1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only !! 1 config ARCH
2 config CC_VERSION_TEXT <<
3 string 2 string
4 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" !! 3 option env="ARCH"
5 help <<
6 This is used in unclear ways: <<
7 <<
8 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler i <<
9 The 'default' property references <<
10 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded <<
11 When the compiler is updated, Kcon <<
12 <<
13 - Ensure full rebuild when the compi <<
14 include/linux/compiler-version.h c <<
15 line so fixdep adds include/config <<
16 auto-generated dependency. When th <<
17 will touch it and then every file <<
18 <<
19 config CC_IS_GCC <<
20 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = <<
21 <<
22 config GCC_VERSION <<
23 int <<
24 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC <<
25 default 0 <<
26 <<
27 config CC_IS_CLANG <<
28 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = <<
29 <<
30 config CLANG_VERSION <<
31 int <<
32 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG <<
33 default 0 <<
34 <<
35 config AS_IS_GNU <<
36 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = <<
37 <<
38 config AS_IS_LLVM <<
39 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = <<
40 <<
41 config AS_VERSION <<
42 int <<
43 # Use clang version if this is the int <<
44 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM <<
45 default $(as-version) <<
46 <<
47 config LD_IS_BFD <<
48 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = <<
49 <<
50 config LD_VERSION <<
51 int <<
52 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD <<
53 default 0 <<
54 <<
55 config LD_IS_LLD <<
56 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = <<
57 <<
58 config LLD_VERSION <<
59 int <<
60 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD <<
61 default 0 <<
62 <<
63 config RUSTC_VERSION <<
64 int <<
65 default $(rustc-version) <<
66 help <<
67 It does not depend on `RUST` since t <<
68 in a `depends on`. <<
69 <<
70 config RUST_IS_AVAILABLE <<
71 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/ <<
72 help <<
73 This shows whether a suitable Rust t <<
74 <<
75 Please see Documentation/rust/quick- <<
76 to satisfy the build requirements of <<
77 <<
78 In particular, the Makefile target ' <<
79 why the Rust toolchain is not being <<
80 4
81 config RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION !! 5 config KERNELVERSION
82 int !! 6 string
83 default $(rustc-llvm-version) !! 7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
84 <<
85 config CC_CAN_LINK <<
86 bool <<
87 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/c <<
88 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/c <<
89 <<
90 config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC <<
91 bool <<
92 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/c <<
93 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/c <<
94 <<
95 # Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 <<
96 # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id <<
97 config GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN <<
98 bool <<
99 depends on CC_IS_GCC <<
100 default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 <<
101 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && <<
102 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && <<
103 <<
104 config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT <<
105 def_bool y <<
106 depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN <<
107 depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int <<
108 <<
109 config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT <<
110 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT <<
111 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in <<
112 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int * <<
113 <<
114 config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR <<
115 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD= <<
116 <<
117 config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE <<
118 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void <<
119 <<
120 config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR <<
121 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__ <<
122 8
123 config PAHOLE_VERSION !! 9 config DEFCONFIG_LIST
124 int !! 10 string
125 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pah !! 11 depends on !UML
>> 12 option defconfig_list
>> 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
>> 14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
>> 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
>> 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
>> 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
126 18
127 config CONSTRUCTORS 19 config CONSTRUCTORS
128 bool 20 bool
>> 21 depends on !UML
129 22
130 config IRQ_WORK 23 config IRQ_WORK
131 def_bool y if SMP !! 24 bool
132 25
133 config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT !! 26 config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
134 bool 27 bool
135 28
136 config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 29 config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
137 bool 30 bool
138 help 31 help
139 Select this to move thread_info off 32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
140 make this work, an arch will need to 33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
141 except flags and fix any runtime bug 34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
142 35
143 One subtle change that will be neede 36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
144 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_ 37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
145 38
146 menu "General setup" 39 menu "General setup"
147 40
148 config BROKEN 41 config BROKEN
149 bool 42 bool
150 43
151 config BROKEN_ON_SMP 44 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
152 bool 45 bool
153 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
154 default y 47 default y
155 48
156 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 49 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
157 int 50 int
158 default 32 if !UML 51 default 32 if !UML
159 default 128 if UML 52 default 128 if UML
160 help 53 help
161 Maximum of each of the number of arg 54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
162 variables passed to init from the ke 55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
163 56
>> 57
>> 58 config CROSS_COMPILE
>> 59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
>> 60 help
>> 61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
>> 62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
>> 63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
>> 64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
>> 65
164 config COMPILE_TEST 66 config COMPILE_TEST
165 bool "Compile also drivers which will 67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
166 depends on HAS_IOMEM !! 68 depends on !UML
>> 69 default n
167 help 70 help
168 Some drivers can be compiled on a di 71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
169 intended to be run on. Despite they 72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
170 when they load they cannot be used d 73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
171 developers still, opposing to distri 74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
172 drivers to compile-test them. 75 drivers to compile-test them.
