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 RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 64 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 65 help 66 This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 67 68 Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69 to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 70 71 In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 72 why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 73 74config CC_CAN_LINK 75 bool 76 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 78 79config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80 bool 81 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83 84# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 85# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 86config GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 87 bool 88 depends on CC_IS_GCC 89 default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 90 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 91 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 92 93config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 94 def_bool y 95 depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 96 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) 97 98config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 99 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 101 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) 102 103config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 104 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 105 106config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 107 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108 109config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 110 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 111 112config PAHOLE_VERSION 113 int 114 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 115 116config CONSTRUCTORS 117 bool 118 119config IRQ_WORK 120 def_bool y if SMP 121 122config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 123 bool 124 125config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 126 bool 127 help 128 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 129 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 130 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 131 132 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 133 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 134 135menu "General setup" 136 137config BROKEN 138 bool 139 140config BROKEN_ON_SMP 141 bool 142 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 143 default y 144 145config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 146 int 147 default 32 if !UML 148 default 128 if UML 149 help 150 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 151 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 152 153config COMPILE_TEST 154 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 155 depends on HAS_IOMEM 156 help 157 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 158 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 159 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 160 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 161 drivers to compile-test them. 162 163 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 164 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 165 drivers to be distributed. 166 167config WERROR 168 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 169 default COMPILE_TEST 170 help 171 A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 172 enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 173 to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 174 such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 175 well. 176 177 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 178 and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 179 you may need to disable this config option in order to 180 successfully build the kernel. 181 182 If in doubt, say Y. 183 184config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 185 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 186 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 187 help 188 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 189 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 190 191 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 192 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 193 194config LOCALVERSION 195 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 196 help 197 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 198 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 199 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 200 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 201 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 202 be a maximum of 64 characters. 203 204config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 205 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 206 default y 207 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 208 help 209 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 210 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 211 top of tree revision. 212 213 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 214 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 215 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 216 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 217 218 (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 219 by running the command: 220 221 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 222 223 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 224 225config BUILD_SALT 226 string "Build ID Salt" 227 default "" 228 help 229 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 230 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 231 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 232 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 233 234config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 235 bool 236 237config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 238 bool 239 240config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 241 bool 242 243config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 244 bool 245 246config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 247 bool 248 249config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 250 bool 251 252config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 253 bool 254 255config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 256 bool 257 258choice 259 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 260 default KERNEL_GZIP 261 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 262 help 263 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 264 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 265 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 266 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 267 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 268 269 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 270 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 271 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 272 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 273 274 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 275 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 276 size matters less. 277 278 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 279 280config KERNEL_GZIP 281 bool "Gzip" 282 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 283 help 284 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 285 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 286 287config KERNEL_BZIP2 288 bool "Bzip2" 289 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 290 help 291 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 292 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 293 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 294 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 295 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 296 297config KERNEL_LZMA 298 bool "LZMA" 299 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 300 help 301 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 302 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 303 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 304 305config KERNEL_XZ 306 bool "XZ" 307 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 308 help 309 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 310 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 311 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 312 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 313 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 314 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 315 316 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 317 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 318 and LZO. Compression is slow. 319 320config KERNEL_LZO 321 bool "LZO" 322 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 323 help 324 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 325 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 326 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 327 328config KERNEL_LZ4 329 bool "LZ4" 330 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 331 help 332 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 333 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 334 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 335 336 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 337 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 338 faster than LZO. 339 340config KERNEL_ZSTD 341 bool "ZSTD" 342 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 343 help 344 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 345 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 346 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 347 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 348 line tool is required for compression. 349 350config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 351 bool "None" 352 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 353 help 354 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 355 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 356 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 357 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 358 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 359 360endchoice 361 362config DEFAULT_INIT 363 string "Default init path" 364 default "" 365 help 366 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 367 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 368 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 369 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 370 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 371 372config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 373 string "Default hostname" 374 default "(none)" 375 help 376 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 377 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 378 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 379 system more usable with less configuration. 