1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 99587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 103587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1041aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1051aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1061aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 107534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1081aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1095cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1102d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1115cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 112eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 113eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 114eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 11551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 11651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 11751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 118f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 119f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 120f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 121f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 122f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 127b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 128b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 129b688f369SKees Cook 130e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 131e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 132e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 133e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 134e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 13547cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 13647cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 13747cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 138*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 139*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 140*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 141613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 142613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 143613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 144613fe169SNathan Chancellor 145b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 146b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 147b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 148e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 149fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 150e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15110916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1521dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 154c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 155c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 156c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 157c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 158c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 159c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 160c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 161c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 162c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 163c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 164ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 176dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 177dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 18034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1824bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1834bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 184ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1854bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1864bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1874bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1884bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1894bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1954bb16672SJiri Slaby 1963fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1973fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 198b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1993fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2003fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2012f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 202e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 203e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 204e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2053fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 206e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 207e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2083fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2093fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2103fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2113fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2123fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 213d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 214d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 215fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 216d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 217d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 218d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 219d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 220d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 222d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 233aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 234aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 235aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 236ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 237aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 238aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 241aaebf433SRyan Anderson 242aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 244aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 246aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2470f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 253aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2549afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2559afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2569afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2579afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2589afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2599afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2609afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2619afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2629afb719eSLaura Abbott 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2723ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2733ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2743ebe1243SLasse Collin 2757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 28348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 284f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 285f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 286f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <[email protected]>. (An older 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3210a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 32930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3300a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3310a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3343ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3353ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3363ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3373ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3383ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3393ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3403ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3413ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3427472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3437472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3447472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3473ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3483ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3493ebe1243SLasse Collin 3507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 355681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 358e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 359e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 360e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 361e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 362e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 364e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 369e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 37048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37148f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 37248f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 37348f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 37448f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 37548f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 37648f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 37748f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 37948f7ddf7SNick Terrell 380f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 381f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 382f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 383f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 384f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 385f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 386f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 387f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 388f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 389f16466afSVasily Gorbik 39030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 392ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 393ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 394ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 395ada4ab7aSChris Down help 396ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 397ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 398ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 399ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 400ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 401ada4ab7aSChris Down 402bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 403bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 404bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 405bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 406bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 407bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 408bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 409bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 410bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 413a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 426a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 427a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 428a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 429a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 430a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 431a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4320cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4330cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4340cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4350cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 43819c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 439a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 444b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 452bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 453bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 454bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 455bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 456bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 457bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 458c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 459c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 460c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 461c73be61cSDavid Howells help 462c73be61cSDavid Howells 463c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 464c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 465c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 466c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 467c73be61cSDavid Howells 468c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 469c73be61cSDavid Howells 470226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 471226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 472226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 473226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 474226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 475226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 476226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 477a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 479226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 48069369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4817374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4827374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 48369369a70SJosh Triplett help 48469369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 48569369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 48669369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 48769369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 48869369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 48969369a70SJosh Triplett 4901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 492804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 496cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 497cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4997a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5007a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5017a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 503cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5047a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 50528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50674c3cbe3SAl Viro 507d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 508764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 509b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 51087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 511d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 518fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51902382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 524c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 534c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 535abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 545abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 546abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54724a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 548554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 549041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 55124a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 559abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 561abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 562abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 563abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 564b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 565b58c3584SRik van Riel 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 567fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 568b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 571fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 572fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 573fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 574fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 575fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 576fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57711d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57811d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 58011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 58111d4afd4SVincent Guittot 582d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 58398eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 584fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 585fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58676504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58798eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider help 589d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 590d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 592d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 593d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 59498eb401dSValentin Schneider 59598eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59698eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59798eb401dSValentin Schneider 59898eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 599d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 60076504793SThara Gopinath 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6032813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6223903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6302813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 64219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 644f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 65419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 66319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 671eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 67398dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 677eb414681SJohannes Weiner 678eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 679eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 680eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 681eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 682eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6832ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6842ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6852ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6862ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 687c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 688eb414681SJohannes Weiner 689eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 690eb414681SJohannes Weiner 691e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 692e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 694e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 695e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 696e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 697428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 698428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 