173 76
174 If you are a developer and want to b 77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
175 here. If you are a user/distributor, 78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
176 drivers to be distributed. 79 drivers to be distributed.
177 80
178 config WERROR <<
179 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings <<
180 default COMPILE_TEST <<
181 help <<
182 A kernel build should not cause any <<
183 enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '- <<
184 to enforce that rule by default. Cer <<
185 such as the linker may be upgraded t <<
186 well. <<
187 <<
188 However, if you have a new (or very <<
189 and unusual warnings, or you have so <<
190 you may need to disable this config <<
191 successfully build the kernel. <<
192 <<
193 If in doubt, say Y. <<
194 <<
195 config UAPI_HEADER_TEST <<
196 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" <<
197 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_L <<
198 help <<
199 Compile test headers exported to use <<
200 self-contained, i.e. compilable as s <<
201 <<
202 If you are a developer or tester and <<
203 headers are self-contained, say Y he <<
204 <<
205 config LOCALVERSION 81 config LOCALVERSION
206 string "Local version - append to kern 82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
207 help 83 help
208 Append an extra string to the end of 84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
209 This will show up when you type unam 85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
210 The string you set here will be appe 86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
211 any files with a filename matching l 87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
212 object and source tree, in that orde 88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
213 be a maximum of 64 characters. 89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
214 90
215 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 91 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
216 bool "Automatically append version inf 92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
217 default y 93 default y
218 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
219 help 95 help
220 This will try to automatically deter 96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
221 release tree by looking for git tags 97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
222 top of tree revision. 98 top of tree revision.
223 99
224 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx wi 100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
225 if a git-based tree is found. The s 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
226 appended after any matching localver 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
227 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
228 104
229 (The actual string used here is the !! 105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
230 by running the command: 106 by running the command:
231 107
232 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
233 109
234 which is done within the script "scr 110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
235 111
236 config BUILD_SALT <<
237 string "Build ID Salt" <<
238 default "" <<
239 help <<
240 The build ID is used to link binarie <<
241 this option will use the value in th <<
242 This is mostly useful for distributi <<
243 build is unique between builds. It's <<
244 <<
245 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 112 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
246 bool 113 bool
247 114
248 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 115 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
249 bool 116 bool
250 117
251 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 118 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
252 bool 119 bool
253 120
254 config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 121 config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
255 bool 122 bool
256 123
257 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 124 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
258 bool 125 bool
259 126
260 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 127 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
261 bool 128 bool
262 129
263 config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD <<
264 bool <<
265 <<
266 config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED <<
267 bool <<
268 <<
269 choice 130 choice
270 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
271 default KERNEL_GZIP 132 default KERNEL_GZIP
272 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KE !! 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
273 help 134 help
274 The linux kernel is a kind of self-e 135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
275 Several compression algorithms are a 136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
276 in efficiency, compression and decom 137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
277 Compression speed is only relevant w 138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
278 Decompression speed is relevant at e 139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
279 140
280 If you have any problems with bzip2 141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
281 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain 142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
282 version of this functionality (bzip2 143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
283 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
284 145
285 High compression options are mostly 146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
286 are low on disk space (embedded syst 147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
287 size matters less. 148 size matters less.
