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 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 99587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 102f2f6a8e8SMark 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) 103587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1041aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1051aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1061aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 107534bd703SAlexandre 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) 1081aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1095cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1102d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1115cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 112eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 113eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 114eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 115*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstensconfig CC_HAS_ASSUME 116*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens bool 117*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # clang needs to be at least 19.1.0 since the meaning of the assume 118*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # attribute changed: 119*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c44fa3e8a9a44c2e9a575768a3c185354b9f6c17 120*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190100 121*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # supported since gcc 13.1.0 122*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106654 123*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 130100 124*f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens 12551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1295106c650SJan Hendrik Farr bool 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 132f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 1335106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190103 1345106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # supported since gcc 15.1.0 1355106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896 1365106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 150100 137f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 138b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 139b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 140b688f369SKees Cook 141e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 142e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 143e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 144e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 145e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 14647cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 14747cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 14847cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 14936174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 15036174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 15136174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1527129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1537129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1547129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 1550aa2b78cSBoqun Fengconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_WITH_NUL 1560aa2b78cSBoqun Feng def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108900 1570aa2b78cSBoqun Feng 158613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 159613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 160613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 161613fe169SNathan Chancellor 162b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 163b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 164b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 165e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 166fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 167e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 16810916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1691dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1701dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 171c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 172c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 173c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 174c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 175c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 176c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 177c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 178c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 179c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 180c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 181ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 185fefbeed8SAndrew Morton help 186fefbeed8SAndrew Morton This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to 187fefbeed8SAndrew Morton compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to 188fefbeed8SAndrew Morton new infrastructure. 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 197dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 198dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 20134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2034bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 2044bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 205ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 2064bb16672SJiri Slaby help 2074bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 2084bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 2094bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 2104bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 2114bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 2124bb16672SJiri Slaby 2134bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 2144bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 2154bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2164bb16672SJiri Slaby 2173fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2183fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 219b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2203fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2213fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 223e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 224e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 225e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2263fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 227e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 228e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2293fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2303fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2313fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2323fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2333fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 234d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 235d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 236fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 237d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 238d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 239d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 240d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 241d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 242d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 243d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 254aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 255aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 256aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 257ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 258aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 259aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 262aaebf433SRyan Anderson 263aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 265aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 267aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2680f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2706e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 274aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2759afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2769afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2779afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2789afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2799afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2809afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2819afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2829afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2839afb719eSLaura Abbott 2842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2933ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2943ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2953ebe1243SLasse Collin 2967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 299e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 300e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 301e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 30248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 30348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 30448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 305f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 306f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 307f16466afSVasily Gorbik 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 31148f7ddf7SNick 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 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 31830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 32230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 32930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 33630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 33830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 34030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 34130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3420a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 34630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 34730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 34830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 35030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3510a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 35430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3553ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3563ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3573ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3583ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3593ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3603ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3613ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3623ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3637472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3647472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3657472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3663ebe1243SLasse Collin 3673ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3683ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3693ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3703ebe1243SLasse Collin 3717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 376681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 379e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 380e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 381e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 382e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 383e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 384e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 385e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 386e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 387e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 388e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 389e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 390e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 39148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 39248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 39348f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 39448f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 39548f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 39648f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 39748f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 39848f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 39948f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 40048f7ddf7SNick Terrell 401f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 402f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 403f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 404f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 405f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 406f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 407f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 408f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 409f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 410f16466afSVasily Gorbik 41130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 41230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 413ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 414ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 415ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 416ada4ab7aSChris Down help 417ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 418ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 419ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 420ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 421ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 422ada4ab7aSChris Down 423bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 424bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 425bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 426bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 427bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 428bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 429bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 430bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 431bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 434a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 447a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 448a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 449a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 450a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 451a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 452a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4530cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4540cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4550cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4560cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 45919c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 460a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 465b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 473bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 474bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 475bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 476bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 477bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 478bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 479c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 480c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 481c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 482c73be61cSDavid Howells help 483c73be61cSDavid Howells 484c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 485c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 486c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 487c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 488c73be61cSDavid Howells 489c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 490c73be61cSDavid Howells 491226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 492226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 493226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 494226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 495226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 496226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 497226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 498a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 499226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 500226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 5011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 503804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 507cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 508cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5107a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5117a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5127a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 514cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5157a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 51628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 51774c3cbe3SAl Viro 518d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 519764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 520b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 52187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 522d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 525abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 526abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 527abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 53002382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 535c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 537fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 538fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 540fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 541fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 542fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 543abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 545c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 546abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 55824a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 559554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 560041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 561abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 56224a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 563abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 564abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 565abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 566abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 567abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 568abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 569abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 570abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 571abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 572abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 573abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 574abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 575b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 576b58c3584SRik van Riel 577fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 578fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 579b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 580fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 581fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 582fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 583fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 584fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 585fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 586fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 587fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 58811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 58911d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 59011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 59111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 59211d4afd4SVincent Guittot 593d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 59498eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 595fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 596fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 59776504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 59898eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 59998eb401dSValentin Schneider help 600d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 601d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 60298eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 603d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 604d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 60598eb401dSValentin Schneider 60698eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 60798eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 60898eb401dSValentin Schneider 60998eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 610d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 61176504793SThara Gopinath 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6142813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6333903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 63919c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6412813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 65319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 655f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 66519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 671391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 672391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 67419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 675391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 676391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 677391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 678391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 679391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 680391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 681391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 682eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 683eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 68498dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 685eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 686eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 688eb414681SJohannes Weiner 689eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 690eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 691eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 692eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 693eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6942ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6952ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6962ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6972ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 698c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 699eb414681SJohannes Weiner 700eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 701eb414681SJohannes Weiner 702e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 703e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 704e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 705e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 706e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 707e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 708428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 709428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 710e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7117b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7127b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7137b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7147b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7157b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7167b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7177b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7187b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7197b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7207b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7217b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 722391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 723391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7245c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7255c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 72697577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7272c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7285c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7295c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7305c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7312c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7322c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7332c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7342c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7355c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7360af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 737c903ff83SMike Travis 7381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 739f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 740a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 753a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 757f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 758f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 759f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 76043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 761f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 762f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 763f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 764f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 76543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 766794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 767794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7681c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 769f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 770361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 771794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 777f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 778f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 779f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 780f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 781f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 782794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 783794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 784794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7872240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 790320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 791361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 8040f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8105e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8115e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 81223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 81423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 81523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 82133701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 82233701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 82333701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 82433701557SChris Down help 82533701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 82633701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 82733701557SChris Down 82833701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 82933701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 83033701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 83133701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 83233701557SChris Down 83333701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 83433701557SChris Down 8355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 84138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 84238ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 84338ff87f7SStephen Boyd 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 88769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 88869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 88969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 89069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 89169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 89269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 89469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89525c411fcSJohn Stultzconfig SCHED_PROXY_EXEC 89625c411fcSJohn Stultz bool "Proxy Execution" 89725c411fcSJohn Stultz # Avoid some build failures w/ PREEMPT_RT until it can be fixed 89825c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !PREEMPT_RT 89925c411fcSJohn Stultz # Need to investigate how to inform sched_ext of split contexts 90025c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT 90125c411fcSJohn Stultz # Not particularly useful until we get to multi-rq proxying 90225c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on EXPERT 90325c411fcSJohn Stultz help 90425c411fcSJohn Stultz This option enables proxy execution, a mechanism for mutex-owning 90525c411fcSJohn Stultz tasks to inherit the scheduling context of higher priority waiters. 90625c411fcSJohn Stultz 90769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 90869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 91772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 91872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 91972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 92072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 92172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 92272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 92372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 92472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 92572b252aeSMel Gorman 926c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9273a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 928c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 929dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 930dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 931158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 932dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 933dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9343e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9350da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9363e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9375a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9385a41237aSLinus Torvalds 939f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 940f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9418e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 942f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 94302153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 94402153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 945a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 946a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 947a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 948a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 94902153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 950a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 951a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 952a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 953a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 954a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 95572b252aeSMel Gorman# 956be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 957be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 958be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 959be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 960be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 961be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 962be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 963be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 964be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 965be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 966be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 967be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 968be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 969be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 970be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 971554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 972be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 973be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 974be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9756d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 976be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 977be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 978be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9866f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 98721c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 98821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 98921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 99023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9916341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9922bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 993ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 99423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 998d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 999da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 100045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 1001ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 1002ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 1003ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 100423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 100523964d2dSLi Zefan 10063e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 10073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 10083e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 10096a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 10106a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 10116a010a49STejun Heo help 10126a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 10136a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 10146a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 10156a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 10166a010a49STejun Heo 10176a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10186a010a49STejun Heo 1019c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1020a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10213e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 102279bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 102321c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 1024fdc5001bSKirill A. Shutemov select VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 102500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1026a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 102700f0b825SBalbir Singh 102825352d2fSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE 102925352d2fSShakeel Butt bool 103025352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 103125352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 103225352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 103325352d2fSShakeel Butt default y 103425352d2fSShakeel Butt 1035940b01fcSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC 1036940b01fcSShakeel Butt bool 1037940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 1038940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 1039940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1040940b01fcSShakeel Butt default y 1041940b01fcSShakeel Butt 