699e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7077b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7087b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7097b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7107b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 711391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 712391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7135c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7145c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 71597577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7162c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7175c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7195c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7212c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7222c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7232c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7245c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7250af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 726c903ff83SMike Travis 7271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 728f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 729a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 742a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 746f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 748f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 750f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 751f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 752f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 753f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 75443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 755794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 756794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7571c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 758f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 759361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 760794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 767f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 768f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 769f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 770f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 771794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 772794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 773794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7762240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 779320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 780361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7930f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7995e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8005e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81033701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 81133701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 81233701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 81333701557SChris Down help 81433701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 81533701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81633701557SChris Down 81733701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81833701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81933701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 82033701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 82133701557SChris Down 82233701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 82333701557SChris Down 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 83038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 83138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 83238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 890be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 891be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 892be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 89472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 89572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 89672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 89772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 90072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 90172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 90272b252aeSMel Gorman 903c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9043a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 905c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 906dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 907dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 908158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 909dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 910dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9113e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9120da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9133e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9145a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9155a41237aSLinus Torvalds 916f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 917f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9188e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 919f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 92002153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 92102153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 922a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 923a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 924a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 925a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 92602153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 927a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 928a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 929a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 930a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 931a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 93272b252aeSMel Gorman# 933be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 934be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 935be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 936be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 937be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 942be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 948554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9526d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 953be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 955be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9586f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9596f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9606f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9616f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9626f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9636f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 96421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 96521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 96621c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 96723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9686341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9692bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 970ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 97123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 975d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 976da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 97745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 978ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 979ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 980ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 98123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 98223964d2dSLi Zefan 9833e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9843e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9853e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9866a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9876a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9886a010a49STejun Heo help 9896a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9906a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9916a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9926a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9936a010a49STejun Heo 9946a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9956a010a49STejun Heo 996c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 997a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9983e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99979bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 100021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 100100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1002a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 100300f0b825SBalbir Singh 1004e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1005e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1006c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1007e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1008e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1009e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1010e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1011e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1014e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1016e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1017e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1018e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1019fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 102084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1025a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10292bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1034e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10387baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1041da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1047e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10487c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1049a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10507c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10517c941438SDhaval Giani help 10527c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10537c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10547c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10557c941438SDhaval Giani 10567c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1057e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1058e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1059e179e80cSTejun Heo 10607c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10617c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10627c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1063e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10647c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10657c941438SDhaval Giani 1066ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1067ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1068ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1069ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1070ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1071ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1072ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1073ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1074ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1075d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1076ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10777c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10787c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10797c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10807c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10817c941438SDhaval Giani help 10827c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 108332bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10847c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10857c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1086d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10877c941438SDhaval Giani 108881951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 108981951366STejun Heo bool 109081951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 109181951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 109281951366STejun Heo default y 109381951366STejun Heo 10947c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10957c941438SDhaval Giani 1096af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1097af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1098af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1099af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11002480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11012480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11022480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11032480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11042480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11052480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11062480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11072480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11162480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11172480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11182480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11192480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11202480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11212480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11316cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 113498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 113939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 114039d3e758SParav Pandit help 114139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 114239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 114339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 114439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 114539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 114639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 114739d3e758SParav Pandit 1148b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1149b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1150e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1151b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1152b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1153b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1154b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1155b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1156b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1157b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1164489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1165489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1166489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1167489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1168489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1173afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1184afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1187e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1188bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1194afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1196afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11971abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 11981abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 11991abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12001abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12011abab1baSChen Ridong help 12021abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12031abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1204dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1205dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12061abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12071abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12081abab1baSChen Ridong 12091abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12101abab1baSChen Ridong 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1213dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 121489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 121589e9b9e0STejun Heo 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12346546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12356546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 123930070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 124030070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1241483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1242483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124330070984SDaniel Mack help 124430070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 124530070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 124630070984SDaniel Mack 124730070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 124830070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 124930070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 125030070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 125130070984SDaniel Mack 1252a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1253a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1254a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1255a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1256a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1257a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1258a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1259a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1260a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1261a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1262a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1263a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1264a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1265a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 126723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 126923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 127223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 127323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 127423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 127873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 127973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 128073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 128173b35147SArnd Bergmann 128223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1283c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12862813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12876a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1288c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1289c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1290c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1291c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1292c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1293c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 