1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 91b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 92f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 93f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 99f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 104587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 105f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 106f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 107f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 108587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1101aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 112534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1131aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1152d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 118eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 119eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 12051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 12251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 123f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 124f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 125f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 126f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 128f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 129f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 130f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 132b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 133b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 134b688f369SKees Cook 135e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 136e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 137e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 138e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 139e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 14047cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 14147cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 14247cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 143*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 144*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 145*7129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 146613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 147613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 148613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 149613fe169SNathan Chancellor 150b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 151b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 152b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 153e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 154fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 155e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15610916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 159c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 160c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 161c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 162c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 163c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 164c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 165c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 166c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 167c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 168c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 169ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 181dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 182dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 18534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1884bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 189ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1954bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1964bb16672SJiri Slaby 1974bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1984bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1994bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2004bb16672SJiri Slaby 2013fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2023fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 203b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2053fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 207e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 208e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 209e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2103fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 211e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 212e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2133fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2143fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2153fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2163fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2173fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 218d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 219d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 220fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 222d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 223d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 224d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 225d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 226d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 227d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 238aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 239aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 240aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 241ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 242aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 243aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 246aaebf433SRyan Anderson 247aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 249aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 251aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2520f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 258aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2599afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2609afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2619afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2629afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2639afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2649afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2659afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2669afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2679afb719eSLaura Abbott 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2773ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2783ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2793ebe1243SLasse Collin 2807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28648f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 28848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 289f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 290f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 291f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 29548f7ddf7SNick 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 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <[email protected]>. (An older 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3187dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3197dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 32230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3260a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 33230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3360a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3370a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 33830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3393ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3403ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3413ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3423ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3463ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3477472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3487472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3497472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3503ebe1243SLasse Collin 3513ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3523ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3533ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3543ebe1243SLasse Collin 3557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 360681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 364e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 369e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 370e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 371e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 372e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 373e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 374e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 37548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37648f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 37748f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 37948f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 38048f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 38148f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 38248f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 38348f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 38448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 385f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 386f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 387f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 388f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 389f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 390f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 391f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 392f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 393f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 394f16466afSVasily Gorbik 39530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 397ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 398ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 399ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 400ada4ab7aSChris Down help 401ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 402ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 403ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 404ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 405ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 406ada4ab7aSChris Down 407bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 408bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 409bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 410bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 411bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 412bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 413bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 414bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 415bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 418a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 431a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 432a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 433a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 434a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 435a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 436a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4370cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4380cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4390cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4400cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 44319c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 444a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 449b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 457bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 458bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 459bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 460bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 461bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 462bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 463c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 464c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 465c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 466c73be61cSDavid Howells help 467c73be61cSDavid Howells 468c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 469c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 470c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 471c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 472c73be61cSDavid Howells 473c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 474c73be61cSDavid Howells 475226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 476226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 477226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 479226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 480226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 481226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 482a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 483226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 484226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 48569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4867374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4877374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 48869369a70SJosh Triplett help 48969369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 49069369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 49169369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 49269369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 49369369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 49469369a70SJosh Triplett 4951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 497804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 501cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 502cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5047a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5057a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 508cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5097a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 51028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 51174c3cbe3SAl Viro 512d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 513764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 514b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 51587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 516d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 519abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 521abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 52402382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 529c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 537abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 539c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 55224a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 553554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 554041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 55624a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 558abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 559abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 560abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 561abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 562abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 563abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 564abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 565abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 566abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 567abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 568abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 569b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 570b58c3584SRik van Riel 571fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 572fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 573b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 574fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 575fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 576fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 577fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 578fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 579fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 580fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 581fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 58211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 58311d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 58411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 58511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 58611d4afd4SVincent Guittot 587d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 589fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 590fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 59176504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 59298eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 59398eb401dSValentin Schneider help 594d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 595d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 59698eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 597d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 598d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 59998eb401dSValentin Schneider 60098eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 60198eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 60298eb401dSValentin Schneider 60398eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 604d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 60576504793SThara Gopinath 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6082813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6273903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 63319c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6352813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 64719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 648391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 649f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 65919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 66819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 671391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 672391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 674391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 675391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 676eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 677eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 67898dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 679eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 680eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 681eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 682eb414681SJohannes Weiner 683eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 684eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 685eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 686eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 687eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6882ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6892ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6902ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6912ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 692c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 693eb414681SJohannes Weiner 694eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 695eb414681SJohannes Weiner 696e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 697e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 698e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 699e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 700e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 