1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config CC_VERSION_TEXT 3 string 4 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 5 help 6 This is used in unclear ways: 7 8 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 9 The 'default' property references the environment variable, 10 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 11 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 12 13 - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14 include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 15 line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16 auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17 will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 18 19config CC_IS_GCC 20 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21 22config GCC_VERSION 23 int 24 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25 default 0 26 27config CC_IS_CLANG 28 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29 30config CLANG_VERSION 31 int 32 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33 default 0 34 35config AS_IS_GNU 36 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37 38config AS_IS_LLVM 39 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40 41config AS_VERSION 42 int 43 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45 default $(as-version) 46 47config LD_IS_BFD 48 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 49 50config LD_VERSION 51 int 52 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 53 default 0 54 55config LD_IS_LLD 56 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57 58config LLD_VERSION 59 int 60 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 61 default 0 62 63config CC_CAN_LINK 64 bool 65 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 66 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 67 68config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 69 bool 70 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 71 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 72 73config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 74 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 75 76config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 77 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 78 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 79 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .\n": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 80 81config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 82 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 83 84config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 85 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86 87config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 88 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 89 90config PAHOLE_VERSION 91 int 92 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 93 94config CONSTRUCTORS 95 bool 96 97config IRQ_WORK 98 bool 99 100config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 101 bool 102 103config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 104 bool 105 help 106 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 107 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 108 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 109 110 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 111 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 112 113menu "General setup" 114 115config BROKEN 116 bool 117 118config BROKEN_ON_SMP 119 bool 120 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 121 default y 122 123config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 124 int 125 default 32 if !UML 126 default 128 if UML 127 help 128 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 129 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 130 131config COMPILE_TEST 132 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 133 depends on HAS_IOMEM 134 help 135 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 136 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 137 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 138 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 139 drivers to compile-test them. 140 141 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 142 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 143 drivers to be distributed. 144 145config WERROR 146 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 147 default COMPILE_TEST 148 help 149 A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 150 enables the '-Werror' flag to enforce that rule by default. 151 152 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 153 unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 154 you may need to disable this config option in order to 155 successfully build the kernel. 156 157 If in doubt, say Y. 158 159config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 160 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 161 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 162 help 163 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 164 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 165 166 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 167 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 168 169config LOCALVERSION 170 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 171 help 172 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 173 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 174 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 175 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 176 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 177 be a maximum of 64 characters. 178 179config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 180 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 181 default y 182 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 183 help 184 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 185 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 186 top of tree revision. 187 188 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 189 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 190 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 191 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 192 193 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 194 by running the command: 195 196 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 197 198 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 199 200config BUILD_SALT 201 string "Build ID Salt" 202 default "" 203 help 204 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 205 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 206 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 207 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 208 209config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 210 bool 211 212config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 213 bool 214 215config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 216 bool 217 218config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 219 bool 220 221config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 222 bool 223 224config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 225 bool 226 227config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 228 bool 229 230config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 231 bool 232 233choice 234 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 235 default KERNEL_GZIP 236 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 237 help 238 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 239 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 240 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 241 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 242 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 243 244 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 245 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 246 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 247 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 248 249 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 250 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 251 size matters less. 252 253 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 254 255config KERNEL_GZIP 256 bool "Gzip" 257 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 258 help 259 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 260 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 261 262config KERNEL_BZIP2 263 bool "Bzip2" 264 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 265 help 266 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 267 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 268 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 269 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 270 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 271 272config KERNEL_LZMA 273 bool "LZMA" 274 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 275 help 276 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 277 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 278 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 279 280config KERNEL_XZ 281 bool "XZ" 282 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 283 help 284 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 285 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 286 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 287 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 288 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 289 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 290 291 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 292 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 293 and LZO. Compression is slow. 294 295config KERNEL_LZO 296 bool "LZO" 297 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 298 help 299 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 300 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 301 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 302 303config KERNEL_LZ4 304 bool "LZ4" 305 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 306 help 307 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 308 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 309 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 310 311 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 312 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 313 faster than LZO. 314 315config KERNEL_ZSTD 316 bool "ZSTD" 317 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 318 help 319 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 320 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 321 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 322 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 323 line tool is required for compression. 324 325config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 326 bool "None" 327 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 328 help 329 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 330 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 331 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 332 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 333 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 334 335endchoice 336 337config DEFAULT_INIT 338 string "Default init path" 339 default "" 340 help 341 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 342 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 343 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 344 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 345 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 346 347config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 348 string "Default hostname" 349 default "(none)" 350 help 351 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 352 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 353 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 354 system more usable with less configuration. 