380 381config SYSVIPC 382 bool "System V IPC" 383 help 384 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 385 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 386 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 387 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 388 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 389 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 390 you'll need to say Y here. 391 392 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 393 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 394 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 395 396config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 397 bool 398 depends on SYSVIPC 399 depends on SYSCTL 400 default y 401 402config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 403 def_bool y 404 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 405 406config POSIX_MQUEUE 407 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 408 depends on NET 409 help 410 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 411 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 412 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 413 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 414 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 415 416 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 417 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 418 operations on message queues. 419 420 If unsure, say Y. 421 422config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 423 bool 424 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 425 depends on SYSCTL 426 default y 427 428config WATCH_QUEUE 429 bool "General notification queue" 430 default n 431 help 432 433 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 434 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 435 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 436 notifications. 437 438 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 439 440config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 441 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 442 depends on MMU 443 default y 444 help 445 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 446 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 447 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 448 See the man page for more details. 449 450config USELIB 451 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 452 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 453 help 454 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 455 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 456 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 457 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 458 running glibc can safely disable this. 459 460config AUDIT 461 bool "Auditing support" 462 depends on NET 463 help 464 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 465 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 466 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 467 on architectures which support it. 468 469config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 470 bool 471 472config AUDITSYSCALL 473 def_bool y 474 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 475 select FSNOTIFY 476 477source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 478source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 479source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 480source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 481 482menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 483 484config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 485 bool 486 487choice 488 prompt "Cputime accounting" 489 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 490 491# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 492config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 493 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 494 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 495 help 496 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 497 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 498 granularity. 499 500 If unsure, say Y. 501 502config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 503 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 504 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 505 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 506 help 507 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 508 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 509 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 510 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 511 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 512 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 513 systems. 514 515config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 516 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 517 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 518 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 519 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 520 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 521 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 522 help 523 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 524 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 525 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 526 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 527 overhead. 528 529 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 530 dynticks subsystem development. 531 532 If unsure, say N. 533 534endchoice 535 536config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 537 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 538 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 539 help 540 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 541 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 542 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 543 small performance impact. 544 545 If in doubt, say N here. 546 547config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 548 def_bool y 549 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 550 depends on SMP 551 552config SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 553 bool 554 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 555 default y if ARM64 556 depends on SMP 557 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 558 help 559 Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 560 scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 561 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 562 HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 563 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 564 565 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 566 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 567 568 This requires the architecture to implement 569 arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 570 571config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 572 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 573 depends on MULTIUSER 574 help 575 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 576 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 577 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 578 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 579 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 580 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 581 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 582 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 583 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 584 585config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 586 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 587 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 588 default n 589 help 590 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 591 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 592 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 593 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 594 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 595 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 596 597config TASKSTATS 598 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 599 depends on NET 600 depends on MULTIUSER 601 default n 602 help 603 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 604 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 605 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 606 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 607 space on task exit. 608 609 Say N if unsure. 610 611config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 612 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 613 depends on TASKSTATS 614 select SCHED_INFO 615 help 616 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 617 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 618 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 619 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 620 621 Say N if unsure. 622 623config TASK_XACCT 624 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 625 depends on TASKSTATS 626 help 627 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 628 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 629 630 Say N if unsure. 631 632config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 633 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 634 depends on TASK_XACCT 635 help 636 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 637 task has caused. 638 639 Say N if unsure. 640 641config PSI 642 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 643 select KERNFS 644 help 645 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 646 and IO capacity are in the system. 647 648 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 649 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 650 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 651 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 652 653 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 654 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 655 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 656 657 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 658 659 Say N if unsure. 660 661config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 662 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 663 default n 664 depends on PSI 665 help 666 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 667 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 668 kernel commandline during boot. 669 670 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 671 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 672 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 673 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 674 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 675 676 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 677 used for, say Y. 678 679 Say N if unsure. 680 681endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 682 683config CPU_ISOLATION 684 bool "CPU isolation" 685 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 686 default y 687 help 688 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 689 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 690 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 691 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 692 693 Say Y if unsure. 