1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 99587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 102e2ffa15bSThomas Gleixner # Detect basic support 103f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 104e2ffa15bSThomas Gleixner # Detect clang (< v17) scoped label issues 105*fde0ab43SLinus Torvalds depends on $(success,echo 'void b(void **);void* c(void);int f(void){{asm goto(""::::l0);return 0;l0:return 1;}void *x __attribute__((cleanup(b)))=c();{asm goto(""::::l1);return 2;l1:return 3;}}' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 106587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1071aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1081aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1091aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 110534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 1111aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1125cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1132d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 115eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 116eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 117eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 118f72e2cffSHeiko Carstensconfig CC_HAS_ASSUME 119f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens bool 120f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # clang needs to be at least 19.1.0 since the meaning of the assume 121f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # attribute changed: 122f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c44fa3e8a9a44c2e9a575768a3c185354b9f6c17 123f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190100 124f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # supported since gcc 13.1.0 125f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106654 126f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 130100 127f72e2cffSHeiko Carstens 12851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 12951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 13051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 131f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1325106c650SJan Hendrik Farr bool 13386a9b125SNathan Chancellor # clang needs to be at least 20.1.0 to avoid potential crashes 13486a9b125SNathan Chancellor # when building structures that contain __counted_by 13586a9b125SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2114 13686a9b125SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/160fb1121cdf703c3ef5e61fb26c5659eb581489 13786a9b125SNathan Chancellor default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 200100 1385106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # supported since gcc 15.1.0 1395106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896 1405106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 150100 141f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 142b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 143b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 144b688f369SKees Cook 145e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 146e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 147e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 148e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 149e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 15047cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 15147cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 15247cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 15336174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 15436174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 15536174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1567129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1577129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1587129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 1590aa2b78cSBoqun Fengconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_WITH_NUL 1600aa2b78cSBoqun Feng def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108900 1610aa2b78cSBoqun Feng 162c09461a0SAlice Ryhlconfig RUSTC_HAS_FILE_AS_C_STR 163c09461a0SAlice Ryhl def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 109100 164c09461a0SAlice Ryhl 165613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 166613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 167613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 168613fe169SNathan Chancellor 169b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 170b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 171b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 172e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 173fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 174e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 17510916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1761dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1771dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 178c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 179c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 180c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 181c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 182c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 183c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 184c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 185c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 186c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 187c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 188ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 192fefbeed8SAndrew Morton help 193fefbeed8SAndrew Morton This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to 194fefbeed8SAndrew Morton compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to 195fefbeed8SAndrew Morton new infrastructure. 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 204dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 205dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 20834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2104bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 2114bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 212ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 2134bb16672SJiri Slaby help 2144bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 2154bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 2164bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 2174bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 2184bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 2194bb16672SJiri Slaby 2204bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 2214bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 2224bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 2234bb16672SJiri Slaby 2243fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2253fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 226b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2273fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2283fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 230e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 231e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 232e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2333fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 234e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 235e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2363fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2373fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2383fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2393fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2403fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 241d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 242d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 243fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 244d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 245d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 246d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 247d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 248d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 249d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 250d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 262aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 263aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 264ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 265aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 266aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2686e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 269aaebf433SRyan Anderson 270aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 272aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 274aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2750f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2766e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2776e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2786e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 281aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2829afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2839afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2849afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2859afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2869afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2879afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2889afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2899afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2909afb719eSLaura Abbott 2912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 3003ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3013ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 3023ebe1243SLasse Collin 3037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 3057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 306e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 307e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 308e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 30948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 31048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 31148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 312f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 313f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 314f16466afSVasily Gorbik 31530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 31848f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 32230d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 32530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 32730d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 32830d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 32930d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 33230d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 33630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 33830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 34030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 34330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 34430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 34530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 34730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 34830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3490a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 35330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 35430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 35530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 35730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3600a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 36130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3623ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3633ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3643ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3653ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3663ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3673ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3683ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3693ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3707472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3717472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3727472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3733ebe1243SLasse Collin 3743ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3753ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3763ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3773ebe1243SLasse Collin 3787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3820a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 383681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 386e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 387e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 388e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 389e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 390e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 391e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 392e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 393e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 394e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 395e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 396e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 397e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 39848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 39948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 40048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 40148f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 40248f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 40348f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 40448f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 40548f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 40648f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 40748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 408f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 409f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 410f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 411f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 412f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 413f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 414f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 415f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 416f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 417f16466afSVasily Gorbik 41830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 41930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 420ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 421ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 422ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 423ada4ab7aSChris Down help 424ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 425ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 426ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 427ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 428ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 429ada4ab7aSChris Down 430bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 431bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 432bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 433bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 434bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 435bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 436bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 437bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 438bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 441a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 454a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 455a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 456a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 457a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 458a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 