355 356config SYSVIPC 357 bool "System V IPC" 358 help 359 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 360 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 361 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 362 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 363 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 364 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 365 you'll need to say Y here. 366 367 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 368 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 369 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 370 371config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 372 bool 373 depends on SYSVIPC 374 depends on SYSCTL 375 default y 376 377config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 378 def_bool y 379 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 380 381config POSIX_MQUEUE 382 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 383 depends on NET 384 help 385 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 386 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 387 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 388 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 389 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 390 391 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 392 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 393 operations on message queues. 394 395 If unsure, say Y. 396 397config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 398 bool 399 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 400 depends on SYSCTL 401 default y 402 403config WATCH_QUEUE 404 bool "General notification queue" 405 default n 406 help 407 408 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 409 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 410 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 411 notifications. 412 413 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 414 415config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 416 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 417 depends on MMU 418 default y 419 help 420 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 421 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 422 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 423 See the man page for more details. 424 425config USELIB 426 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 427 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 428 help 429 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 430 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 431 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 432 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 433 running glibc can safely disable this. 434 435config AUDIT 436 bool "Auditing support" 437 depends on NET 438 help 439 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 440 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 441 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 442 on architectures which support it. 443 444config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 445 bool 446 447config AUDITSYSCALL 448 def_bool y 449 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 450 select FSNOTIFY 451 452source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 453source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 454source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 455source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 456 457menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 458 459config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 460 bool 461 462choice 463 prompt "Cputime accounting" 464 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 465 466# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 467config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 468 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 469 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 470 help 471 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 472 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 473 granularity. 474 475 If unsure, say Y. 476 477config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 478 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 479 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 480 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 481 help 482 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 483 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 484 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 485 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 486 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 487 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 488 systems. 489 490config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 491 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 492 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 493 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 494 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 495 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 496 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 497 help 498 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 499 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 500 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 501 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 502 overhead. 503 504 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 505 dynticks subsystem development. 506 507 If unsure, say N. 508 509endchoice 510 511config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 512 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 513 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 514 help 515 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 516 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 517 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 518 small performance impact. 519 520 If in doubt, say N here. 521 522config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 523 def_bool y 524 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 525 depends on SMP 526 527config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 528 bool 529 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 530 default y if ARM64 531 depends on SMP 532 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 533 help 534 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 535 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 536 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 537 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 538 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 539 540 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 541 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 542 543 This requires the architecture to implement 544 arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 545 546config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 547 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 548 depends on MULTIUSER 549 help 550 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 551 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 552 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 553 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 554 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 555 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 556 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 557 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 558 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 559 560config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 561 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 562 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 563 default n 564 help 565 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 566 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 567 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 568 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 569 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 570 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 571 572config TASKSTATS 573 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 574 depends on NET 575 depends on MULTIUSER 576 default n 577 help 578 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 579 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 580 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 581 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 582 space on task exit. 583 584 Say N if unsure. 585 586config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 587 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 588 depends on TASKSTATS 589 select SCHED_INFO 590 help 591 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 592 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 593 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 594 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 595 596 Say N if unsure. 597 598config TASK_XACCT 599 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 600 depends on TASKSTATS 601 help 602 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 603 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 604 605 Say N if unsure. 606 607config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 608 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 609 depends on TASK_XACCT 610 help 611 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 612 task has caused. 613 614 Say N if unsure. 615 616config PSI 617 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 618 help 619 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 620 and IO capacity are in the system. 621 622 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 623 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 624 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 625 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 626 627 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 628 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 629 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 630 631 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 632 633 Say N if unsure. 634 635config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 636 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 637 default n 638 depends on PSI 639 help 640 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 641 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 642 kernel commandline during boot. 643 644 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 645 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 646 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 647 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 648 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 649 650 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 651 used for, say Y. 652 653 Say N if unsure. 