694 695source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 696 697config IKCONFIG 698 tristate "Kernel .config support" 699 help 700 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 701 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 702 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 703 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 704 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 705 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 706 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 707 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 708 709config IKCONFIG_PROC 710 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 711 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 712 help 713 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 714 through /proc/config.gz. 715 716config IKHEADERS 717 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 718 depends on SYSFS 719 help 720 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 721 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 722 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 723 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 724 725config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 726 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 727 range 12 25 728 default 17 729 depends on PRINTK 730 help 731 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 732 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 733 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 734 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 735 736 Examples: 737 17 => 128 KB 738 16 => 64 KB 739 15 => 32 KB 740 14 => 16 KB 741 13 => 8 KB 742 12 => 4 KB 743 744config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 745 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 746 depends on SMP 747 range 0 21 748 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 749 default 12 750 depends on PRINTK 751 help 752 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 753 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 754 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 755 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 756 e.g. backtraces. 757 758 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 759 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 760 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 761 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 762 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 763 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 764 765 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 766 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 767 768 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 769 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 770 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 771 772 Examples shift values and their meaning: 773 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 774 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 775 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 776 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 777 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 778 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 779 780config PRINTK_INDEX 781 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 782 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 783 help 784 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 785 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 786 787 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 788 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 789 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 790 changed or no longer present. 791 792 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 793 794# 795# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 796# 797config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 798 bool 799 800config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 801 bool 802 803menu "Scheduler features" 804 805config UCLAMP_TASK 806 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 807 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 808 help 809 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 810 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 811 812 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 813 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 814 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 815 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 816 817 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 818 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 819 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 820 821 If in doubt, say N. 822 823config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 824 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 825 range 5 20 826 default 5 827 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 828 help 829 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 830 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 831 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 832 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 833 834 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 835 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 836 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 837 effective value to 25%. 838 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 839 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 840 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 841 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 842 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 843 that bucket. 844 845 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 846 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 847 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 848 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 849 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 850 precision. 851 852 If in doubt, use the default value. 853 854endmenu 855 856# 857# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 858# balancing logic: 859# 860config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 861 bool 862 863# 864# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 865# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 866# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 867# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 868# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 869# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 870config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 871 bool 872 873config CC_HAS_INT128 874 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 875 876config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 877 string 878 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 879 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 880 881# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 882# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 883config GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 884 def_bool y 885 886config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 887 bool 888 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 889 890# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 891config GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 892 def_bool y 893 894config CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 895 bool 896 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 897 898config CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 899 bool 900 default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 901 902# 903# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 904# 905config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 906 bool 907 908# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 909# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 910# 911config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 912 bool 913 914config NUMA_BALANCING 915 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 916 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 917 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 918 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 919 help 920 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 921 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 922 it has references to the node the task is running on. 923 924 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 925 926config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 927 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 928 default y 929 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 930 help 931 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 932 machine. 933 934config SLAB_OBJ_EXT 935 bool 936 937menuconfig CGROUPS 938 bool "Control Group support" 939 select KERNFS 940 help 941 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 942 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 943 controls or device isolation. 944 See 945 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 946 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 947 and resource control) 948 949 Say N if unsure. 950 951if CGROUPS 952 953config PAGE_COUNTER 954 bool 955 956config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 957 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 958 help 959 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 960 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 961 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 962 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 963 964 Say N if unsure. 965 966config MEMCG 967 bool "Memory controller" 968 select PAGE_COUNTER 969 select EVENTFD 970 select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 971 help 972 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 973 974config MEMCG_KMEM 975 bool 976 depends on MEMCG 977 default y 978 979config BLK_CGROUP 980 bool "IO controller" 981 depends on BLOCK 982 default n 983 help 984 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 985 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 986 policies. 987 988 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 989 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 990 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 991 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 992 993 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 994 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 995 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 996 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 997 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 998 999 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1000 1001config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1002 bool 1003 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1004 default y 1005 1006menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1007 bool "CPU controller" 1008 default n 1009 help 1010 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1011 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1012 tasks. 