288 149
289 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
290 151
291 config KERNEL_GZIP 152 config KERNEL_GZIP
292 bool "Gzip" 153 bool "Gzip"
293 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
294 help 155 help
295 The old and tried gzip compression. 156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
296 between compression ratio and decomp 157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
297 158
298 config KERNEL_BZIP2 159 config KERNEL_BZIP2
299 bool "Bzip2" 160 bool "Bzip2"
300 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
301 help 162 help
302 Its compression ratio and speed is i 163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
303 Decompression speed is slowest among 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
304 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2 165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
305 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. 166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
306 will need at least 8MB RAM or more f 167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
307 168
308 config KERNEL_LZMA 169 config KERNEL_LZMA
309 bool "LZMA" 170 bool "LZMA"
310 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
311 help 172 help
312 This compression algorithm's ratio i 173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
313 is between gzip and bzip2. Compress 174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
314 The kernel size is about 33% smaller 175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
315 176
316 config KERNEL_XZ 177 config KERNEL_XZ
317 bool "XZ" 178 bool "XZ"
318 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
319 help 180 help
320 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and inst 181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
321 BCJ filters which can improve compre 182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
322 code. The size of the kernel is abou 183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
323 comparison to gzip. On architectures 184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
324 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RI !! 185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
325 and SPARC), XZ will create a few per !! 186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
326 plain LZMA. <<
327 187
328 The speed is about the same as with 188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
329 speed of XZ is better than that of b 189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
330 and LZO. Compression is slow. 190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
331 191
332 config KERNEL_LZO 192 config KERNEL_LZO
333 bool "LZO" 193 bool "LZO"
334 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
335 help 195 help
336 Its compression ratio is the poorest 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
337 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
338 (both compression and decompression) 198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
339 199
340 config KERNEL_LZ4 200 config KERNEL_LZ4
341 bool "LZ4" 201 bool "LZ4"
342 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
343 help 203 help
344 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with 204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
345 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/comp 205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
346 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
347 207
348 Its compression ratio is worse than 208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
349 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the 209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
350 faster than LZO. 210 faster than LZO.
351 211
352 config KERNEL_ZSTD <<
353 bool "ZSTD" <<
354 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD <<
355 help <<
356 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targ <<
357 with fast decompression speed. It wi <<
358 decompress around the same speed as <<
359 will need at least 192 KB RAM or mor <<
360 line tool is required for compressio <<
361 <<
362 config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED <<
363 bool "None" <<
364 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED <<
365 help <<
366 Produce uncompressed kernel image. T <<
367 you want. It is useful for debugging <<
368 environments, where decompressing an <<
369 slow. This option allows early boot <<
370 and jump right at uncompressed kerne <<
371 <<
372 endchoice 212 endchoice
373 213
374 config DEFAULT_INIT <<
375 string "Default init path" <<
376 default "" <<
377 help <<
378 This option determines the default i <<
379 option is passed on the kernel comma <<
380 not present, we will still then move <<
381 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If <<
382 the fallback list when init= is not <<
383 <<
384 config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 214 config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
385 string "Default hostname" 215 string "Default hostname"
386 default "(none)" 216 default "(none)"
387 help 217 help
388 This option determines the default s 218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
389 calls sethostname(2). The kernel tra 219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
390 but you may wish to use a different 220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
391 system more usable with less configu 221 system more usable with less configuration.
392 222
>> 223 config SWAP
>> 224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
>> 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
>> 226 default y
>> 227 help
>> 228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
>> 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
>> 230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
>> 231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
>> 232
393 config SYSVIPC 233 config SYSVIPC
394 bool "System V IPC" 234 bool "System V IPC"
395 help !! 235 ---help---
396 Inter Process Communication is a sui 236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
397 system calls which let processes (ru 237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
398 exchange information. It is generall 238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
399 and some programs won't run unless y 239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
400 you want to run the DOS emulator dos 240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
401 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http:/ 241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
402 you'll need to say Y here. 242 you'll need to say Y here.
403 243
404 You can find documentation about IPC 244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
405 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer' 245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
406 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
407 247
408 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 248 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
409 bool 249 bool
410 depends on SYSVIPC 250 depends on SYSVIPC
411 depends on SYSCTL 251 depends on SYSCTL
412 default y 252 default y
413 253
414 config SYSVIPC_COMPAT <<
415 def_bool y <<
416 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC <<
417 <<
418 config POSIX_MQUEUE 254 config POSIX_MQUEUE
419 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
420 depends on NET 256 depends on NET
421 help !! 257 ---help---
422 POSIX variant of message queues is a 258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
423 queues every message has a priority 259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
424 of receiving it by a process. If you 260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
425 programs written e.g. for Solaris wi 261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
426 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
427 263
428 POSIX message queues are visible as 264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
429 and can be mounted somewhere if you 265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
430 operations on message queues. 266 operations on message queues.