654 655endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 656 657config CPU_ISOLATION 658 bool "CPU isolation" 659 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 660 default y 661 help 662 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 663 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 664 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 665 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 666 667 Say Y if unsure. 668 669source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 670 671config BUILD_BIN2C 672 bool 673 default n 674 675config IKCONFIG 676 tristate "Kernel .config support" 677 help 678 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 679 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 680 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 681 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 682 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 683 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 684 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 685 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 686 687config IKCONFIG_PROC 688 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 689 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 690 help 691 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 692 through /proc/config.gz. 693 694config IKHEADERS 695 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 696 depends on SYSFS 697 help 698 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 699 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 700 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 701 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 702 703config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 704 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 705 range 12 25 706 default 17 707 depends on PRINTK 708 help 709 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 710 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 711 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 712 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 713 714 Examples: 715 17 => 128 KB 716 16 => 64 KB 717 15 => 32 KB 718 14 => 16 KB 719 13 => 8 KB 720 12 => 4 KB 721 722config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 723 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 724 depends on SMP 725 range 0 21 726 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 727 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 728 depends on PRINTK 729 help 730 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 731 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 732 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 733 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 734 e.g. backtraces. 735 736 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 737 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 738 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 739 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 740 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 741 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 742 743 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 744 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 745 746 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 747 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 748 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 749 750 Examples shift values and their meaning: 751 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 752 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 753 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 754 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 755 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 756 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 757 758config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 759 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 760 range 10 21 761 default 13 762 depends on PRINTK 763 help 764 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 765 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 766 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 767 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 768 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 769 770 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 771 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 772 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 773 774 Examples: 775 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 776 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 777 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 778 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 779 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 780 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 781 782config PRINTK_INDEX 783 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 784 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 785 help 786 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 787 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 788 789 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 790 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 791 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 792 changed or no longer present. 793 794 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 795 796# 797# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 798# 799config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 800 bool 801 802config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 803 bool 804 805menu "Scheduler features" 806 807config UCLAMP_TASK 808 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 809 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 810 help 811 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 812 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 813 814 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 815 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 816 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 817 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 818 819 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 820 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 821 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 822 823 If in doubt, say N. 824 825config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 826 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 827 range 5 20 828 default 5 829 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 830 help 831 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 832 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 833 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 834 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 835 836 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 837 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 838 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 839 effective value to 25%. 840 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 841 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 842 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 843 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 844 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 845 that bucket. 846 847 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 848 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 849 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 850 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 851 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 852 precision. 853 854 If in doubt, use the default value. 855 856endmenu 857 858# 859# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 860# balancing logic: 861# 862config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 863 bool 864 865# 866# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 867# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 868# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 869# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 870# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 871# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 872config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 873 bool 874 875config CC_HAS_INT128 876 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 877 878config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 879 string 880 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 881 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 882 883# Currently, disable gcc-12 array-bounds globally. 884# We may want to target only particular configurations some day. 885config GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 886 def_bool y 887 888config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 889 bool 890 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 130000 && GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 891 892# 893# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 894# 895config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 896 bool 897 898# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 899# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 900# 901config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 902 bool 903 904config NUMA_BALANCING 905 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 906 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 907 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 908 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 909 help 910 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 911 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 912 it has references to the node the task is running on. 913 914 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 915 916config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 917 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 918 default y 919 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 920 help 921 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 922 machine. 923 924menuconfig CGROUPS 925 bool "Control Group support" 926 select KERNFS 927 help 928 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 929 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 930 controls or device isolation. 931 See 932 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 933 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 934 and resource control) 935 936 Say N if unsure. 937 938if CGROUPS 939 940config PAGE_COUNTER 941 bool 942 943config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 944 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 945 help 946 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 947 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 948 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 949 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 950 951 Say N if unsure. 952 953config MEMCG 954 bool "Memory controller" 955 select PAGE_COUNTER 956 select EVENTFD 957 help 958 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 959 960config MEMCG_SWAP 961 bool 962 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 963 default y 964 965config MEMCG_KMEM 966 bool 967 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 968 default y 969 970config BLK_CGROUP 971 bool "IO controller" 972 depends on BLOCK 973 default n 974 help 975 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 976 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 977 policies. 