1013 1014if CGROUP_SCHED 1015config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1016 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1017 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1018 default CGROUP_SCHED 1019 1020config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1021 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1022 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1023 default n 1024 help 1025 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1026 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1027 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1028 restriction. 1029 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1030 1031config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1032 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1033 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1034 default n 1035 help 1036 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1037 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1038 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1039 realtime bandwidth for them. 1040 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1041 1042endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1043 1044config SCHED_MM_CID 1045 def_bool y 1046 depends on SMP && RSEQ 1047 1048config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1049 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1050 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1051 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1052 default n 1053 help 1054 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1055 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1056 1057 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1058 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1059 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1060 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1061 frequency a task will always use. 1062 1063 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1064 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1065 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1066 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1067 1068 If in doubt, say N. 1069 1070config CGROUP_PIDS 1071 bool "PIDs controller" 1072 help 1073 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1074 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1075 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1076 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1077 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1078 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1079 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1080 1081 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1082 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1083 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1084 attach to a cgroup. 1085 1086config CGROUP_RDMA 1087 bool "RDMA controller" 1088 help 1089 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1090 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1091 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1092 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1093 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1094 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1095 1096config CGROUP_FREEZER 1097 bool "Freezer controller" 1098 help 1099 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1100 cgroup. 1101 1102 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1103 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1104 1105 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1106 1107config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1108 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1109 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1110 select PAGE_COUNTER 1111 default n 1112 help 1113 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1114 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1115 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1116 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1117 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1118 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1119 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1120 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1121 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1122 1123config CPUSETS 1124 bool "Cpuset controller" 1125 depends on SMP 1126 help 1127 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1128 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1129 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1130 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1131 1132 Say N if unsure. 1133 1134config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1135 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1136 depends on CPUSETS 1137 default y 1138 1139config CGROUP_DEVICE 1140 bool "Device controller" 1141 help 1142 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1143 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1144 1145config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1146 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1147 help 1148 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1149 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1150 1151config CGROUP_PERF 1152 bool "Perf controller" 1153 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1154 help 1155 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1156 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1157 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1158 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1159 1160 Say N if unsure. 1161 1162config CGROUP_BPF 1163 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1164 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1165 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1166 help 1167 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1168 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1169 1170 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1171 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1172 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1173 inet sockets. 1174 1175config CGROUP_MISC 1176 bool "Misc resource controller" 1177 default n 1178 help 1179 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1180 1181 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1182 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1183 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1184 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1185 1186 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1187 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1188 1189config CGROUP_DEBUG 1190 bool "Debug controller" 1191 default n 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1193 help 1194 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1195 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1196 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1197 interfaces are not stable. 1198 1199 Say N. 1200 1201config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1202 bool 1203 default n 1204 1205endif # CGROUPS 1206 1207menuconfig NAMESPACES 1208 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1209 depends on MULTIUSER 1210 default !EXPERT 1211 help 1212 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1213 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1214 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1215 different namespaces. 1216 1217if NAMESPACES 1218 1219config UTS_NS 1220 bool "UTS namespace" 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1224 uname() system call 1225 1226config TIME_NS 1227 bool "TIME namespace" 1228 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1229 default y 1230 help 1231 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1232 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1233 1234config IPC_NS 1235 bool "IPC namespace" 1236 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1237 default y 1238 help 1239 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1240 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1241 1242config USER_NS 1243 bool "User namespace" 1244 default n 1245 help 1246 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1247 to provide different user info for different servers. 1248 1249 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1250 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1251 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1252 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1253 1254 If unsure, say N. 1255 1256config PID_NS 1257 bool "PID Namespaces" 1258 default y 1259 help 1260 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1261 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1262 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1263 1264config NET_NS 1265 bool "Network namespace" 1266 depends on NET 1267 default y 1268 help 1269 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1270 of the network stack. 1271 1272endif # NAMESPACES 1273 1274config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1275 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1276 depends on PROC_FS 1277 select PROC_CHILDREN 1278 select KCMP 1279 default n 1280 help 1281 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1282 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1283 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1284 entries. 1285 1286 If unsure, say N here. 1287 1288config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1289 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1290 select CGROUPS 1291 select CGROUP_SCHED 1292 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1293 help 1294 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1295 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1296 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1297 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1298 upon task session. 1299 1300config RELAY 1301 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1302 select IRQ_WORK 1303 help 1304 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1305 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1306 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1307 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1308 user space. 1309 1310 If unsure, say N. 1311 1312config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1313 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1314 help 1315 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1316 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1317 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1318 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1319 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1320 1321 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1322 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1323 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1324 1325 If unsure say Y. 1326 1327if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1328 1329source "usr/Kconfig" 1330 1331endif 1332 1333config BOOT_CONFIG 1334 bool "Boot config support" 1335 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1336 help 1337 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1338 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1339 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1340 with checksum, size and magic word. 1341 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1342 1343 If unsure, say Y. 1344 1345config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1346 bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1347 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1348 default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1349 help 1350 With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1351 out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1352 In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1353 make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1354 parameters. 