431 267
432 If unsure, say Y. 268 If unsure, say Y.
433 269
434 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 270 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
435 bool 271 bool
436 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
437 depends on SYSCTL 273 depends on SYSCTL
438 default y 274 default y
439 275
440 config WATCH_QUEUE <<
441 bool "General notification queue" <<
442 default n <<
443 help <<
444 <<
445 This is a general notification queue <<
446 userspace by splicing them into pipe <<
447 with watches for key/keyring change <<
448 notifications. <<
449 <<
450 See Documentation/core-api/watch_que <<
451 <<
452 config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 276 config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
453 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev s 277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
454 depends on MMU 278 depends on MMU
455 default y 279 default y
456 help 280 help
457 Enabling this option adds the system 281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
458 process_vm_writev which allow a proc 282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
459 to directly read from or write to an 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
460 See the man page for more details. 284 See the man page for more details.
461 285
462 config USELIB 286 config USELIB
463 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and ea !! 287 bool "uselib syscall"
464 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC !! 288 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
465 help 289 help
466 This option enables the uselib sysca 290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
467 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlie 291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
468 system call. If you intend to run p 292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
469 earlier, you may need to enable this 293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
470 running glibc can safely disable thi 294 running glibc can safely disable this.
471 295
472 config AUDIT 296 config AUDIT
473 bool "Auditing support" 297 bool "Auditing support"
474 depends on NET 298 depends on NET
475 help 299 help
476 Enable auditing infrastructure that 300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
477 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (w 301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
478 logging of avc messages output). Sy 302 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
479 on architectures which support it. 303 on architectures which support it.
480 304
481 config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 305 config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
482 bool 306 bool
483 307
484 config AUDITSYSCALL 308 config AUDITSYSCALL
485 def_bool y 309 def_bool y
486 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYS 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
>> 311
>> 312 config AUDIT_WATCH
>> 313 def_bool y
>> 314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
>> 315 select FSNOTIFY
>> 316
>> 317 config AUDIT_TREE
>> 318 def_bool y
>> 319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
487 select FSNOTIFY 320 select FSNOTIFY
488 321
489 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 322 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
490 source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 323 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
491 source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" <<
492 source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" <<
493 324
494 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 325 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
495 326
496 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 327 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
497 bool 328 bool
498 329
499 choice 330 choice
500 prompt "Cputime accounting" 331 prompt "Cputime accounting"
501 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING !! 332 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
>> 333 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
502 334
503 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick base 335 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
504 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 336 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
505 bool "Simple tick based cputime accoun 337 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
506 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 338 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
507 help 339 help
508 This is the basic tick based cputime 340 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
509 statistics about user, system and id 341 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
510 granularity. 342 granularity.
511 343
512 If unsure, say Y. 344 If unsure, say Y.
513 345
514 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 346 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
515 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time 347 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
516 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && 348 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
517 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 349 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
518 help 350 help
519 Select this option to enable more ac 351 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
520 accounting. This is done by reading 352 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
521 kernel entry and exit and on transit 353 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
522 between system, softirq and hardirq 354 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
523 small performance impact. In the ca 355 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
524 this also enables accounting of stol 356 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
525 systems. 357 systems.
526 358
527 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 359 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
528 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accountin 360 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
529 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER !! 361 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
530 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GE 362 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
531 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS <<
532 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
533 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER !! 364 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
534 help 365 help
535 Select this option to enable task an 366 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
536 dynticks systems. This accounting is 367 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
537 kernel-user boundaries using the con 368 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
538 The accounting is thus performed at 369 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
539 overhead. 370 overhead.
540 371
541 For now this is only useful if you a 372 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
542 dynticks subsystem development. 373 dynticks subsystem development.
543 374
544 If unsure, say N. 375 If unsure, say N.
545 376
546 endchoice 377 endchoice
547 378
548 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 379 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
549 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ 380 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
550 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && 381 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
551 help 382 help
552 Select this option to enable fine gr 383 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
553 accounting. This is done by reading 384 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
554 transitions between softirq and hard 385 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
555 small performance impact. 386 small performance impact.
