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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
11face4374SRoman Zippel
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
50b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
51b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
53e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
54e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
55e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
561dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
66c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
67c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
68c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
69ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
81dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
82dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
89bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
904bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
934bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
944bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
974bb16672SJiri Slaby
984bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
994bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1004bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1014bb16672SJiri Slaby
102e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST
103e846f0dcSJani Nikula	bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable"
104e846f0dcSJani Nikula	help
105e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are
106e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
107e846f0dcSJani Nikula
108e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested
109e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
110e846f0dcSJani Nikula
111*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
112*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
113*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
114*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
115*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
116*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
117*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
118*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
119*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
120*d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
131aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
132aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
133aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
134ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
135aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
136aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1386e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
139aaebf433SRyan Anderson
140aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1416e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
142aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
144aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1506e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
151aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1529afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1539afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1549afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1559afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1569afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1579afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1589afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1599afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1609afb719eSLaura Abbott
1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1703ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin
1737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
176e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
177e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
178e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
179f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
180f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
181f16466afSVasily Gorbik
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
185f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <[email protected]>. (An older
19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2160a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2260a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2270a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2293ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2303ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2313ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2323ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2333ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2343ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2353ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2363ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2373ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2383ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2393ebe1243SLasse Collin
2403ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2413ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2423ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2433ebe1243SLasse Collin
2447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
249681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
252e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
253e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
254e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
255e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
259e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
260e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
261e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
262e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
263e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
264f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
265f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
266f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
267f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
268f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
269f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
270f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
271f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
272f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
273f16466afSVasily Gorbik
27430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
276bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
277bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
278bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
281bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
282bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
283bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
284bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
28517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
28617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
28717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
28817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
28917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
29017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
29117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
29417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
317a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
318a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
319a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
320a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
321a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
322a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
32519c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
331b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
339bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
340bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
341bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
342bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
343bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
344bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
345226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
348226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
349226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
351226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
352a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
353226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
354226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
35569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
35669369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
357b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
35869369a70SJosh Triplett	help
35969369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
36069369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
36169369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
36269369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
36369369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
36469369a70SJosh Triplett
3651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
367804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
371cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
372cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3747a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3757a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3767a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
378cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3797a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
38028a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
38174c3cbe3SAl Viro
382d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
383764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
38487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
385d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
390abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
39402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
399c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
409c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
420abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
422ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
423554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
424041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
439b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
440b58c3584SRik van Riel
441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
443b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
45211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
45311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
45411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
45511d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
45611d4afd4SVincent Guittot
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4592813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4783903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
48419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4862813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
49819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
500f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
51019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
51919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
527eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
528eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
529eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
530eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
531eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
532eb414681SJohannes Weiner
533eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
534eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
535eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
536eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
537eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5382ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5392ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5402ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5412ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
542eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
543eb414681SJohannes Weiner
544eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
545eb414681SJohannes Weiner
546e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
547e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
548e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
549e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
550e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
551e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
552428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
553428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
554e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5685c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
570414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5712c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5725c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5752c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5772c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5800af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
581c903ff83SMike Travis
582de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
583de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
584de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
585de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
587f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
605f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
606f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
607f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
60843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
609f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
610f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
611f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
612f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
61343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
614794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
615794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
616fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
617f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
618361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
619794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
625f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
626f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
627f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
628f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
629f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
630794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
632794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
639361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6585e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6595e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
670f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
671427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
672427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
673f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
674427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
675f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
676f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
677f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
678f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
679f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
680427934b8SPetr Mladek
681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
682427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
683427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
684427934b8SPetr Mladek
685427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
686427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
687427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
688427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
689427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
690427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
691427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
692427934b8SPetr Mladek
6935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
69938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
70038ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
70138ff87f7SStephen Boyd
702be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
703be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
704be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
705be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
706be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
707be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
708be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
709be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
71072b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
71172b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
71272b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
71372b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
71472b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
71572b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
71672b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
71772b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
71872b252aeSMel Gorman
71972b252aeSMel Gorman#
720be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
721be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
722be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
723be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
724be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
725be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
726be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
727be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
728be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
729be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
730be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
731be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
732be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
733be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
734be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
735be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
736be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
737be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