1355 1356 If unsure, say N. 1357 1358config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1359 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1360 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1361 help 1362 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1363 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1364 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1365 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1366 1367 If unsure, say N. 1368 1369config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1370 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1371 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1372 help 1373 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1374 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1375 bootconfig in the initrd. 1376 1377config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1378 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1379 default y 1380 help 1381 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1382 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1383 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1384 1385 If unsure, say Y. 1386 1387choice 1388 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1389 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1390 1391config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1392 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1393 help 1394 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1395 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1396 helpful compile-time warnings. 1397 1398config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1399 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1400 help 1401 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1402 in a smaller kernel. 1403 1404endchoice 1405 1406config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1407 bool 1408 help 1409 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1410 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1411 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1412 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1413 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1414 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1415 1416config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1417 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1418 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1419 depends on EXPERT 1420 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1421 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1422 help 1423 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1424 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1425 and linking with --gc-sections. 1426 1427 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1428 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1429 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1430 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1431 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1432 own risk. 1433 1434config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1435 def_bool y 1436 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1437 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1438 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1439 1440config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1441 string 1442 depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1443 default "error" if WERROR 1444 default "warn" 1445 1446config SYSCTL 1447 bool 1448 1449config HAVE_UID16 1450 bool 1451 1452config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1453 bool 1454 help 1455 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1456 1457config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1458 bool 1459 help 1460 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1461 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1462 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1463 1464config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1465 bool 1466 help 1467 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1468 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1469 the unaligned access emulation. 1470 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1471 1472config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1473 bool 1474 1475menuconfig EXPERT 1476 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1477 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1478 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1479 help 1480 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1481 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1482 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1483 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1484 1485config UID16 1486 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1487 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1488 default y 1489 help 1490 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1491 1492config MULTIUSER 1493 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1494 default y 1495 help 1496 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1497 capabilities. 1498 1499 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1500 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1501 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1502 setgid, and capset. 1503 1504 If unsure, say Y here. 1505 1506config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1507 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1508 default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1509 help 1510 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1511 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1512 architectures. 1513 1514 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1515 1516config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1517 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1518 default y 1519 help 1520 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1521 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1522 compatibility with some systems. 1523 1524 If unsure say Y here. 1525 1526config FHANDLE 1527 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1528 select EXPORTFS 1529 default y 1530 help 1531 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1532 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1533 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1534 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1535 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1536 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1537 syscalls. 1538 1539config POSIX_TIMERS 1540 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1541 default y 1542 help 1543 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1544 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1545 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1546 1547 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1548 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1549 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1550 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1551 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1552 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1553 1554 If unsure say y. 1555 1556config PRINTK 1557 default y 1558 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1559 select IRQ_WORK 1560 help 1561 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1562 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1563 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1564 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1565 strongly discouraged. 1566 1567config BUG 1568 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1569 default y 1570 help 1571 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1572 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1573 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1574 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1575 Just say Y. 1576 1577config ELF_CORE 1578 depends on COREDUMP 1579 default y 1580 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1581 help 1582 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1583 1584 1585config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1586 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1587 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1588 select I8253_LOCK 1589 default y 1590 help 1591 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1592 support, saving some memory. 1593 1594config BASE_SMALL 1595 bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1596 help 1597 Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1598 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1599 but may reduce performance. 1600 1601config FUTEX 1602 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1603 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1604 default y 1605 imply RT_MUTEXES 1606 help 1607 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1608 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1609 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1610 1611config FUTEX_PI 1612 bool 1613 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1614 default y 1615 1616config EPOLL 1617 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1618 default y 1619 help 1620 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1621 support for epoll family of system calls. 1622 1623config SIGNALFD 1624 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1625 default y 1626 help 1627 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1628 on a file descriptor. 1629 1630 If unsure, say Y. 1631 1632config TIMERFD 1633 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1634 default y 1635 help 1636 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1637 events on a file descriptor. 1638 1639 If unsure, say Y. 1640 1641config EVENTFD 1642 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1643 default y 1644 help 1645 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1646 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1647 1648 If unsure, say Y. 1649 1650config SHMEM 1651 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1652 default y 1653 depends on MMU 1654 help 1655 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1656 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1657 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1658 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1659 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1660 1661config AIO 1662 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1663 default y 1664 help 1665 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1666 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1667 this option saves about 7k. 1668 1669config IO_URING 1670 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1671 select IO_WQ 1672 default y 1673 help 1674 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1675 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1676 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1677 1678config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1679 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1680 default y 1681 help 1682 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1683 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1684 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1685 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1686 space. 