556 387
557 If in doubt, say N here. 388 If in doubt, say N here.
558 389
559 config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ <<
560 def_bool y <<
561 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARA <<
562 depends on SMP <<
563 <<
564 config SCHED_HW_PRESSURE <<
565 bool <<
566 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY <<
567 default y if ARM64 <<
568 depends on SMP <<
569 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL <<
570 help <<
571 Select this option to enable HW pres <<
572 scheduler. HW pressure is the value <<
573 that reflects the reduction in CPU c <<
574 HW throttling. HW throttling occurs <<
575 a CPU is capped due to high operatin <<
576 <<
577 If selected, the scheduler will be a <<
578 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs <<
579 <<
580 This requires the architecture to im <<
581 arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_s <<
582 <<
583 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 390 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
584 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 391 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
585 depends on MULTIUSER 392 depends on MULTIUSER
586 help 393 help
587 If you say Y here, a user level prog 394 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
588 kernel (via a special system call) t 395 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
589 information to a file: whenever a pr 396 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
590 that process will be appended to the 397 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
591 information includes things such as 398 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
592 command name, memory usage, controll 399 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
593 list is in the struct acct in <file: 400 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
594 up to the user level program to do u 401 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
595 information. This is generally a go 402 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
596 403
597 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 404 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
598 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 405 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
599 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 406 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
600 default n 407 default n
601 help 408 help
602 If you say Y here, the process accou 409 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
603 in a new file format that also logs 410 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
604 process and its parent. Note that th !! 411 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
605 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, 412 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
606 for processing it. A preliminary ver 413 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
607 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct 414 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
608 415
609 config TASKSTATS 416 config TASKSTATS
610 bool "Export task/process statistics t 417 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
611 depends on NET 418 depends on NET
612 depends on MULTIUSER 419 depends on MULTIUSER
613 default n 420 default n
614 help 421 help
615 Export selected statistics for tasks 422 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
616 generic netlink interface. Unlike BS 423 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
617 statistics are available during the 424 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
618 responses to commands. Like BSD acco 425 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
619 space on task exit. 426 space on task exit.
620 427
621 Say N if unsure. 428 Say N if unsure.
622 429
623 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 430 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
624 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting 431 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
625 depends on TASKSTATS 432 depends on TASKSTATS
626 select SCHED_INFO 433 select SCHED_INFO
627 help 434 help
628 Collect information on time spent by 435 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
629 resources like cpu, synchronous bloc 436 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
630 in pages. Such statistics can help i 437 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
631 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, 438 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
632 439
633 Say N if unsure. 440 Say N if unsure.
634 441
635 config TASK_XACCT 442 config TASK_XACCT
636 bool "Enable extended accounting over 443 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
637 depends on TASKSTATS 444 depends on TASKSTATS
638 help 445 help
639 Collect extended task accounting dat 446 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
640 to userland for processing over the 447 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
641 448
642 Say N if unsure. 449 Say N if unsure.
643 450
644 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 451 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
645 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O acco 452 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
646 depends on TASK_XACCT 453 depends on TASK_XACCT
647 help 454 help
648 Collect information on the number of 455 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
649 task has caused. 456 task has caused.
650 457
651 Say N if unsure. 458 Say N if unsure.
652 459
653 config PSI <<
654 bool "Pressure stall information track <<
655 select KERNFS <<
656 help <<
657 Collect metrics that indicate how ov <<
658 and IO capacity are in the system. <<
659 <<
660 If you say Y here, the kernel will c <<
661 pressure statistics files cpu, memor <<
662 the share of walltime in which some <<
663 delayed due to contention of the res <<
664 <<
665 In kernels with cgroup support, cgro <<
666 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, <<
667 which aggregate pressure stalls for <<
668 <<
669 For more details see Documentation/a <<
670 <<
671 Say N if unsure. <<
672 <<
673 config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED <<
674 bool "Require boot parameter to enable <<
675 default n <<
676 depends on PSI <<
677 help <<
678 If set, pressure stall information t <<
679 per default but can be enabled throu <<
680 kernel commandline during boot. <<
681 <<
682 This feature adds some code to the t <<
683 paths of the scheduler. The overhead <<
684 common scheduling-intense workloads <<
685 webservers, memcache), but it does s <<
686 scheduler stress tests, such as hack <<
687 <<
688 If you are paranoid and not sure wha <<
689 used for, say Y. <<
690 <<
691 Say N if unsure. <<
692 <<
693 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 460 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
694 461
695 config CPU_ISOLATION 462 config CPU_ISOLATION
696 bool "CPU isolation" 463 bool "CPU isolation"
697 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 464 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
698 default y 465 default y
699 help 466 help
700 Make sure that CPUs running critical 467 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
701 any source of "noise" such as unboun 468 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
702 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housek 469 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
703 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 470 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