738be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
7396d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
740be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
741be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
742be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
7466f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7476f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7486f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7496f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7506f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
75123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7526341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7532bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
754ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
75523964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7609991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
76145ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
762ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
763ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
764ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
76523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
76623964d2dSLi Zefan
7673e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7683e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7693e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
770c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
771a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7723e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
77379bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
77400f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
775a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
77600f0b825SBalbir Singh
777c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
778a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
779c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
780c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
781a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
782a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
783c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
784a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
785c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
786a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
787a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
788a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
789a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
79043d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
79107555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
792a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
793a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
794a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
79500a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
796c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
79784c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
79884c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
79984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
80084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
80184c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8052bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8102bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
815e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8229991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
836e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8377c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
838a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8397c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8407c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8417c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8427c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8437c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8447c941438SDhaval Giani
8457c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8467c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8477c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8487c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8497c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8507c941438SDhaval Giani
851ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
852ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
853ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
854ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
855ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
856ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
857ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
858ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
859ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
860cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
861ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8627c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8637c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8647c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8657c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8667c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8677c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
86832bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8697c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8707c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8717c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8727c941438SDhaval Giani
8737c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8747c941438SDhaval Giani
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8846cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
88798076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
89139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
89239d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
89339d3e758SParav Pandit	help
89439d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
89539d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
89639d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
89739d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
89839d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
89939d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
90039d3e758SParav Pandit
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
907489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
908489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
909489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
910489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
911489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
916afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
927afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
930e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
936afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
938afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
94289e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
94389e9b9e0STejun Heo
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9506bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
96630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
96730070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
968483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
969483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
97030070984SDaniel Mack	help
97130070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
97230070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
97330070984SDaniel Mack
97430070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
97530070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
97630070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
97730070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
97830070984SDaniel Mack
9796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
98023b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
98223b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
98523b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
98623b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
98723b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
99173b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
99273b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
99373b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
99473b35147SArnd Bergmann
99523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
996c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9992813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1001c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1002c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1003c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1004c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1005c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1006c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
100958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
101058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
101117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
101258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
101358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
101458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
101558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1016ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1017ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
101917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1020ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1021ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1022614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1023ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1024aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
102519c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
10265673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1027aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1028aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1029aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1030e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1031e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1032d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1033d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1034d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1035e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1036aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1037aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
103874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10399bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
104017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
104174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
104212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1043692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
104474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
104574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1046d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1047d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
104917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1050d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1051d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1052d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1053d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10565cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10575cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10585cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10595cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10605cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10615cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10625cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10635cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10645cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10655cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10665cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10675cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10685091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10695091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10705091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10715091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10725091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10735091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10745091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10755091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10765091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10775091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10785091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10795091faa4SMike Galbraith
10807af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10815d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
10977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11037af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11045d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11087af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11097af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11107af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11117af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11127af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11137af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11147af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11157af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11167af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11177af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11187af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11197af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
112026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11227af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11247af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11277af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11297af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1130f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1131f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1132f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1133f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1134f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1135f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1136f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
11378c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1138f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1139f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1140f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1141f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1142f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1143f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1144f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1145c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1146c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1147dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1148dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1149c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1150c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1151877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1152877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11532cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1154877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1155877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1156877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1157877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1158877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1159877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1160877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1161877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1162c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
116396fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1164b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1165c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
116631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
116731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1168c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11693a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1170c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1171877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1172877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11735d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11835d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
118716fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1188e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1189e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
11905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11918b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
11928b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
11938b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
11945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
11965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
11975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
11985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
11995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
12005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
12015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12020847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12030847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12040847062aSRandy Dunlap
1205657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1206657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1207657a5209SMike Frysinger
1208657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1209657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1210657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1211657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1212657a5209SMike Frysinger
1213657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1214657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1215657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1216657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1217657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1218657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1219657a5209SMike Frysinger
