428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 697428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 698e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7077b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7087b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7097b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 710391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 711391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7125c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7135c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 714414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 7152c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7165c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7175c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7192c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7212c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7222c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7235c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7240af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 725c903ff83SMike Travis 7261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 727f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 728a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 741a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 745f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 746f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 749f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 750f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 751f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 752f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 75343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 754794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 755794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7561c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 757f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 758361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 759794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 765f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 767f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 768f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 769f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 770794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 771794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 772794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7752240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 778320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 779361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7920f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7985e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7995e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80933701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 81033701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 81133701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 81233701557SChris Down help 81333701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 81433701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81533701557SChris Down 81633701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81733701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81833701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81933701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 82033701557SChris Down 82133701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 82233701557SChris Down 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 83038ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 83138ff87f7SStephen Boyd 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 890be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 891be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 89372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 89472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 89572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 89672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 90072b252aeSMel Gorman bool 90172b252aeSMel Gorman 902c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9033a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 904c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 905dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 906dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 907158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 908dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 909dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9103e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9110da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9123e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9135a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9145a41237aSLinus Torvalds 915f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 916f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9178e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 918f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 91902153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 92002153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 921a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 922a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 923a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 924a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 92502153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 926a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 927a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 928a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 929a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 930a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 93172b252aeSMel Gorman# 932be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 933be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 934be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 935be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 936be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 942be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 947554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9516d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 953be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9586f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9596f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9606f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9616f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9626f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 96321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 96421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 96521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 96623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9676341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9682bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 969ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 97023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 974d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 975da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 97645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 977ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 978ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 979ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 98023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 98123964d2dSLi Zefan 9823e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9833e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9843e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9856a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9866a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9876a010a49STejun Heo help 9886a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9896a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9906a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9916a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9926a010a49STejun Heo 9936a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9946a010a49STejun Heo 995c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 996a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9973e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99879bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 100000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1001a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 100200f0b825SBalbir Singh 1003e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1004e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1005c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1006e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1007e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1008e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1009e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1010e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1011e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1014e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1016e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1017e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1018fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 101984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10232bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1024a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10282bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1033e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10377baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1040da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1046e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10477c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1048a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10497c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10507c941438SDhaval Giani help 10517c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10527c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10537c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10547c941438SDhaval Giani 10557c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1056e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1057e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1058e179e80cSTejun Heo 10597c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10607c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10617c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1062e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10637c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10647c941438SDhaval Giani 1065ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1066ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1067ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1068ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1069ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1070ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1071ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1072ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1073ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1074d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1075ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10767c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10777c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10787c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10797c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10807c941438SDhaval Giani help 10817c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 108232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10837c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10847c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1085d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10867c941438SDhaval Giani 108781951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 108881951366STejun Heo bool 108981951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 109081951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 109181951366STejun Heo default y 109281951366STejun Heo 10937c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10947c941438SDhaval Giani 1095af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1096af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1097af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1098af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10992480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11002480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11012480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11022480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11032480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11042480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11052480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11062480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11072480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11162480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11172480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11182480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11192480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11202480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11306cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 113398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 113839d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 113939d3e758SParav Pandit help 114039d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 114139d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 114239d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 114339d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 114439d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 114539d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 114639d3e758SParav Pandit 1147b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1148b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1149e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1150b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1151b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1152b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1153b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1154b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1155b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1156b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1163489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1164489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1165489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1166489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1167489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1172afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1183afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1186e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1187bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1193afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1195afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11961abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11971abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11981abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 11991abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12001abab1baSChen Ridong help 12011abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12021abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 12031abab1baSChen Ridong which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 12041abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12051abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12061abab1baSChen Ridong 12071abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12081abab1baSChen Ridong 12096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 121289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 121389e9b9e0STejun Heo 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12326546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12336546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 123730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 123830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1239483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1240483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124130070984SDaniel Mack help 124230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 124330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 124430070984SDaniel Mack 124530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 124630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 124730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 124830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 124930070984SDaniel Mack 1250a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1251a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1252a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1253a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1254a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1255a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1256a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1257a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1258a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1259a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1260a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1261a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1262a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1263a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 126523b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 126723b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 127023b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 127123b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 127223b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 127673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 127773b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 127873b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 127973b35147SArnd Bergmann 