701e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 702428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 703428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 704e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7057b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7067b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7077b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7087b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7097b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7107b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7117b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7127b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7137b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7147b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7157b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 716391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 717391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7195c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 72097577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7212c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7225c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7235c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7245c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7252c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7262c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7272c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7282c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7295c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7300af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 731c903ff83SMike Travis 7321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 733f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 734a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 747a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 752f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 753f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 75443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 755f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 756f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 757f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 758f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 75943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 760794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 761794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7621c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 764361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 765794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 771f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 772f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 773f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 774f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 775f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 776794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 777794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 778794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7812240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 784320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 785361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 78723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 79423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7980f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8045e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8055e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 81023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 81123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 81223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 81323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 81423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81533701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 81633701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 81733701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 81833701557SChris Down help 81933701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 82033701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 82133701557SChris Down 82233701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 82333701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 82433701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 82533701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 82633701557SChris Down 82733701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 82833701557SChris Down 8295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 83538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 83638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 83738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 88669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 88869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 89069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 891be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 892be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 893be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 894be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 898be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 89972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 90072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 90172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 90272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 90372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 90472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 90572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 90672b252aeSMel Gorman bool 90772b252aeSMel Gorman 908c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9093a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 910c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 911dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 912dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 913158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 914dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 915dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9163e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9170da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9183e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9195a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9205a41237aSLinus Torvalds 921f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 922f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9238e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 924f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 92502153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 92602153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 927a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 928a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 929a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 930a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 93102153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 932a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 933a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 934a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 935a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 936a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 93772b252aeSMel Gorman# 938be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 939be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 940be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 941be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 942be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 953554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 955be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 956be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9576d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 958be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 959be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 960be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9616f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9626f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9636f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9646f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9656f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9666f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9676f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9686f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 96921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 97021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 97121c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 97223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9736341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9742bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 975ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 97623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 980d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 981da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 98245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 983ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 984ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 985ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 98623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 98723964d2dSLi Zefan 9883e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9893e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9903e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9916a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9926a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9936a010a49STejun Heo help 9946a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9956a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9966a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9976a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9986a010a49STejun Heo 9996a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10006a010a49STejun Heo 1001c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1002a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 100479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 100521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 100600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1007a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 100800f0b825SBalbir Singh 1009e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1010e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1011c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1014e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1016e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1017e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1018e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1019e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1020e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1021e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1022e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1023e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1024fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 102584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10292bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1030a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10342bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1039e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10437baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1046da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1052e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10537c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1054a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10557c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10567c941438SDhaval Giani help 10577c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10587c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10597c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10607c941438SDhaval Giani 10617c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1062e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1063e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1064e179e80cSTejun Heo 10657c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10667c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10677c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1068e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10697c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10707c941438SDhaval Giani 1071ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1072ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1073ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1074ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1075ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1076ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1077ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1078ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1079ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1080d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1081ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10827c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10837c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10847c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10857c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10867c941438SDhaval Giani help 10877c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 108832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10897c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10907c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1091d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10927c941438SDhaval Giani 109381951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 109481951366STejun Heo bool 109581951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 109681951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 109781951366STejun Heo default y 109881951366STejun Heo 10997c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11007c941438SDhaval Giani 1101af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1102af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1103af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1104af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11052480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11062480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11072480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11082480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11092480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11102480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11112480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11122480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11132480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11142480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11152480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11162480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11172480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11182480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11192480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11202480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11212480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11222480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11232480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11242480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11252480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11262480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11366cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 113998076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 114439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 114539d3e758SParav Pandit help 114639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 114739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 114839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 114939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 115039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 115139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 115239d3e758SParav Pandit 1153b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1154b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1155e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1156b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1157b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1158b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1159b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1160b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1161b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1162b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1169489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1170489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1171489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1172489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1173489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1178afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1189afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1192e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1193bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1199afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1201afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12021abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12031abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12041abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12051abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12061abab1baSChen Ridong help 12071abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12081abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1209dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1210dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12111abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12121abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12131abab1baSChen Ridong 12141abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12151abab1baSChen Ridong 12166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1218dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 121989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 122089e9b9e0STejun Heo 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12396546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12406546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 124430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 124530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1246483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1247483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 124830070984SDaniel Mack help 124930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 125030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 125130070984SDaniel Mack 125230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 125330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 125430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 125530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 125630070984SDaniel Mack 1257a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1258a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1259a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1260a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1261a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1262a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1263a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1264a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1265a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1266a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1267a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1268a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1269a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1270a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 