1220657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1221657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1222657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1223657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1224657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1225657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1226657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1227657a5209SMike Frysinger
1228657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1229657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1230657a5209SMike Frysinger
1231f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1232f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1233f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1234f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
12356a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1237f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1238f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1245ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12472813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1248ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1249ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1250ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1251ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12522813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12532813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12542813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12552813893fSIulia Manda	help
12562813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12572813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12582813893fSIulia Manda
12592813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12602813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12612813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12622813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12632813893fSIulia Manda
12642813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12652813893fSIulia Manda
1266f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1267f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1268a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1269f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1270f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1271f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1272f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1273f6187769SFabian Frederick
1274f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1275f6187769SFabian Frederick
12766af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12816af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12826af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12836af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1286b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
128826a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1289c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1290b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1291b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
129213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
129313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
129413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
129513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1296b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
129713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
129813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
129913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1300b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1301c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1302ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1303d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1304d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1305d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1306d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1307d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1308d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1309d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1310d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1311d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1312d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1313d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1314d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1315d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1316baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1317baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1318baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1319baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1320baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1321baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1322baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1323baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1324baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1325baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1326baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1327baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1328baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1329baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1330baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1331baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1332baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1333d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1334d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
133674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1337d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1338d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1339d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1340d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1341d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1342d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1343d59745ceSMatt Mackall
134442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
134542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
134642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
134742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
134842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1349c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1351c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1352c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1353c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1354c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1355c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1356c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1357c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1358c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1359708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1360046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1361708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1363708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1364708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1365708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13668761f1abSRalf Baechle
1367e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13686a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13698761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
137015f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1371e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1372e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1373e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1374e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1375e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1387bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1393bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1394bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1395bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1396bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1397bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
139803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
139903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
140062b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
140103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
140203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
140303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
140403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
140503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1413fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1415fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1416fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1417fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1418fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1419fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1420fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1421fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1422b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14236a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1424b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1425b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1426b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1427b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1428b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1429b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1430b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1431e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1433e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1434e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1435e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1436e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1437e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1438e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1439e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1451ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1453ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1454ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1455ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1456ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1457ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1458ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
14592b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
14602b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
14612b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
14622b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
14632b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
14642b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
14652b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
14662b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
14672b188cc1SJens Axboe
1468d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1469d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1470d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1471d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1472d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1473d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1474d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1475d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1476d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1477d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
14895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1523a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1542d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1544bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1550290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1551290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1552290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1553290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1554290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1555290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1556290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15643ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15653ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15663ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
156770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
156870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
156970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1570d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1571d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1572d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1573d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1574d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1575d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1576d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1577d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1578d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1579d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1580d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1581d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1582d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1583d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1584d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1585d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1586d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1587d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1588d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1589d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1590d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1591d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1592d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15936befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15955d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1602cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16030793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1604018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1605018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16060793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1607906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1608906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1609906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1610906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1611906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1612ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1613424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1614ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1615ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1616ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1617ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1618ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
161957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16200793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1621cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
162257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1623392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1624cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1625e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
162683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
162857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
162957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16300793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1631dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
163257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
163357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
163457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
163557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16390793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16400793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
164257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1643dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
164457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16450793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16460793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16470793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16490793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1650906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1651906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1652906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1653cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1654906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1655906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1656906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1657906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1658906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1659906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1660906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1661906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1662906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16630793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16640793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1665f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1666f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1668f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1673f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
167441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
167541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1677f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
167841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
167941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
168041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
168141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
168241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
168341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16841663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16851663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16861663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16871663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16881663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16891663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16901663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16911663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16921663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16931663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16941663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16951663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16961663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16971663f26dSTejun Heo