1042e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1043e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1044c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1045e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1046e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1047e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1048e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1049e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1050e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1051e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1052e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1053e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1054e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1055e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1056e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1057fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 105884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1063a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1072e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10767baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1079da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1085e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10867c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1087a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10887c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10897c941438SDhaval Giani help 10907c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10917c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10927c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10937c941438SDhaval Giani 10947c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1095e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1096e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1097e179e80cSTejun Heo 1098ddceadceSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1099ddceadceSTejun Heo def_bool n 1100ddceadceSTejun Heo 11017c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11027c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 11037c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1104e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 11057c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 11067c941438SDhaval Giani 1107ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1108ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1109ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1110ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1111ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1112ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1113ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1114ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1115ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1116ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1117d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1118ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11197c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11207c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11217c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11227c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11237c941438SDhaval Giani help 11247c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 112532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11267c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11277c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1128d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 11297c941438SDhaval Giani 1130e34e0131SMichal Koutnýconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED 1131e34e0131SMichal Koutný bool "Require boot parameter to enable group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1132e34e0131SMichal Koutný depends on RT_GROUP_SCHED 1133e34e0131SMichal Koutný default n 1134e34e0131SMichal Koutný help 1135e34e0131SMichal Koutný When set, the RT group scheduling is disabled by default. The option 1136e34e0131SMichal Koutný is in inverted form so that mere RT_GROUP_SCHED enables the group 1137e34e0131SMichal Koutný scheduling. 1138e34e0131SMichal Koutný 1139e34e0131SMichal Koutný Say N if unsure. 1140e34e0131SMichal Koutný 114181951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 114281951366STejun Heo bool 114381951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 114481951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1145ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 114681951366STejun Heo default y 114781951366STejun Heo 11487c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11497c941438SDhaval Giani 1150af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1151af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1152af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1153af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11542480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11552480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11562480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11572480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11582480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11592480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11602480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11612480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11622480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11632480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11642480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11652480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11662480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11672480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11682480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11692480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11702480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11712480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11722480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11732480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11742480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11752480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11856cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 118898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 119239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 119339d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 119439d3e758SParav Pandit help 119539d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 119639d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 119739d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 119839d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 119939d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 120039d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 120139d3e758SParav Pandit 1202b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1203b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1204e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1205b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1206b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1207b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1208b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1209b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1210b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1211b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 12136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1218489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1219489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1220489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1221489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1222489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1227afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1238afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1241e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1242bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1248afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1250afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12511abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12521abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12531abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12541abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12551abab1baSChen Ridong help 12561abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12571abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1258dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1259dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12601abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12611abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12621abab1baSChen Ridong 12631abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12641abab1baSChen Ridong 12656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1267dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 126889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 126989e9b9e0STejun Heo 12706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12766bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12886546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12896546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 129330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 129430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1295483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1296483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 129730070984SDaniel Mack help 129830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 129930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 130030070984SDaniel Mack 130130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 130230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 130330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 130430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 130530070984SDaniel Mack 1306a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1307a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1308a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1309a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1310a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1311a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1312a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1313a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1314a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1315a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1316a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1317a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1318a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1319a72232eaSVipin Sharma 13206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 132123b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 13226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 132323b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 13246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 13256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 132623b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 132723b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 132823b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 13296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 13306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 13316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 133273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 133373b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 133473b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 133573b35147SArnd Bergmann 133623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1337c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 13388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 13396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 13402813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 13416a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1342c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1343c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1344c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1345c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1346c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1347c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 135058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 135158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 135217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 135358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 135458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 135558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 135658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1357769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1358769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1359660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1360769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1361769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1362769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1363769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1364769071acSAndrei Vagin 1365ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1366ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 136817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1369ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1370ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1371614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1372ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1373aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 137419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13755673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1376aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1377aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1378aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1379e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1380e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1381d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1382d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1383d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1384e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1385aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1386aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 138774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13889bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 138917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 139074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 139112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1392692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 139374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 139474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1395d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1396d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 139817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1399d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1400d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1401d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1402d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 14038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 14048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 14055cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 14065cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 140730341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 14085cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1409bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 14105cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 14115cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 14125cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 14135cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 14145cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 14155cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 14165cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14175cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 14185cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14195091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 14205091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 14215091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 14225091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 14235091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 14245091faa4SMike Galbraith help 14255091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 14265091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 14275091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 14285091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 14295091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 14305091faa4SMike Galbraith 14317af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 14327af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 143326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14347af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 14357af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 14367af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 14377af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 14387af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 14397af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 14407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 14417af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 14427af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1443f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1444f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1445f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1446f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1447f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1448f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1449f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14508c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1451f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1452f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1453f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1454f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1455f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1456f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1457f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1458c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1459c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1460dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1461dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1462c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1463c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 