459a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4600cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4610cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4620cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4630cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 46619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 467a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 472b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 480bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 481bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 482bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 483bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 484bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 485bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 486c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 487c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 488c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 489c73be61cSDavid Howells help 490c73be61cSDavid Howells 491c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 492c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 493c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 494c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 495c73be61cSDavid Howells 496c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 497c73be61cSDavid Howells 498226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 499226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 500226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 501226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 502226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 503226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 504226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 505a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 506226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 507226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 5081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 510804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 514cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 515cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5177a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 5187a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 5197a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 5201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 521cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 5227a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 52328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 52474c3cbe3SAl Viro 525d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 526764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 527b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 52887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 529d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 533abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 534abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 53702382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 538fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 539fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 540fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 541fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 542c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 543fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 545fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 546fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 547fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 548fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 549fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 552c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 563abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 564abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 56524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 566554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 567041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 568abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 56924a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 570abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 571abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 572abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 573abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 574abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 575abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 576abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 577abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 578abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 579abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 580abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 581abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 582b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 583b58c3584SRik van Riel 584fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 585fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 586b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 587fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 588fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 589fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 590fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 591fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 592fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 593fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 594fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 59511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 59611d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 59711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 59811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 59911d4afd4SVincent Guittot 600d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 60198eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 602fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 603fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 60476504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 60598eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 60698eb401dSValentin Schneider help 607d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 608d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 60998eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 610d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 611d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 61298eb401dSValentin Schneider 61398eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 61498eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 61598eb401dSValentin Schneider 61698eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 617d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 61876504793SThara Gopinath 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 6212813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6403903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 64619c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6482813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 66019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 662f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 666391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 671391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 67219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 674391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 675391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 676391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 677391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 678391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 679391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 680391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 68119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 682391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 683391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 684391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 685391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 686391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 687391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 688391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 689eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 690eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 69198dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 692eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 693eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 694eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 695eb414681SJohannes Weiner 696eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 697eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 698eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 699eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 700eb414681SJohannes Weiner 7012ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 7022ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 7032ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 7042ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 705c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 706eb414681SJohannes Weiner 707eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 708eb414681SJohannes Weiner 709e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 710e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 711e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 712e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 713e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 714e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 715428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 716428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 717e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 7187b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 7197b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 7207b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 7217b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 7227b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 7237b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7247b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7257b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7267b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7277b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7287b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 729391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 730391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7315c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7325c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 73397577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7342c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7355c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7365c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7375c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7382c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7392c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7402c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7412c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7425c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7430af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 744c903ff83SMike Travis 7451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 746f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 747a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 760a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 764f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 765f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 766f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 76743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 768f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 769f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 770f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 771f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 77243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 773794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 774794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7751c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 776f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 777361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 778794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 784f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 785f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 786f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 787f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 788f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 789794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 790794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 791794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 79323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7942240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 797320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 798361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 80423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 80523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 80723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 80823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 80923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 81023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 8110f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 81223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 81423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 81523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8175e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8185e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 82123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 82223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 82423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 82523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 82623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 82833701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 82933701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 83033701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 83133701557SChris Down help 83233701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 83333701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 83433701557SChris Down 83533701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 83633701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 83733701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 83833701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 83933701557SChris Down 84033701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 84133701557SChris Down 8425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 84838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 84938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 85038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 88069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 88169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 88269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 88369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 88469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 88569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 88669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 88769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 88869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 88969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 89069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 89169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 89269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 89369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 89469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 89569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 89669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 89769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 89869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 89969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 90069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 90169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 90225c411fcSJohn Stultzconfig SCHED_PROXY_EXEC 90325c411fcSJohn Stultz bool "Proxy Execution" 90425c411fcSJohn Stultz # Avoid some build failures w/ PREEMPT_RT until it can be fixed 90525c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !PREEMPT_RT 90625c411fcSJohn Stultz # Need to investigate how to inform sched_ext of split contexts 90725c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT 90825c411fcSJohn Stultz # Not particularly useful until we get to multi-rq proxying 90925c411fcSJohn Stultz depends on EXPERT 91025c411fcSJohn Stultz help 91125c411fcSJohn Stultz This option enables proxy execution, a mechanism for mutex-owning 91225c411fcSJohn Stultz tasks to inherit the scheduling context of higher priority waiters. 