1698b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1699b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1700b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1701b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1702b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1703b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1704b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1705692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1706b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1707b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1708b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1709b943c460SRandy Dunlap
171081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
171181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1712a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
171381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
171681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
171781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
171804385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
172134013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
172202f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
172381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
172581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1726ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
172781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
172981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
173081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
173181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
173202f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
173302f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
173481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
173581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
173781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
173881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
173937291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
174037291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
174137291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
174281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
174381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
174481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17457660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17467660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17477660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17487660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17497660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17507660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17517660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17527660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17537660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17547660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17557660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17567660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17577660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17587660a6fdSKees Cook
1759c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1760c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1761210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1762c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1763c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1764210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1765c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1766c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1767c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17682482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17692482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17702482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17712482ddecSKees Cook	help
17722482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17732482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17742482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17752482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17762482ddecSKees Cook
1777e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1778e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1779e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1780e900a918SDan Williams	help
1781e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1782e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1783e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1784e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1785e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1786e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1787e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1788e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1789e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1790e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1791e900a918SDan Williams
1792e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1793e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1794e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1795e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1796e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1797e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1798e900a918SDan Williams
1799e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1800e900a918SDan Williams
1801345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1802345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1803b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1804345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1805345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1806345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1807345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1808345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1809345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1810345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1811345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1812ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1813ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1815ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1816ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1817ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
18183903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1819ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1820ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1821ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1822ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1823ea637639SJie Zhang
1824ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1825ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1826ea637639SJie Zhang
1827ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1828ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1829ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1830ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1831ea637639SJie Zhang
1832ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1833ea637639SJie Zhang
1834091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1835091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1836091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1837091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1838091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1839d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1840091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1841091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1842091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1843091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1844091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1845091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
184682c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1847091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1848091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1849091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1850091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
185182c04ff8SPeter Foley
1852125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1853b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1854125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1855125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1856125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1857125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18585f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18595f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18605f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18615f87f112SIngo Molnar#
186297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18635f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
186497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
18651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18671572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18681572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1869ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18706341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1871ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
187766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
187911097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18980b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18990b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1900826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1901826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1902826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1903826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
190491e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
190591e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
190691e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1907826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1913f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1914f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
191819c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19270d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
193656067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
193756067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
193856067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
193956067812SArd Biesheuvel
19401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1951106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1952106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1953106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1954091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1955106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1956106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1957106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1958cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1959106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1960228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1961228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1962228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1963228c37ffSDavid Howells
1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1969106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1970106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1971106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1972106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1973106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1974106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1976d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1977d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1978d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1979d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1980d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1981d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1982d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1983d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1984d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1985d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1986d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2009ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2010ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2011ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2012ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2013ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2014ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2015ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2016ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2017ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
201922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
202022753674SMichal Marek	string
202122753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
202222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
202322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
202422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
202522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
202622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
202722753674SMichal Marek
2028beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2031beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2032beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2033b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2034b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2036b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2038b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2039b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2041b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2042b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2044b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2045b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2046b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2047beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2048beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2049beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2050beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2052beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2053beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2054beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2055beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2056beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2057beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2058beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2064beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2065beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2066dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2067dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2068dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2069dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2070dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2071dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2072dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2073dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2074dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2075dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2076dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2077dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2078dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2079dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2080f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2081dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20820b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20830b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20846c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20856c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20866c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20876c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
208898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
208998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
209098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20915f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20925f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
209398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
209498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2095692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
209698a79d6aSRusty Russell
20973a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2098e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2099e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2100e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2101e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
210216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
210316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
210416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
210516295becSSteffen Klassert
21064520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21074520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21084520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21094520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21104520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21114520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21124520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21134520c6a4SDavid Howells
21146beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2115e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2116e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2117e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
21181bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
21191bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
21207303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
21217303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
21227303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
21237303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
21247303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
21257303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
21261bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
21271bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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