129658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 129758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 129817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 129958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 130058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 130158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 130258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1303769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1304769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1305660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1306769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1307769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1308769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1309769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1310769071acSAndrei Vagin 1311ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1312ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 131417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1315ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1316ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1317614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1318ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1319aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 132019c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13215673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1322aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1323aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1324aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1325e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1326e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1327d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1328d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1329d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1330e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1331aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1332aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 133374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13349bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 133517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 133674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 133712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1338692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 133974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 134074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1341d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1342d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 134417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1345d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1346d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1347d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1348d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13515cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13525cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 135330341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13545cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1355bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13565cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13575cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13585cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13595cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13605cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13615cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13625cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13635cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13645cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13655091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13665091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13675091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13685091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13695091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13705091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13715091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13725091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13735091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13745091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13755091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13765091faa4SMike Galbraith 13777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13787af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 137926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13807af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13817af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13827af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13837af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13847af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13857af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13877af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13887af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1389f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1390f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1391f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1392f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1393f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1394f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1395f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13968c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1397f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1398f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1399f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1400f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1401f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1402f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1403f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1404c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1405c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1406dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1407dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1408c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1409c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 141076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 141176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1412a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 141376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 141476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 141576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14160947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 141785c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14180947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 141976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 142076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 142176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1422b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1423b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1424b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14256ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1426b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1427b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1428b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1429b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1430b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1431b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1432b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1433b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1434b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1435a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1436a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1437a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1438a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1439a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1440a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1441a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1442a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1443a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1444a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1445a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1447a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1448a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1449a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1450a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1451a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1452a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1453a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14541274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14551274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14561274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14571274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14581274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14591274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14601274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14611274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14621274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14631274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 146483c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 146583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 146683c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 146783c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 146883c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 146983c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 147083c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1471877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1472877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14732cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1474877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1475877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 147615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1477877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1478877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1479877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1480877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1481877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1482c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 148315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1484c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1485ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1486ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1487c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1488877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1489877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14905d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15005d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1504e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1505e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15078b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15088b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15098b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 151859612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151959612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 152059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 152159612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1522e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1523e1789d7cSXin Li 1524e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1525e1789d7cSXin Li string 1526e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1527e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1528e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 152959612b24SNathan Chancellor 15300847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15310847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15320847062aSRandy Dunlap 1533657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1534657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1535657a5209SMike Frysinger 1536657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1537657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1538657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1539657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1540657a5209SMike Frysinger 1541657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1542657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1543657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1544657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1545657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1546657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1547657a5209SMike Frysinger 1548657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1549657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1550657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1551657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1552657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1553657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1555657a5209SMike Frysinger 1556c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1557c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1558c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1559c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1560c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1561c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1562c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1563c443279aSChristian Brauner 1564c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1565c443279aSChristian Brauner 1566657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1567657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1568657a5209SMike Frysinger 15696a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1571f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1572f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1579ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15812813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1582ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1583ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1584ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1585ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15862813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15872813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15882813893fSIulia Manda default y 15892813893fSIulia Manda help 15902813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15912813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15922813893fSIulia Manda 15932813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15942813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15952813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15962813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15972813893fSIulia Manda 15982813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15992813893fSIulia Manda 1600f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1601f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1602cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1603a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1604f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1605f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1606f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1607f6187769SFabian Frederick 1608f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1609f6187769SFabian Frederick 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1623baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1624baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1625baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1626baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1627baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1628baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1629baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1630baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1631baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1632baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1633baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1634baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1635baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1636baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1637baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1638baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1639baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1640d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1641d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 164374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1644d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1645d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1646d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1647d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1648d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1649d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1650d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1651c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1653c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1654c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1655c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1656c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1657c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1658c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1659c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1660c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1661708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1662046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1663708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1665708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1666708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1667708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16688761f1abSRalf Baechle 1669e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16718761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 167215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1673e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1674e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1675e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1676e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1677e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 167827021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 167927021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 