91325c411fcSJohn Stultz 91469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 91569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 923be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 92472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 92572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 92672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 92772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 92872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 92972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 93072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 93172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 93272b252aeSMel Gorman 933c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 9343a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 935c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 936dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 937dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 938158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 939dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 940dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9413e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9420da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9433e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9445a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9455a41237aSLinus Torvalds 946f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 947f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9488e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 949f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 95002153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 95102153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 952a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 953a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 954a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 955a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 95602153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 957a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 958a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 959a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 960a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 961a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 96272b252aeSMel Gorman# 963be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 964be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 965be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 966be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 967be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 968be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 969be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 970be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 971be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 972be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 973be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 974be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 975be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 976be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 977be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 978554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 979be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 980be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 981be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9826d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 983be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 984be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 985be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9866f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9886f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 99421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 99521c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 99621c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 99723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9986341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9992bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 1000ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 100123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 10025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 10035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 10045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 1005d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 1006da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 100745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 1008ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 1009ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 1010ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 101123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 101223964d2dSLi Zefan 10133e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 10143e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 10153e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 10166a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 10176a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 10186a010a49STejun Heo help 10196a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 10206a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 10216a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 10226a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 10236a010a49STejun Heo 10246a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 10256a010a49STejun Heo 1026c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 1027a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 10283e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 102979bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 103021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 1031fdc5001bSKirill A. Shutemov select VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 103200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 1033a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 103400f0b825SBalbir Singh 103525352d2fSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE 103625352d2fSShakeel Butt bool 103725352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 103825352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 103925352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 104025352d2fSShakeel Butt default y 104125352d2fSShakeel Butt 1042940b01fcSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC 1043940b01fcSShakeel Butt bool 1044940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 1045940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 1046940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1047940b01fcSShakeel Butt default y 1048940b01fcSShakeel Butt 1049e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1050e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1051c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1052e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1053e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1054e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1055e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1056e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1057e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1058e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1059e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1060e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1061e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1062e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1063e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1064fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 106584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1070a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1079e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10837baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1086da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1092e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10937c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1094a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10957c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10967c941438SDhaval Giani help 10977c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10987c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10997c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 11007c941438SDhaval Giani 11017c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1102e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1103e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1104e179e80cSTejun Heo 1105ddceadceSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1106ddceadceSTejun Heo def_bool n 1107ddceadceSTejun Heo 11087c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11097c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 11107c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1111e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 11127c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 11137c941438SDhaval Giani 1114ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1115ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1116ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1117ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 1118ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1119ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1120ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1121ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1122ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1123ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1124d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1125ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11267c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11277c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11287c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11297c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11307c941438SDhaval Giani help 11317c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 113232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11337c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11347c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1135d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 11367c941438SDhaval Giani 1137e34e0131SMichal Koutnýconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED 1138e34e0131SMichal Koutný bool "Require boot parameter to enable group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1139e34e0131SMichal Koutný depends on RT_GROUP_SCHED 1140e34e0131SMichal Koutný default n 1141e34e0131SMichal Koutný help 1142e34e0131SMichal Koutný When set, the RT group scheduling is disabled by default. The option 1143e34e0131SMichal Koutný is in inverted form so that mere RT_GROUP_SCHED enables the group 1144e34e0131SMichal Koutný scheduling. 1145e34e0131SMichal Koutný 1146e34e0131SMichal Koutný Say N if unsure. 1147e34e0131SMichal Koutný 114881951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 114981951366STejun Heo bool 115081951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 115181951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1152ddceadceSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_BANDWIDTH 115381951366STejun Heo default y 115481951366STejun Heo 11557c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11567c941438SDhaval Giani 1157af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1158af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1159af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1160af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11612480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11622480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11632480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11642480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11652480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11662480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11672480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11682480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11692480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11702480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11712480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11722480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11732480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11742480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11752480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11762480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11772480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11782480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11792480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11802480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11812480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11822480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11926cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 119598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 119939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 120039d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 120139d3e758SParav Pandit help 120239d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 120339d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 120439d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 120539d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 120639d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 120739d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 120839d3e758SParav Pandit 1209b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1210b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1211e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1212b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1213b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1214b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1215b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1216b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1217b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1218b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 12196bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 12206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 12216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 12236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 12246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1225489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1226489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1227489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1228489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1229489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 12326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 12336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1234afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 