146476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 146576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1466a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 146776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 146876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 146976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14700947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 147185c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14720947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 147376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 147476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 147576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1476b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1477b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1478b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14796ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1480b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1481b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1482b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1483b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1484b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1485b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1486b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1487b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1488b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1489a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1490a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1491a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1492a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1493a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1494a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1495a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1496a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1497a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1498a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1499a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1500a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1501a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1502a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1503a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1504a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1505a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1506a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1507a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 15081274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 15091274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 15101274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 15111274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 15121274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 15131274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 15141274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 15151274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 15161274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 15171274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 151883c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 151983c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 152083c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 152183c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 152283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 152383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 152483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1525877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1526877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 15272cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1528877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1529877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 153015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1531877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1532877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1533877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1534877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1535877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1536c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 153715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1538c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1539ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1540ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1541c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1542877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1543877417e6SArnd Bergmann 15445d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15545d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1558e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1559e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15618b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15628b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15638b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 157259612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 157359612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 157459612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 157559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1576e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1577e1789d7cSXin Li 1578e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1579e1789d7cSXin Li string 1580e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1581e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1582e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 158359612b24SNathan Chancellor 15840847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15850847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15860847062aSRandy Dunlap 1587657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1588657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1589657a5209SMike Frysinger 1590657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1591657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1592657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1593657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1594657a5209SMike Frysinger 1595657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1596657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1597657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1598657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1599657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1600657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1601657a5209SMike Frysinger 1602657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1603657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1604657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1605657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1606657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1607657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1608657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1609657a5209SMike Frysinger 1610c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1611c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1612c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1613c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1614c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1615c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1616c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1617c443279aSChristian Brauner 1618c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1619c443279aSChristian Brauner 1620657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1621657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1622657a5209SMike Frysinger 16236a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 16246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1625f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1626f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1633ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 16346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 16352813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1636ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1637ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1638ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1639ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16402813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 16412813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 16422813893fSIulia Manda default y 16432813893fSIulia Manda help 16442813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 16452813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16462813893fSIulia Manda 16472813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16482813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16492813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16502813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16512813893fSIulia Manda 16522813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16532813893fSIulia Manda 1654f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1655f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1656cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1657a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1658f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1659f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1660f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1661f6187769SFabian Frederick 1662f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1663f6187769SFabian Frederick 1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1677baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1678baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1679baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1680baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1681baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1682baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1683baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1684baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1685baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1686baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1687baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1688baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1689baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1690baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1691baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1692baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1693baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1694d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1695d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 169774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1698d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1699d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1700d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1701d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1702d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1703d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1704d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1705c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 17066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1707c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1708c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1709c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1710c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1711c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1712c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1713c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1714c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1715708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1716046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1717708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 17186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1719708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1720708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1721708e9a79SMatt Mackall 17228761f1abSRalf Baechle 1723e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 17246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 17258761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 172615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1727e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1728e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1729e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1730e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1731e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 173227021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 173327021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 173527021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 17406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 17413f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1743bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1749bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1750bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1751bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1752bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1753bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 175480367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 175580367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior bool 175680367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on FUTEX && !BASE_SMALL && MMU 175780367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y 175880367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 1759c042c505SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUTEX_MPOL 1760c042c505SPeter Zijlstra bool 1761c042c505SPeter Zijlstra depends on FUTEX && NUMA 1762c042c505SPeter Zijlstra default y 1763c042c505SPeter Zijlstra 17641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1771fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1773fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1774fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1775fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1776fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1777fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1778fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1779fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1780b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1782b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1783b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1784b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1785b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1786b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1787b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1788b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1789e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1791e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1792e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1793e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1794e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1795e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1796e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1797e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1809ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 18106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1811ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1812ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1813ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1814ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1815ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1816ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 18172b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 18182b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1819561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 18202b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 18212b188cc1SJens Axboe help 18222b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 18232b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 18242b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 18252b188cc1SJens Axboe 18261802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 18271802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 1828d1fbe1ebSRandy Dunlap depends on IO_URING && GCOV_KERNEL 18291802656eSJens Axboe help 18301802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 18311802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 18321802656eSJens Axboe 18331802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 18341802656eSJens Axboe 18351802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 18361802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 18371802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 18381802656eSJens Axboe 18393a0ae385SPavel Begunkovconfig IO_URING_MOCK_FILE 18403a0ae385SPavel Begunkov tristate "Enable io_uring mock files (Experimental)" if EXPERT 18413a0ae385SPavel Begunkov default n 18423a0ae385SPavel Begunkov depends on IO_URING 18433a0ae385SPavel Begunkov help 18443a0ae385SPavel Begunkov Enable mock files for io_uring subststem testing. The ABI might 18453a0ae385SPavel Begunkov still change, so it's still experimental and should only be enabled 18463a0ae385SPavel Begunkov for specific test purposes. 