704 471
705 Say Y if unsure. 472 Say Y if unsure.
706 473
707 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 474 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
708 475
>> 476 config BUILD_BIN2C
>> 477 bool
>> 478 default n
>> 479
709 config IKCONFIG 480 config IKCONFIG
710 tristate "Kernel .config support" 481 tristate "Kernel .config support"
711 help !! 482 select BUILD_BIN2C
>> 483 ---help---
712 This option enables the complete Lin 484 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
713 contents to be saved in the kernel. 485 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
714 of which kernel options are used in 486 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
715 on-disk kernel. This information ca 487 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
716 image file with the script scripts/e 488 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
717 input to rebuild the current kernel 489 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
718 It can also be extracted from a runn 490 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
719 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 491 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
720 492
721 config IKCONFIG_PROC 493 config IKCONFIG_PROC
722 bool "Enable access to .config through 494 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
723 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 495 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
724 help !! 496 ---help---
725 This option enables access to the ke 497 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
726 through /proc/config.gz. 498 through /proc/config.gz.
727 499
728 config IKHEADERS <<
729 tristate "Enable kernel headers throug <<
730 depends on SYSFS <<
731 help <<
732 This option enables access to the in <<
733 the build process. These can be used <<
734 or similar programs. If you build t <<
735 kheaders.ko is built which can be lo <<
736 <<
737 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 500 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
738 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64K 501 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
739 range 12 25 502 range 12 25
740 default 17 503 default 17
741 depends on PRINTK 504 depends on PRINTK
742 help 505 help
743 Select the minimal kernel log buffer 506 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
744 The final size is affected by LOG_CP 507 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
745 parameter, see below. Any higher siz 508 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
746 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 509 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
747 510
748 Examples: 511 Examples:
749 17 => 128 KB 512 17 => 128 KB
750 16 => 64 KB 513 16 => 64 KB
751 15 => 32 KB 514 15 => 32 KB
752 14 => 16 KB 515 14 => 16 KB
753 13 => 8 KB 516 13 => 8 KB
754 12 => 4 KB 517 12 => 4 KB
755 518
756 config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 519 config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
757 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contri 520 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
758 depends on SMP 521 depends on SMP
759 range 0 21 522 range 0 21
>> 523 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
760 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 524 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
761 default 12 <<
762 depends on PRINTK 525 depends on PRINTK
763 help 526 help
764 This option allows to increase the d 527 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
765 according to the number of CPUs. The 528 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
766 of each CPU as a power of 2. The use 529 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
767 lines however it might be much more 530 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
768 e.g. backtraces. 531 e.g. backtraces.
769 532
770 The increased size means that a new 533 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
771 the original static one is unused. I 534 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
772 with more CPUs. Therefore this value 535 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
773 contributions is greater than the ha 536 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
774 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. 537 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
775 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed !! 538 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
776 539
777 Also this option is ignored when "lo 540 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
778 used as it forces an exact (power of 541 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
779 542
780 The number of possible CPUs is used 543 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
781 hotplugging making the computation o 544 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
782 scenario while allowing a simple alg 545 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
783 546
784 Examples shift values and their mean 547 Examples shift values and their meaning:
785 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 548 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
786 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 549 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
787 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 550 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
788 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 551 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
789 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 552 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
790 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 553 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
791 554
792 config PRINTK_INDEX !! 555 config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
793 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interfac !! 556 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
794 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS !! 557 range 10 21
795 help !! 558 default 13
796 Add support for indexing of all prin !! 559 depends on PRINTK
797 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. !! 560 help
798 !! 561 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
799 This can be used as part of maintain !! 562 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
800 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing th !! 563 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
801 kernel, allowing detection of cases !! 564 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
802 changed or no longer present. !! 565 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
>> 566
>> 567 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
>> 568 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
>> 569 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
803 570
804 There is no additional runtime cost !! 571 Examples:
>> 572 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
>> 573 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
>> 574 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
>> 575 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
>> 576 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
>> 577 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
805 578