12396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 12426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 12446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1245afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 12476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1248e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1249bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 12506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 12526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1255afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1257afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12581abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12591abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12601abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12611abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12621abab1baSChen Ridong help 12631abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12641abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1265dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1266dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12671abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12681abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12691abab1baSChen Ridong 12701abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12711abab1baSChen Ridong 12726bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1274dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 127589e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 127689e9b9e0STejun Heo 12776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12956546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12966546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 130030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 130130070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1302483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1303483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 130430070984SDaniel Mack help 130530070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 130630070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 130730070984SDaniel Mack 130830070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 130930070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 131030070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 131130070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 131230070984SDaniel Mack 1313a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1314a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1315a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1316a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1317a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1318a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1319a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1320a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1321a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1322a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1323a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1324a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1325a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1326a72232eaSVipin Sharma 13276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 132823b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 13296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 133023b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 13316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 13326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 133323b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 133423b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 133523b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 13366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 13376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 13386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 133973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 134073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 134173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 134273b35147SArnd Bergmann 134323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1344c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 13458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 13472813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 13486a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1349c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1350c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1351c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1352c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1353c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1354c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 135758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 135858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 135917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 136058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 136158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 136258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 136358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1364769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1365769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1366bad53ae2SThomas Weißschuh depends on GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 1367769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1368769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1369769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1370769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1371769071acSAndrei Vagin 1372ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1373ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 137517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1376ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1377ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1378614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1379ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1380aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 138119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13825673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1383aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1384aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1385aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1386e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1387e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1388d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1389d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1390d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1391e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1392aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1393aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 139474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13959bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 139617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 139774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 139812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1399692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 140074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 140174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1402d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1403d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 14048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 140517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1406d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1407d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1408d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1409d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 14108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 14118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 14125cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 14135cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 141430341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 14155cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1416bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 14175cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 14185cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 14195cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 14205cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 14215cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 14225cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 14235cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14245cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 14255cb366bbSAdrian Reber 14265091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 14275091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 14285091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 14295091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 14305091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 14315091faa4SMike Galbraith help 14325091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 14335091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 14345091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 14355091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 14365091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 14375091faa4SMike Galbraith 14387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 14397af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 144026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14417af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 14427af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 14437af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 14447af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 14457af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 14467af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 14477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 14487af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 14497af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1450f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1451f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1452f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1453f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1454f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1455f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1456f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14578c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1458f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1459f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1460f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1461f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1462f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1463f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1464f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1465c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1466c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1467dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1468dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1469c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1470c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 147176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 147276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1473a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 147476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 147576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 147676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14770947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 147885c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14790947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 148076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 148176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 148276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1483b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1484b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1485b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14866ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1487b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1488b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1489b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1490b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1491b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1492b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1493b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1494b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1495b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1496a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1497a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1498a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1499a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1500a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1501a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1502a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1503a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1504a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1505a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1506a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1507a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1508a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1509a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1510a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1511a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1512a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1513a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1514a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 15151274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 15161274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 151774792608SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD 15181274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 15191274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 15201274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 15211274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 15221274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 15231274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 15241274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 15251274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 152683c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 152783c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 152883c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 152983c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 153083c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 153183c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 153283c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1533877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1534877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 15352cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1536877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1537877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 153815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1539877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1540877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1541877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1542877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1543877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1544c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 154515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1546c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1547ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1548ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1549c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1550877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1551877417e6SArnd Bergmann 