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 2128