978 979 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 980 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 981 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 982 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 983 984 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 985 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 986 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 987 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 988 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 989 990 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 991 992config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 993 bool 994 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 995 default y 996 997menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 998 bool "CPU controller" 999 default n 1000 help 1001 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1002 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1003 tasks. 1004 1005if CGROUP_SCHED 1006config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1007 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1008 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1009 default CGROUP_SCHED 1010 1011config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1012 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1013 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1014 default n 1015 help 1016 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1017 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1018 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1019 restriction. 1020 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1021 1022config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1023 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1024 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1025 default n 1026 help 1027 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1028 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1029 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1030 realtime bandwidth for them. 1031 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1032 1033endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1034 1035config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1036 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1037 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1038 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1039 default n 1040 help 1041 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1042 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1043 1044 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1045 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1046 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1047 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1048 frequency a task will always use. 1049 1050 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1051 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1052 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1053 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1054 1055 If in doubt, say N. 1056 1057config CGROUP_PIDS 1058 bool "PIDs controller" 1059 help 1060 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1061 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1062 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1063 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1064 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1065 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1066 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1067 1068 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1069 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1070 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1071 attach to a cgroup. 1072 1073config CGROUP_RDMA 1074 bool "RDMA controller" 1075 help 1076 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1077 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1078 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1079 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1080 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1081 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1082 1083config CGROUP_FREEZER 1084 bool "Freezer controller" 1085 help 1086 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1087 cgroup. 1088 1089 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1090 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1091 1092 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1093 1094config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1095 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1096 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1097 select PAGE_COUNTER 1098 default n 1099 help 1100 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1101 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1102 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1103 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1104 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1105 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1106 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1107 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1108 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1109 1110config CPUSETS 1111 bool "Cpuset controller" 1112 depends on SMP 1113 help 1114 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1115 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1116 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1117 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1118 1119 Say N if unsure. 1120 1121config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1122 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1123 depends on CPUSETS 1124 default y 1125 1126config CGROUP_DEVICE 1127 bool "Device controller" 1128 help 1129 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1130 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1131 1132config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1133 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1134 help 1135 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1136 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1137 1138config CGROUP_PERF 1139 bool "Perf controller" 1140 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1141 help 1142 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1143 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1144 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1145 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1146 1147 Say N if unsure. 1148 1149config CGROUP_BPF 1150 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1151 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1152 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1153 help 1154 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1155 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1156 1157 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1158 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1159 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1160 inet sockets. 1161 1162config CGROUP_MISC 1163 bool "Misc resource controller" 1164 default n 1165 help 1166 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1167 1168 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1169 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1170 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1171 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1172 1173 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1174 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1175 1176config CGROUP_DEBUG 1177 bool "Debug controller" 1178 default n 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1180 help 1181 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1182 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1183 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1184 interfaces are not stable. 1185 1186 Say N. 1187 1188config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1189 bool 1190 default n 1191 1192endif # CGROUPS 1193 1194menuconfig NAMESPACES 1195 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1196 depends on MULTIUSER 1197 default !EXPERT 1198 help 1199 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1200 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1201 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1202 different namespaces. 1203 1204if NAMESPACES 1205 1206config UTS_NS 1207 bool "UTS namespace" 1208 default y 1209 help 1210 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1211 uname() system call 1212 1213config TIME_NS 1214 bool "TIME namespace" 1215 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1216 default y 1217 help 1218 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1219 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1220 1221config IPC_NS 1222 bool "IPC namespace" 1223 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1224 default y 1225 help 1226 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1227 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1228 1229config USER_NS 1230 bool "User namespace" 1231 default n 1232 help 1233 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1234 to provide different user info for different servers. 1235 1236 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1237 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1238 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1239 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1240 1241 If unsure, say N. 1242 1243config PID_NS 1244 bool "PID Namespaces" 1245 default y 1246 help 1247 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1248 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1249 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1250 1251config NET_NS 1252 bool "Network namespace" 1253 depends on NET 1254 default y 1255 help 1256 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1257 of the network stack. 1258 1259endif # NAMESPACES 1260 1261config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1262 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1263 select PROC_CHILDREN 1264 select KCMP 1265 default n 1266 help 1267 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1268 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1269 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1270 entries. 1271 1272 If unsure, say N here. 1273 1274config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1275 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1276 select CGROUPS 1277 select CGROUP_SCHED 1278 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1279 help 1280 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1281 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1282 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1283 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1284 upon task session. 1285 1286config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1287 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1288 depends on SYSFS 1289 default n 1290 help 1291 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1292 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1293 /sys/block/. 