15525d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15625d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1566e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1567e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15698b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 158059612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 158159612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 158259612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 158359612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1584e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1585e1789d7cSXin Li 1586e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1587e1789d7cSXin Li string 1588e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1589e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1590e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 159159612b24SNathan Chancellor 15920847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15930847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15940847062aSRandy Dunlap 1595657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1596657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1597657a5209SMike Frysinger 1598657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1599657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1600657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1601657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1602657a5209SMike Frysinger 1603657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1604657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1605657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1606657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1607657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1608657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1609657a5209SMike Frysinger 1610657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1611657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1612657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1613657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1614657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1615657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1616657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1617657a5209SMike Frysinger 1618c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1619c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1620c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1621c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1622c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1623c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1624c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1625c443279aSChristian Brauner 1626c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1627c443279aSChristian Brauner 1628657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1629657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1630657a5209SMike Frysinger 16316a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 16326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1633f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1634f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 16426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 16432813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1644ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1645ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1646ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1647ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16482813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 16492813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 16502813893fSIulia Manda default y 16512813893fSIulia Manda help 16522813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 16532813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16542813893fSIulia Manda 16552813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16562813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16572813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16582813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16592813893fSIulia Manda 16602813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16612813893fSIulia Manda 1662f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1663f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1664cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1665a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1666f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1667f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1668f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1669f6187769SFabian Frederick 1670f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1671f6187769SFabian Frederick 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1685baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1686baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1687baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1688baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1689baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1690baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1691baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1692baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1693baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1694baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1695baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1696baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1697baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1698baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1699baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1700baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1701baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1702d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1703d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 17046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 170574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1706d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1707d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1708d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1709d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1710d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1711d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1712d59745ceSMatt Mackall 17135ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuhconfig PRINTK_RINGBUFFER_KUNIT_TEST 17145ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh tristate "KUnit Test for the printk ringbuffer" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 17155ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh depends on PRINTK && KUNIT 17165ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 17175ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh help 17185ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh This builds the printk ringbuffer KUnit test suite. 17195ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 17205ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 17215ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh to the KUnit documentation. 17225ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 17235ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh If unsure, say N. 17245ea2bcdfSThomas Weißschuh 1725c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 17266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1727c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1728c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1729c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1730c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1731c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1732c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1733c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1734c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1735708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1736046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1737708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 17386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1739708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1740708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1741708e9a79SMatt Mackall 17428761f1abSRalf Baechle 1743e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 17446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 17458761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 174615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1747e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1748e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1749e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1750e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1751e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 175227021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 175327021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 175527021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 17606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 17613f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1763bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1769bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1770bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1771bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1772bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1773bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 177480367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 177580367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior bool 177680367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on FUTEX && !BASE_SMALL && MMU 177780367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y 177880367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 1779c042c505SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUTEX_MPOL 1780c042c505SPeter Zijlstra bool 1781c042c505SPeter Zijlstra depends on FUTEX && NUMA 1782c042c505SPeter Zijlstra default y 1783c042c505SPeter Zijlstra 17841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1791fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1793fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1794fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1795fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1796fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1797fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1798fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1799fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1800b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 18016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1802b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1803b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1804b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1805b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1806b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1807b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1808b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1809e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 18106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1811e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1812e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1813e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1814e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1815e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1816e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1817e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 18181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 18196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1829ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 18306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1831ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1832ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1833ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1834ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1835ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1836ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 18372b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 18382b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1839561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 18402b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 18412b188cc1SJens Axboe help 18422b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 18432b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 18442b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 18452b188cc1SJens Axboe 18461802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 18471802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 1848d1fbe1ebSRandy Dunlap depends on IO_URING && GCOV_KERNEL 18491802656eSJens Axboe help 18501802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 18511802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 18521802656eSJens Axboe 18531802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 18541802656eSJens Axboe 18551802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 18561802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 18571802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 18581802656eSJens Axboe 18593a0ae385SPavel Begunkovconfig IO_URING_MOCK_FILE 18603a0ae385SPavel Begunkov tristate "Enable io_uring mock files (Experimental)" if EXPERT 18613a0ae385SPavel Begunkov default n 18623a0ae385SPavel Begunkov depends on IO_URING 18633a0ae385SPavel Begunkov help 18643a0ae385SPavel Begunkov Enable mock files for io_uring subststem testing. The ABI might 18653a0ae385SPavel Begunkov still change, so it's still experimental and should only be enabled 18663a0ae385SPavel Begunkov for specific test purposes. 