127223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 127423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 127723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 127823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 127923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 128373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 128473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 128573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 128673b35147SArnd Bergmann 128723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1288c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12912813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1293c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1294c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1295c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1296c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1297c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1298c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 130158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 130258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 130317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 130458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 130558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 130658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 130758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1308769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1309769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1310660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1311769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1312769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1313769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1314769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1315769071acSAndrei Vagin 1316ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1317ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 131917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1320ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1321ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1322614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1323ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1324aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 132519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13265673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1327aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1328aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1329aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1330e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1331e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1332d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1333d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1334d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1335e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1336aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1337aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 133874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13399bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 134017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 134174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 134212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1343692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 134474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 134574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1346d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1347d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 134917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1350d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1351d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1352d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1353d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13565cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13575cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 135830341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13595cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1360bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13615cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13625cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13635cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13645cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13655cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13665cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13675cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13685cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13695cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13705091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13715091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13725091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13735091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13745091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13755091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13765091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13775091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13785091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13795091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13805091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13815091faa4SMike Galbraith 13827af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13837af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 138426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13857af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13867af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13877af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13887af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13897af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13907af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13927af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1394f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1395f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1396f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1397f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1398f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1399f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1400f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14018c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1402f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1403f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1404f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1405f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1406f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1407f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1408f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1409c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1410c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1411dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1412dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1413c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1414c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 141576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 141676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1417a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 141876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 141976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 142076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14210947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 142285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14230947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 142476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 142576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 142676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1427b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1428b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1429b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14306ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1431b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1432b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1433b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1434b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1435b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1436b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1437b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1438b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1439b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1440a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1441a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1442a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1443a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1444a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1445a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1446a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1447a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1448a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1449a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1450a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1451a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1452a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1453a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1454a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1455a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1456a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1457a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1458a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14591274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14601274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14611274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14621274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14631274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14641274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14651274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14661274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14671274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14681274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 146983c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 147083c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 147183c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 147283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 147383c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 147483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 147583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1476877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1477877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14782cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1479877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1480877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 148115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1482877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1483877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1484877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1485877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1486877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1487c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 148815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1489c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1490ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1491ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1492c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1493877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1494877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14955d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15055d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1509e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1510e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15128b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15138b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15148b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 152359612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 152459612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 152559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 152659612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1527e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1528e1789d7cSXin Li 1529e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1530e1789d7cSXin Li string 1531e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1532e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1533e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 153459612b24SNathan Chancellor 15350847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15360847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15370847062aSRandy Dunlap 1538657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1539657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1540657a5209SMike Frysinger 1541657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1542657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1543657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1544657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1545657a5209SMike Frysinger 1546657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1547657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1548657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1549657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1550657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1551657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1552657a5209SMike Frysinger 1553657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1555657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1556657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1557657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1558657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1559657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1560657a5209SMike Frysinger 1561c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1562c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1563c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1564c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1565c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1566c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1567c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1568c443279aSChristian Brauner 1569c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1570c443279aSChristian Brauner 1571657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1572657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1573657a5209SMike Frysinger 15746a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1576f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1577f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1584ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15862813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1587ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1588ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1589ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1590ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15912813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15922813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15932813893fSIulia Manda default y 15942813893fSIulia Manda help 15952813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15962813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15972813893fSIulia Manda 15982813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15992813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16002813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16012813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16022813893fSIulia Manda 16032813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16042813893fSIulia Manda 1605f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1606f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1607cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1608a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1609f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1610f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1611f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1612f6187769SFabian Frederick 1613f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1614f6187769SFabian Frederick 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1628baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1629baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1630baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1631baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1632baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1633baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1634baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1635baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1636baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1637baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1638baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1639baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1640baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1641baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1642baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1643baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1644baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1645d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1646d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 164874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1649d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1650d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1651d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1652d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1653d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1654d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1655d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1656c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1658c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1659c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1660c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1661c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1662c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1663c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1664c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1665c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1666708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1667046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1668708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1670708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1671708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1672708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16738761f1abSRalf Baechle 1674e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16768761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 167715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1678e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1679e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1680e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1681e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1682e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 168327021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 168427021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 