128023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1281c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12842813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12856a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1286c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1287c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1288c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1289c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1290c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1291c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 129458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 129558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 129617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 129758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 129858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 129958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 130058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1301769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1302769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1303660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1304769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1305769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1306769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1307769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1308769071acSAndrei Vagin 1309ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1310ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 131217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1313ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1314ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1315614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1316ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1317aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 131819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13195673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1320aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1321aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1322aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1323e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1324e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1325d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1326d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1327d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1328e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1329aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1330aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 133174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13329bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 133317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 133474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 133512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1336692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 133774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 133874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1339d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1340d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 134217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1343d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1344d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1345d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1346d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13495cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13505cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 135130341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13525cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1353bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13545cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13555cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13565cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13575cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13585cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13595cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13605cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13615cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13625cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13635091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13645091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13655091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13665091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13675091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13685091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13695091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13705091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13715091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13725091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13735091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13745091faa4SMike Galbraith 13757af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13767af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 137726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13787af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13807af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13817af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13827af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13837af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13857af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1387f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1388f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1389f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1390f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1391f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1392f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1393f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13948c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1395f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1396f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1397f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1398f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1399f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1400f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1401f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1402c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1403c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1404dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1405dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1406c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1407c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 140876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 140976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1410a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 141176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 141276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 141376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14140947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 141585c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14160947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 141776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 141876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 141976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1420b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1421b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1422b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14236ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1424b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1425b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1426b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1427b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1428b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1429b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1430b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1431b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1432b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1433a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1434a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1435a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1436a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1437a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1438a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1439a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1440a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1441a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1442a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1443a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1444a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1445a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1447a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1448a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1449a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1450a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1451a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14521274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14531274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14541274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14551274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14561274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14571274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14581274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14591274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14601274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14611274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1462877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1463877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14642cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1465877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1466877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 146715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1468877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1469877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1470877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1471877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1472877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1473c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 147415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1475c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1476ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1477ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1478c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1479877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1480877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14815d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14915d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1495e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1496e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14988b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14998b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15008b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 150959612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151059612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 151159612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151259612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1513e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1514e1789d7cSXin Li 1515e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1516e1789d7cSXin Li string 1517e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1518e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1519e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 152059612b24SNathan Chancellor 15210847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15220847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15230847062aSRandy Dunlap 1524657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1525657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1526657a5209SMike Frysinger 1527657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1528657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1529657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1530657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1531657a5209SMike Frysinger 1532657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1533657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1534657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1535657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1536657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1537657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1538657a5209SMike Frysinger 1539657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1540657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1541657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1542657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1543657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1544657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1545657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1546657a5209SMike Frysinger 1547657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1548657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1549657a5209SMike Frysinger 15506a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1552f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1553f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1560ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15622813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1563ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1564ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1565ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1566ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15672813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15682813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15692813893fSIulia Manda default y 15702813893fSIulia Manda help 15712813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15722813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15732813893fSIulia Manda 15742813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15752813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15762813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15772813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15782813893fSIulia Manda 15792813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15802813893fSIulia Manda 1581f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1582f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1583cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1584a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1585f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1586f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1587f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1588f6187769SFabian Frederick 1589f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1590f6187769SFabian Frederick 15916af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15936af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1594a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15966af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15976af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 16006af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1614baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1615baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1616baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1617baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1618baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1619baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1620baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1621baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1622baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1623baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1624baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1625baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1626baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1627baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1628baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1629baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1630baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1631d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1632d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 163474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1635d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1636d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1637d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1638d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1639d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1640d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1641d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1642c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1644c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1645c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1646c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1647c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1648c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1649c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1650c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1651c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1652708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1653046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1654708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1656708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1657708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1658708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16598761f1abSRalf Baechle 1660e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16628761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 166315f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1664e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1665e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1666e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1667e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1668e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 166927021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 