18673a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 18683a0ae385SPavel Begunkov If unsure, say N. 18693a0ae385SPavel Begunkov 1870d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1871d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1872d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1873d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1874d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1875d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1876d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1877d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1878d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1879d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 18805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 18815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 18825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 18835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 18845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 18855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 18865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1892a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1893a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1894a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1895a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1896a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1897a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1898a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1899a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1900a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1901a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1902a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1903a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1904a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1905a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1906a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1907a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1908a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1909a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1910a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1911a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1912a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1913a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1914a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1915a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1916a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1917a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1918a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1919a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1920a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1921a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1922a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1923a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1924a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1925a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1926a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1927a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1928a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1929a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1930a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1931a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1932a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1933a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1934a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1935d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1936d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1937d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1938d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1939d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1940d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1941d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1942d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 194330f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 194430f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 194530f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 194630f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 194730f3bb09SZhen Lei help 194830f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 194930f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 195030f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 195130f3bb09SZhen Lei 195230f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 195330f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 195430f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 195530f3bb09SZhen Lei 1956d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1957d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1958d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1959d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1960d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1961d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1962bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1963bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1964bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1965bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1966d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1967d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1968d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1969d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1970d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1971d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1972bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1973d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1974d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1975d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 19763ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 19773ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 19783ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 197970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 198070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 198170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19825796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19835796d396SJeff Xu bool 19845796d396SJeff Xu help 19855796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19865796d396SJeff Xu 19875796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19885796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19895796d396SJeff Xu 19905796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19915796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19925796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19935796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19945796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19955796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19965796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19975796d396SJeff Xu 19985796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19995796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 20005796d396SJeff Xu 20015796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 20025796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 20035796d396SJeff Xu 2004cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 20050793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 2006018df72dSMike Frysinger help 2007018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 20080793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20092aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 20102aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 20112aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 20122aef6f30SSean Christopherson 2013906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2014906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 2015906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2016906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 2017906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 201857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 20190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2020cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 202157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 2022392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 2023cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 2024e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 20250793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 202657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 202757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 20280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2029dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 203057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 203157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 203257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 203357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 20340793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 20350793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 20360793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 20370793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 20380793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 20390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 204057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 2041dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 204257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 20430793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 20440793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 20450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 20460793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 20470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2048906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2049906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 2050906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 2051cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 2052906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 2053906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 2054906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 2055906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2056906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 2057906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 2058906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2059906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 2060906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 20610793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 20620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2063091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2064091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2065091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2066091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2067091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2068d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2069091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2070091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2071091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2072091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2073091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2074091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 207582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2076091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2077091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2078091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2079091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 208082c04ff8SPeter Foley 2081125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2082b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2083125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2084125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2085f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2086125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20872f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20882f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20892f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20902f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2091ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2092ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2093f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20942f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20955daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 209623ef9d43SKees Cook depends on !CFI || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 209723ef9d43SKees Cook select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI 2098af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2099f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 210093e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 21012f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 21022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 21032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 21052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 21062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 21082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 21092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 21112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 21132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21142f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 21152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 21162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 21175134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 21185134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 21195134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 21202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21212f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 21222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 21232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 21249e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2125c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2126c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2127c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2128c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2129aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 21302f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 21315f87f112SIngo Molnar# 21325f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 21335f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 21345f87f112SIngo Molnar# 213597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 21365f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2137a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 213897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 213989cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 214089cde455SEric DeVolder 21411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 21421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21431572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 21441572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2145ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 21466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21471c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2148ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2149c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2150c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2151c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2152c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 215373b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 21546c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 215598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 215698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 215798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21585f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21595f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 216098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 216198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2162692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 216398a79d6aSRusty Russell 21643a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2165e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2166e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2167e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2168e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 216916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 217016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 217116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 217216295becSSteffen Klassert 21734520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21744520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21754520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21764520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21774520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21784520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21794520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21804520c6a4SDavid Howells 21816beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2182e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21830ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21840ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21850ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21864ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21874ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21884ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2189e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2190e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21911bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21921bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21937303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21947303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21957303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21967303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21991bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22001bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2201