1294 1295 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1296 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1297 1298 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1299 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1300 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1301 1302 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1303 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1304 option enabled. 1305 1306 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1307 need to say Y here. 1308 1309config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1310 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1311 default n 1312 depends on SYSFS 1313 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1314 help 1315 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1316 1317 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1318 option. 1319 1320 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1321 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1322 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1323 1324config RELAY 1325 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1326 select IRQ_WORK 1327 help 1328 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1329 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1330 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1331 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1332 user space. 1333 1334 If unsure, say N. 1335 1336config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1337 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1338 help 1339 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1340 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1341 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1342 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1343 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1344 1345 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1346 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1347 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1348 1349 If unsure say Y. 1350 1351if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1352 1353source "usr/Kconfig" 1354 1355endif 1356 1357config BOOT_CONFIG 1358 bool "Boot config support" 1359 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1360 help 1361 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1362 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1363 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1364 with checksum, size and magic word. 1365 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1366 1367 If unsure, say Y. 1368 1369config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1370 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1371 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1372 help 1373 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1374 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1375 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1376 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1377 1378 If unsure, say N. 1379 1380config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1381 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1382 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1383 help 1384 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1385 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1386 bootconfig in the initrd. 1387 1388config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1389 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1390 default y 1391 help 1392 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1393 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1394 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1395 1396 If unsure, say Y. 1397 1398choice 1399 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1400 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1401 1402config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1403 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1404 help 1405 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1406 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1407 helpful compile-time warnings. 1408 1409config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1410 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1411 help 1412 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1413 in a smaller kernel. 1414 1415endchoice 1416 1417config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1418 bool 1419 help 1420 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1421 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1422 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1423 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1424 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1425 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1426 1427config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1428 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1429 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1430 depends on EXPERT 1431 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1432 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1433 help 1434 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1435 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1436 and linking with --gc-sections. 1437 1438 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1439 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1440 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1441 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1442 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1443 own risk. 1444 1445config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1446 def_bool y 1447 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1448 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1449 1450config SYSCTL 1451 bool 1452 1453config HAVE_UID16 1454 bool 1455 1456config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1457 bool 1458 help 1459 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1460 1461config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1462 bool 1463 help 1464 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1465 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1466 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1467 1468config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1469 bool 1470 help 1471 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1472 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1473 the unaligned access emulation. 1474 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1475 1476config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1477 bool 1478 1479# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1480config BPF 1481 bool 1482 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1483 1484menuconfig EXPERT 1485 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1486 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1487 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1488 help 1489 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1490 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1491 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1492 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1493 1494config UID16 1495 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1496 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1497 default y 1498 help 1499 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1500 1501config MULTIUSER 1502 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1503 default y 1504 help 1505 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1506 capabilities. 1507 1508 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1509 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1510 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1511 setgid, and capset. 1512 1513 If unsure, say Y here. 1514 1515config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1516 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1517 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1518 help 1519 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1520 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1521 architectures. 1522 1523 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1524 1525config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1526 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1527 default y 1528 help 1529 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1530 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1531 compatibility with some systems. 1532 1533 If unsure say Y here. 1534 1535config FHANDLE 1536 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1537 select EXPORTFS 1538 default y 1539 help 1540 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1541 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1542 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1543 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1544 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1545 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1546 syscalls. 1547 1548config POSIX_TIMERS 1549 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1550 default y 1551 help 1552 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1553 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1554 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1555 1556 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1557 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1558 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1559 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1560 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1561 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1562 1563 If unsure say y. 1564 1565config PRINTK 1566 default y 1567 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1568 select IRQ_WORK 1569 help 1570 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1571 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1572 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1573 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1574 strongly discouraged. 1575 1576config BUG 1577 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1578 default y 1579 help 1580 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1581 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1582 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1583 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1584 Just say Y. 1585 1586config ELF_CORE 1587 depends on COREDUMP 1588 default y 1589 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1590 help 1591 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1592 1593 1594config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1595 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1596 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1597 select I8253_LOCK 1598 default y 1599 help 1600 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1601 support, saving some memory. 1602 1603config BASE_FULL 1604 default y 1605 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1606 help 1607 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1608 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1609 but may reduce performance. 1610 1611config FUTEX 1612 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1613 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1614 default y 1615 imply RT_MUTEXES 1616 help 1617 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1618 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1619 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1620 1621config FUTEX_PI 1622 bool 1623 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1624 default y 1625 1626config EPOLL 1627 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1628 default y 1629 help 1630 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1631 support for epoll family of system calls. 