1687 1688config MEMBARRIER 1689 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1690 default y 1691 help 1692 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1693 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1694 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1695 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1696 compiler barrier. 1697 1698 If unsure, say Y. 1699 1700config KCMP 1701 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1702 help 1703 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1704 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1705 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1706 memory space. 1707 1708 If unsure, say N. 1709 1710config RSEQ 1711 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1712 default y 1713 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1714 select MEMBARRIER 1715 help 1716 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1717 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1718 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1719 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1720 per-CPU data. 1721 1722 If unsure, say Y. 1723 1724config DEBUG_RSEQ 1725 default n 1726 bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1727 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1728 help 1729 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1730 1731 If unsure, say N. 1732 1733config CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1734 bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1735 default y 1736 help 1737 Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1738 statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1739 pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1740 1741 If unsure say Y here. 1742 1743config PC104 1744 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1745 help 1746 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1747 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1748 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1749 1750config KALLSYMS 1751 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1752 default y 1753 help 1754 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1755 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1756 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1757 1758config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 1759 bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 1760 depends on KALLSYMS 1761 default n 1762 help 1763 Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 1764 kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 1765 kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 1766 1767 Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 1768 "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 1769 displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 1770 1771config KALLSYMS_ALL 1772 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1774 help 1775 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1776 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1777 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1778 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1779 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1780 variables from the data sections, etc). 1781 1782 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1783 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1784 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1785 something like this). 1786 1787 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1788 1789config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1790 bool 1791 depends on KALLSYMS 1792 default X86_64 && SMP 1793 1794config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1795 bool 1796 depends on KALLSYMS 1797 default y 1798 help 1799 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1800 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1801 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1802 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1803 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1804 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1805 address encountered in the image. 1806 1807 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1808 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1809 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1810 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1811 1812# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1813 1814config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1815 bool 1816 1817config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1818 bool 1819 1820config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1821 bool 1822 help 1823 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1824 1825config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1826 bool 1827 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1828 1829config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1830 bool 1831 help 1832 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1833 1834menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1835 1836config PERF_EVENTS 1837 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1838 default y if PROFILING 1839 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1840 select IRQ_WORK 1841 help 1842 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1843 by software and hardware. 1844 1845 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1846 use of generic tracepoints. 1847 1848 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1849 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1850 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1851 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1852 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1853 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1854 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1855 1856 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1857 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1858 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1859 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1860 capabilities on top of those. 1861 1862 Say Y if unsure. 1863 1864config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1865 default n 1866 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1867 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1868 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1869 help 1870 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1871 1872 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1873 that don't require it. 1874 1875 Say N if unsure. 1876 1877endmenu 1878 1879config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1880 def_bool n 1881 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1882 select KEYS 1883 select CRYPTO 1884 select CRYPTO_RSA 1885 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1886 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1887 select ASN1 1888 select OID_REGISTRY 1889 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1890 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1891 help 1892 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1893 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1894 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1895 verification. 1896 1897config PROFILING 1898 bool "Profiling support" 1899 help 1900 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1901 by profilers. 1902 1903config RUST 1904 bool "Rust support" 1905 depends on HAVE_RUST 1906 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1907 depends on !CFI_CLANG 1908 depends on !MODVERSIONS 1909 depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 1910 depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1911 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 1912 help 1913 Enables Rust support in the kernel. 1914 1915 This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 1916 to be selected. 1917 1918 It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 1919 written in Rust. 1920 1921 See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 1922 1923 If unsure, say N. 1924 1925config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 1926 string 1927 depends on RUST 1928 default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 1929 1930config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 1931 string 1932 depends on RUST 1933 default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 1934 1935# 1936# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1937# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1938# 1939config TRACEPOINTS 1940 bool 1941 1942source "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 1943 1944endmenu # General setup 1945 1946source "arch/Kconfig" 1947 1948config RT_MUTEXES 1949 bool 1950 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1951 1952config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1953 def_bool n 1954 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1955 1956source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1957 1958config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1959 bool 1960 help 1961 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1962 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1963 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1964 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1965 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1966 1967source "block/Kconfig" 1968 1969config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1970 bool 1971 1972config PADATA 1973 depends on SMP 1974 bool 1975 1976config ASN1 1977 tristate 1978 help 1979 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1980 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1981 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1982 functions to call on what tags. 1983 1984source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1985 1986config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 1987 bool 1988 1989config ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 1990 bool 1991 1992config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1993 bool 1994 1995# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 1996# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 1997# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 1998# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 1999# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2000# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2001# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2002config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2003 def_bool n 2004