806 # 579 #
807 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock 580 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
808 # 581 #
809 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 582 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
810 bool 583 bool
811 584
812 config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 585 config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
813 bool 586 bool
814 587
815 menu "Scheduler features" <<
816 <<
817 config UCLAMP_TASK <<
818 bool "Enable utilization clamping for <<
819 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL <<
820 help <<
821 This feature enables the scheduler t <<
822 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks <<
823 <<
824 With this option, the user can speci <<
825 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tas <<
826 the maximum frequency a task should <<
827 defines the minimum frequency it sho <<
828 <<
829 Both min and max utilization clamp v <<
830 aiming at improving its frequency se <<
831 enforce or grant any specific bandwi <<
832 <<
833 If in doubt, say N. <<
834 <<
835 config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT <<
836 int "Number of supported utilization c <<
837 range 5 20 <<
838 default 5 <<
839 depends on UCLAMP_TASK <<
840 help <<
841 Defines the number of clamp buckets <<
842 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_ <<
843 number of clamp buckets the finer th <<
844 the precision of clamping aggregatio <<
845 <<
846 For example, with the minimum config <<
847 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilizati <<
848 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucke <<
849 effective value to 25%. <<
850 If a second 30% boosted task should <<
851 that task will be refcounted in the <<
852 it will boost the bucket clamp effec <<
853 The clamp effective value of a bucke <<
854 (20% in the example above) when ther <<
855 that bucket. <<
856 <<
857 An additional boost/capping margin c <<
858 example above the 25% task will be b <<
859 CPU. If that should be considered no <<
860 it's always possible to reduce the m <<
861 clamp buckets to trade off used memo <<
862 precision. <<
863 <<
864 If in doubt, use the default value. <<
865 <<
866 endmenu <<
867 <<
868 # 588 #
869 # For architectures that want to enable the su 589 # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
870 # balancing logic: 590 # balancing logic:
871 # 591 #
872 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 592 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
873 bool 593 bool
874 594
875 # 595 #
876 # For architectures that prefer to flush all T 596 # For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
877 # are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per 597 # are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
878 # must provide guarantees on what happens if a 598 # must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
879 # written after the unmap. Details are in mm/r 599 # written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
880 # should_defer_flush. The architecture should 600 # should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
881 # and the refill costs are offset by the savin 601 # and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
882 config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 602 config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
883 bool 603 bool
884 604
885 config CC_HAS_INT128 <<
886 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__ <<
887 <<
888 config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH <<
889 string <<
890 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if <<
891 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC <<
892 <<
893 # Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds glob <<
894 # It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bou <<
895 config GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS <<
896 def_bool y <<
897 <<
898 config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS <<
899 bool <<
900 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION <<
901 <<
902 # Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for G <<
903 config GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW <<
904 def_bool y <<
905 <<
906 config CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW <<
907 bool <<
908 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRIN <<
909 <<
910 config CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW <<
911 bool <<
912 default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRIN <<
913 <<
914 # 605 #
915 # For architectures that know their GCC __int1 606 # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
916 # 607 #
917 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 608 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
918 bool 609 bool
919 610
920 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to repre 611 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
921 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, su 612 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
922 # 613 #
923 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 614 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
924 bool 615 bool
925 616
926 config NUMA_BALANCING 617 config NUMA_BALANCING
927 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA sche 618 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
928 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCIN 619 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
929 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LO 620 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
930 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !! 621 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
931 help 622 help
932 This option adds support for automat 623 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
933 The mechanism is quite primitive and 624 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
934 it has references to the node the ta 625 it has references to the node the task is running on.
935 626
936 This system will be inactive on UMA 627 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
937 628
938 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 629 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
939 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware 630 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
940 default y 631 default y
941 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 632 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
942 help 633 help
943 If set, automatic NUMA balancing wil 634 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
944 machine. 635 machine.
945 636
946 config SLAB_OBJ_EXT <<
947 bool <<
948 <<
949 menuconfig CGROUPS 637 menuconfig CGROUPS
950 bool "Control Group support" 638 bool "Control Group support"
951 select KERNFS 639 select KERNFS
952 help 640 help
953 This option adds support for groupin 641 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
954 use with process control subsystems 642 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
955 controls or device isolation. 643 controls or device isolation.
956 See 644 See
957 - Documentation/scheduler/sche !! 645 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
958 - Documentation/admin-guide/cg !! 646 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
959 and 647 and resource control)