167027021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 167227021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16783f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1680bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1686bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1687bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1688bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1689bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1690bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1698fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1700fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1701fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1702fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1703fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1704fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1705fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1706fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1707b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1709b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1710b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1711b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1712b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1713b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1714b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1715b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1716e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1718e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1719e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1720e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1721e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1722e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1723e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1724e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1736ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1738ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1739ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1740ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1741ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1742ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1743ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17442b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17452b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1746561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17472b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17482b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17492b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17502b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17512b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17522b188cc1SJens Axboe 17531802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17541802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17551802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17561802656eSJens Axboe help 17571802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17581802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17591802656eSJens Axboe 17601802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17611802656eSJens Axboe 17621802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17631802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17641802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17651802656eSJens Axboe 1766d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1767d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1768d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1769d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1770d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1771d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1772d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1773d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1774d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1775d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1788a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1789a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1790a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1791a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1792a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1793a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1794a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1795a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1796a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1823a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1824a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1825a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1826a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1827a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1828a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1829a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1838d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1839d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1840d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1841d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1842d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1843d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1844d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1845d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 184630f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 184730f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 184830f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 184930f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 185030f3bb09SZhen Lei help 185130f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 185230f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 185330f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 185430f3bb09SZhen Lei 185530f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 185630f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 185730f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 185830f3bb09SZhen Lei 1859d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1860d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1861d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1862d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1863d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1864d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1865bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1866bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1867bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1868bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1869d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1870d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1871d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1872d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1873d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1874d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1875bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1876d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1877d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1878d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1879d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1880d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1881d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1882d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1883d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18843ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18853ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18863ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 188770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 188870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 188970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1890cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18910793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1892018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1893018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18940793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18952aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18962aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18972aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18982aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1899906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1900906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1901906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1902906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1903906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 190457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1906cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 190757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1908392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1909cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1910e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19110793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 191257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 191357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19140793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1915dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 191657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 191757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 191857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 191957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19200793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19210793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19220793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19230793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19240793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 192657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1927dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 192857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19290793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19300793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19320793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19330793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1934906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1935906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1936906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1937cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1938906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1939906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1940906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1941906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1942906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1943906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1944906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1945906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1946906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19470793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19480793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1949091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1950091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1951091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1952091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1953091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1954d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1955091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1956091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1957091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1958091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1959091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1960091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 196182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1962091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1963091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1964091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1965091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 196682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1967125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1968b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1969125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1970125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1971f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1972125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19732f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19762f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1977ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 1978ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 1979f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 19802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1981c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 19828b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 1983ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 1984af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 1985f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 198693e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 19872f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19882f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19892f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19912f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19942f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19962f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19972f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19982f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19992f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20002f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20012f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20035134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20045134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20055134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20072f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20109e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2011c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2012c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2013c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2014c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2015aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20175f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20185f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20195f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20205f87f112SIngo Molnar# 202197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20225f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2023a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 202497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 202589cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 202689cde455SEric DeVolder 20271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20291572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20301572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2031ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20326341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20331c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2034ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2035c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2036c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2037c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2038c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 203973b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20406c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 204198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 204298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 204398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20445f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20455f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 204698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 204798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2048692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 204998a79d6aSRusty Russell 20503a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2051e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2052e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2053e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2054e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 205516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 205616295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 205716295becSSteffen Klassert bool 205816295becSSteffen Klassert 20594520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20604520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20614520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20624520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20634520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20644520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20654520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20664520c6a4SDavid Howells 20676beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2068e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20690ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20700ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20710ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20724ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20734ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 20744ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2075e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2076e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20771bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20781bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20797303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20807303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20817303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20827303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20837303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20847303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20861bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2087