168127021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16873f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1689bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1695bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1696bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1697bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1698bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1699bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 17001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1707fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1709fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1710fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1711fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1712fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1713fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1714fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1715fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1716b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1718b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1719b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1720b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1721b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1722b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1723b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1724b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1725e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1727e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1728e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1729e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1730e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1731e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1732e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1733e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1745ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1747ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1748ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1749ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1750ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1751ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1752ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17532b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17542b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1755561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17562b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17572b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17582b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17592b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17602b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17612b188cc1SJens Axboe 17621802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17631802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17641802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17651802656eSJens Axboe help 17661802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17671802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17681802656eSJens Axboe 17691802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17701802656eSJens Axboe 17711802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17721802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17731802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17741802656eSJens Axboe 1775d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1776d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1777d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1778d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1779d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1780d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1781d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1782d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1783d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1784d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1797a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1798a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1799a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1800a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1801a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1823a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1824a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1825a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1826a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1827a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1828a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1829a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1838a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1839a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1840a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1841a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1842a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1843a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1844a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1845a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1846a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1847d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1848d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1849d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1850d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1851d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1852d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1853d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1854d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 185530f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 185630f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 185730f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 185830f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 185930f3bb09SZhen Lei help 186030f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 186130f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 186230f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 186330f3bb09SZhen Lei 186430f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 186530f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 186630f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 186730f3bb09SZhen Lei 1868d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1869d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1870d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1871d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1872d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1873d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1874bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1875bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1876bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1877bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1878d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1879d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1880d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1881d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1882d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1883d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1884bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1885d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1886d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1887d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18883ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18893ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18903ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 189170216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 189270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 189370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 18945796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 18955796d396SJeff Xu bool 18965796d396SJeff Xu help 18975796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 18985796d396SJeff Xu 18995796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19005796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19015796d396SJeff Xu 19025796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19035796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19045796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19055796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19065796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19075796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19085796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19095796d396SJeff Xu 19105796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19115796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19125796d396SJeff Xu 19135796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19145796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19155796d396SJeff Xu 1916cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19170793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1918018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1919018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19212aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19222aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19232aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19242aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1925906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1926906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1927906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1928906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1929906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 193057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1932cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 193357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1934392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1935cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1936e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19370793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 193857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 193957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1941dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 194257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 194357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 194457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 194557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19460793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19470793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19480793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19490793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19500793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 195257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1953dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 195457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19550793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19560793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19580793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19590793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1960906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1961906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1962906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1963cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1964906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1965906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1966906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1967906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1968906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1969906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1970906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1971906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1972906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19730793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19740793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1975091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1976091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1977091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1978091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1979091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1980d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1981091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1982091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1983091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1984091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1985091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1986091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 198782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1988091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1989091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1990091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1991091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 199282c04ff8SPeter Foley 1993125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1994b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1995125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1996125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1997f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1998125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19992f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20012f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2003ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2004ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2005f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20075daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20088b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2009ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2010af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2011f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 201293e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20262f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20282f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20295134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20305134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20315134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20332f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20342f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20352f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20369e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2037c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2038c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2039c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2040c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2041aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20422f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20435f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20445f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20455f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20465f87f112SIngo Molnar# 204797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20485f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2049a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 205097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 205189cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 205289cde455SEric DeVolder 20531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20551572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20561572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2057ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20586341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20591c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2060ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2061c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2062c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2063c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2064c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 206573b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20666c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 206798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 206898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 206998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20705f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20715f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 207298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 207398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2074692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 207598a79d6aSRusty Russell 20763a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2077e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2078e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2079e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2080e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 208116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 208216295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 208316295becSSteffen Klassert bool 208416295becSSteffen Klassert 20854520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20864520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20874520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20884520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20894520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20904520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20914520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20924520c6a4SDavid Howells 20936beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2094e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 20950ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 20960ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 20970ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 20984ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 20994ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21004ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2101e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2102e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21031bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21057303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21067303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21077303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21087303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21097303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21107303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21111bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21121bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2113