1632 1633config SIGNALFD 1634 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1635 default y 1636 help 1637 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1638 on a file descriptor. 1639 1640 If unsure, say Y. 1641 1642config TIMERFD 1643 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1644 default y 1645 help 1646 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1647 events on a file descriptor. 1648 1649 If unsure, say Y. 1650 1651config EVENTFD 1652 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1653 default y 1654 help 1655 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1656 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1657 1658 If unsure, say Y. 1659 1660config SHMEM 1661 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1662 default y 1663 depends on MMU 1664 help 1665 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1666 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1667 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1668 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1669 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1670 1671config AIO 1672 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1673 default y 1674 help 1675 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1676 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1677 this option saves about 7k. 1678 1679config IO_URING 1680 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1681 select IO_WQ 1682 default y 1683 help 1684 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1685 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1686 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1687 1688config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1689 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1690 default y 1691 help 1692 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1693 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1694 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1695 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1696 space. 1697 1698config MEMBARRIER 1699 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1700 default y 1701 help 1702 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1703 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1704 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1705 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1706 compiler barrier. 1707 1708 If unsure, say Y. 1709 1710config KALLSYMS 1711 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1712 default y 1713 help 1714 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1715 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1716 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1717 1718config KALLSYMS_ALL 1719 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1721 help 1722 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1723 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1724 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1725 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1726 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1727 variables from the data sections, etc). 1728 1729 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1730 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1731 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1732 something like this). 1733 1734 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1735 1736config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1737 bool 1738 depends on KALLSYMS 1739 default X86_64 && SMP 1740 1741config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1742 bool 1743 depends on KALLSYMS 1744 default !IA64 1745 help 1746 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1747 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1748 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1749 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1750 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1751 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1752 address encountered in the image. 1753 1754 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1755 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1756 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1757 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1758 1759# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1760 1761# syscall, maps, verifier 1762 1763config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1764 bool 1765 1766config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1767 bool 1768 1769config KCMP 1770 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1771 help 1772 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1773 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1774 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1775 memory space. 1776 1777 If unsure, say N. 1778 1779config RSEQ 1780 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1781 default y 1782 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1783 select MEMBARRIER 1784 help 1785 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1786 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1787 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1788 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1789 per-CPU data. 1790 1791 If unsure, say Y. 1792 1793config DEBUG_RSEQ 1794 default n 1795 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1796 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1797 help 1798 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1799 1800 If unsure, say N. 1801 1802config EMBEDDED 1803 bool "Embedded system" 1804 select EXPERT 1805 help 1806 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1807 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1808 for configuration. 1809 1810config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1811 bool 1812 help 1813 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1814 1815config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1816 bool 1817 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1818 1819config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1820 bool 1821 help 1822 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1823 1824config PC104 1825 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1826 help 1827 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1828 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1829 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1830 1831menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1832 1833config PERF_EVENTS 1834 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1835 default y if PROFILING 1836 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1837 select IRQ_WORK 1838 select SRCU 1839 help 1840 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1841 by software and hardware. 1842 1843 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1844 use of generic tracepoints. 1845 1846 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1847 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1848 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1849 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1850 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1851 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1852 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1853 1854 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1855 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1856 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1857 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1858 capabilities on top of those. 1859 1860 Say Y if unsure. 1861 1862config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1863 default n 1864 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1865 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1866 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1867 help 1868 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1869 1870 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1871 that don't require it. 1872 1873 Say N if unsure. 1874 1875endmenu 1876 1877config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1878 def_bool n 1879 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1880 select KEYS 1881 select CRYPTO 1882 select CRYPTO_RSA 1883 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1884 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1885 select ASN1 1886 select OID_REGISTRY 1887 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1888 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1889 help 1890 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1891 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1892 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1893 verification. 1894 1895config PROFILING 1896 bool "Profiling support" 1897 help 1898 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1899 by profilers. 1900 1901# 1902# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1903# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1904# 1905config TRACEPOINTS 1906 bool 1907 1908endmenu # General setup 1909 1910source "arch/Kconfig" 1911 1912config RT_MUTEXES 1913 bool 1914 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1915 1916config BASE_SMALL 1917 int 1918 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1919 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1920 1921config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1922 def_bool n 1923 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1924 1925source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1926 1927config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1928 bool 1929 help 1930 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1931 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1932 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1933 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1934 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1935 1936source "block/Kconfig" 1937 1938config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1939 bool 1940 1941config PADATA 1942 depends on SMP 1943 bool 1944 1945config ASN1 1946 tristate 1947 help 1948 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1949 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1950 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1951 functions to call on what tags. 1952 1953source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1954 1955config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 1956 bool 1957 1958config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1959 bool 1960 1961# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 1962# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 1963# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 1964# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 1965# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 1966# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 1967# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 1968config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 1969 def_bool n 1970