18473a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 18483a0ae385SPavel Begunkov If unsure, say N. 18493a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 1850d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1851d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1852d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1853d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1854d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1855d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1856d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1857d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1858d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1859d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 18605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 18615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 18625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 18635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 18645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 18655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 18665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1872a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1873a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1874a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1875a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1876a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1877a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1878a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1879a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1880a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1881a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1882a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1883a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1884a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1885a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1886a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1887a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1888a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1889a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1890a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1891a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1892a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1893a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1894a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1895a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1896a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1897a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1898a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1899a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1900a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1901a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1902a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1903a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1904a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1905a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1906a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1907a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1908a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1909a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1910a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1911a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1912a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1913a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1914a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1915d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1916d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1917d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1918d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1919d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1920d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1921d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1922d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 192330f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 192430f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 192530f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 192630f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 192730f3bb09SZhen Lei help 192830f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 192930f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 193030f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 193130f3bb09SZhen Lei 193230f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 193330f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 193430f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 193530f3bb09SZhen Lei 1936d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1937d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1938d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1939d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1940d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1941d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1942bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1943bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1944bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1945bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1946d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1947d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1948d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1949d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1950d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1951d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1952bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1953d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1954d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1955d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 19563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 19573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 19583ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 195970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 196070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 196170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19625796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19635796d396SJeff Xu bool 19645796d396SJeff Xu help 19655796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19665796d396SJeff Xu 19675796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19685796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19695796d396SJeff Xu 19705796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19715796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19725796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19735796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19745796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19755796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19765796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19775796d396SJeff Xu 19785796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19795796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19805796d396SJeff Xu 19815796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19825796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19835796d396SJeff Xu 1984cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19850793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1986018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1987018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19880793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19892aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19902aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19912aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19922aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1993906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1994906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1995906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1996906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1997906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 199857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2000cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 200157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 2002392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 2003cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 2004e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 20050793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 200657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 200757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 20080793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2009dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 201057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 201157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 201257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 201357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 20140793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 20150793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 20160793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 20170793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 20180793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 20190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 202057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 2021dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 202257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 20230793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 20240793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 20250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20260793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 20270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2028906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2029906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 2030906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 2031cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 2032906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2033906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2034906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 2035906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2036906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 2037906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 2038906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2039906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 2040906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 20410793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 20420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2043091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2044091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2045091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2046091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2047091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2048d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2049091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2050091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2051091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2052091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2053091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2054091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 205582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2056091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2057091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2058091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2059091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 206082c04ff8SPeter Foley 2061125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2062b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2063125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2064125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2065f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2066125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20672f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20692f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2071ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2072ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2073f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20755daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20768b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2077ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2078af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2079f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 208093e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20812f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20822f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20832f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20842f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20852f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20862f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20872f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20882f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20892f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20912f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20942f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20962f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20975134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20985134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20995134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 21002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21012f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 21022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 21032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 21049e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2105c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2106c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2107c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2108c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2109aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 21102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21115f87f112SIngo Molnar# 21125f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 21135f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 21145f87f112SIngo Molnar# 211597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 21165f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2117a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 211897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 211989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 212089cde455SEric DeVolder 21211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21231572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 21241572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2125ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 21266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21271c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2128ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2129c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2130c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2131c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2132c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 213373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 21346c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 213598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 213698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 213798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21385f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21395f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 214098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 214198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2142692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 214398a79d6aSRusty Russell 21443a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2145e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2146e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2147e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2148e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 214916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 215016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 215116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 215216295becSSteffen Klassert 21534520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21544520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21554520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21564520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21574520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21584520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21594520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21604520c6a4SDavid Howells 21616beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2162e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21630ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21640ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21650ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21664ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21674ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21684ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2169e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2170e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21711bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21721bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21737303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21747303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21757303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21767303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21777303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21787303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21791bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21801bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2181