168627021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16923f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1694bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1700bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1701bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1702bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1703bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1704bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 17051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1712fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1714fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1715fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1716fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1717fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1718fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1719fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1720fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1721b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1723b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1724b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1725b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1726b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1727b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1728b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1729b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1730e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1732e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1733e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1734e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1735e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1736e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1737e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1738e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1750ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1752ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1753ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1754ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1755ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1756ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1757ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17582b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17592b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1760561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17612b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17622b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17632b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17642b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17652b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17662b188cc1SJens Axboe 17671802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17681802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17691802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17701802656eSJens Axboe help 17711802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 17721802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 17731802656eSJens Axboe 17741802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 17751802656eSJens Axboe 17761802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 17771802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 17781802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 17791802656eSJens Axboe 1780d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1781d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1782d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1783d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1784d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1785d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1786d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1787d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1788d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1789d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1802a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1803a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1804a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1805a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1806a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1807a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1808a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1809a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1810a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1811a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1812a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1813a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1814a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1815a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1816a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1817a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1818a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1819a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1820a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1821a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1822a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1823a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1824a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1825a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1826a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1827a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1828a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1829a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1838a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1839a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1840a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1841a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1842a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1843a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1844a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1845a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1846a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1847a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1848a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1849a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1850a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1851a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1852d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1853d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1854d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1855d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1856d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1857d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1858d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1859d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 186030f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 186130f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 186230f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 186330f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 186430f3bb09SZhen Lei help 186530f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 186630f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 186730f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 186830f3bb09SZhen Lei 186930f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 187030f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 187130f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 187230f3bb09SZhen Lei 1873d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1874d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1875d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1876d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1877d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1878d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1879bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1880bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1881bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1882bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1883d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1884d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1885d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1886d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1887d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1888d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1889bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1890d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1891d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1892d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 18933ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 18943ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 18953ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 189670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 189770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 189870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 18995796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19005796d396SJeff Xu bool 19015796d396SJeff Xu help 19025796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19035796d396SJeff Xu 19045796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19055796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19065796d396SJeff Xu 19075796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19085796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19095796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19105796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19115796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19125796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19135796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19145796d396SJeff Xu 19155796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19165796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19175796d396SJeff Xu 19185796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19195796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19205796d396SJeff Xu 1921cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19220793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1923018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1924018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19262aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19272aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19282aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19292aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1930906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1931906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1932906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1933906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1934906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 193557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19360793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1937cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 193857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1939392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1940cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1941e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19420793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 194357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 194457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1946dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 194757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 194857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 194957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 195057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19510793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19520793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19530793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19540793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19550793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19560793a61dSThomas Gleixner 195757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1958dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 195957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19600793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19610793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19630793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1965906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1966906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1967906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1968cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1969906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1970906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1971906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1972906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1973906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1974906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1975906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1976906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1977906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 19780793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 19790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1980091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1981091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1982091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1983091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1984091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1985d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1986091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1987091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1988091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1989091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1990091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1991091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 199282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1993091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1994091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1995091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1996091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 199782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1998125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1999b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2000125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2001125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2002f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2003125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20042f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2008ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2009ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2010f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20125daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20138b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2014ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2015af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2016f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 201793e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20282f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20302f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20312f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20345134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20355134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20365134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20372f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20382f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20392f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20402f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20419e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2042c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2043c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2044c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2045c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2046aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20472f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20485f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20495f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20505f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 205297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20535f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2054a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 205597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 205689cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 205789cde455SEric DeVolder 20581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20601572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20611572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2062ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20641c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2065ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2066c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2067c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2068c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2069c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 207073b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20716c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 207298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 207398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 207498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20755f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20765f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 207798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 207898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2079692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 208098a79d6aSRusty Russell 20813a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2082e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2083e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2084e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2085e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 208616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 208716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 208816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 208916295becSSteffen Klassert 20904520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20914520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20924520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20934520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20944520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20954520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20964520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20974520c6a4SDavid Howells 20986beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2099e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21000ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21010ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21020ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21034ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21044ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21054ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2106e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2107e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21081bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21091bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21107303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21117303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21127303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21157303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21161bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21171bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2118