960 648
961 Say N if unsure. 649 Say N if unsure.
962 650
963 if CGROUPS 651 if CGROUPS
964 652
965 config PAGE_COUNTER 653 config PAGE_COUNTER
966 bool !! 654 bool
967 <<
968 config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS <<
969 bool "Favor dynamic modification laten <<
970 help <<
971 This option enables the "favordynmod <<
972 which reduces the latencies of dynam <<
973 as task migrations and controller on <<
974 hot path operations such as forks an <<
975 <<
976 Say N if unsure. <<
977 655
978 config MEMCG 656 config MEMCG
979 bool "Memory controller" 657 bool "Memory controller"
980 select PAGE_COUNTER 658 select PAGE_COUNTER
981 select EVENTFD 659 select EVENTFD
982 select SLAB_OBJ_EXT <<
983 help 660 help
984 Provides control over the memory foo 661 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
985 662
986 config MEMCG_V1 !! 663 config MEMCG_SWAP
987 bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controll !! 664 bool "Swap controller"
988 depends on MEMCG !! 665 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
989 default n !! 666 help
990 help !! 667 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
991 Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller w !! 668
992 cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is !! 669 config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
993 which haven't migrated to the new cg !! 670 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
994 do not have any such application the !! 671 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
995 this option disabled. !! 672 default y
996 !! 673 help
997 Please note that feature set of the !! 674 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
998 going to shrink due to deprecation p !! 675 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
999 controller are highly discouraged. !! 676 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
1000 !! 677 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
1001 Say N if unsure. !! 678 parameter should have this option unselected.
>> 679 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
>> 680 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
>> 681 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1002 682
1003 config BLK_CGROUP 683 config BLK_CGROUP
1004 bool "IO controller" 684 bool "IO controller"
1005 depends on BLOCK 685 depends on BLOCK
1006 default n 686 default n
1007 help !! 687 ---help---
1008 Generic block IO controller cgroup in 688 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1009 cgroup interface which should be used 689 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1010 policies. 690 policies.
1011 691
1012 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it t 692 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1013 control disk bandwidth allocation (pr 693 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1014 to such task groups. It is also used 694 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1015 block layer to implement upper limit 695 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1016 696
1017 This option only enables generic Bloc 697 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1018 One needs to also enable actual IO co 698 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1019 enabling proportional weight division 699 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1020 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabl !! 700 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1021 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 701 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1022 702
1023 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup- !! 703 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
>> 704
>> 705 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
>> 706 bool "IO controller debugging"
>> 707 depends on BLK_CGROUP
>> 708 default n
>> 709 ---help---
>> 710 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
>> 711 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1024 712
1025 config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 713 config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1026 bool 714 bool
1027 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 715 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1028 default y 716 default y
1029 717
1030 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 718 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1031 bool "CPU controller" 719 bool "CPU controller"
1032 default n 720 default n
1033 help 721 help
1034 This feature lets CPU scheduler rec 722 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1035 bandwidth allocation to such task g 723 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1036 tasks. 724 tasks.
1037 725
1038 if CGROUP_SCHED 726 if CGROUP_SCHED
1039 config GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT <<
1040 def_bool n <<
1041 <<
1042 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 727 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1043 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHE 728 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1044 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 729 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1045 select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT <<
1046 default CGROUP_SCHED 730 default CGROUP_SCHED
1047 731
1048 config CFS_BANDWIDTH 732 config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1049 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for 733 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1050 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 734 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1051 default n 735 default n
1052 help 736 help
1053 This option allows users to define 737 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1054 tasks running within the fair group 738 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1055 set are considered to be unconstrai 739 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1056 restriction. 740 restriction.
1057 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-b !! 741 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1058 742
1059 config RT_GROUP_SCHED 743 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1060 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/F 744 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
1061 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 745 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1062 default n 746 default n
1063 help 747 help
1064 This feature lets you explicitly al 748 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
1065 to task groups. If enabled, it will 749 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
1066 schedule realtime tasks for non-roo 750 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1067 realtime bandwidth for them. 751 realtime bandwidth for them.
1068 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-r !! 752 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1069 <<
1070 config EXT_GROUP_SCHED <<
1071 bool <<
1072 depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_ <<
1073 select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT <<
1074 default y <<
1075 753
1076 endif #CGROUP_SCHED 754 endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1077 755
1078 config SCHED_MM_CID <<
1079 def_bool y <<
1080 depends on SMP && RSEQ <<
1081 <<
1082 config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP <<
1083 bool "Utilization clamping per group <<
1084 depends on CGROUP_SCHED <<
1085 depends on UCLAMP_TASK <<
1086 default n <<
1087 help <<
1088 This feature enables the scheduler <<
1089 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks <<
1090 <<
1091 When this option is enabled, the us <<
1092 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for <<
1093 The max bandwidth allows to clamp t <<
1094 can use, while the min bandwidth al <<
1095 frequency a task will always use. <<
1096 <<
1097 When task group based utilization c <<
1098 specified task-specific clamp value <<
1099 specified clamp value. Both minimum <<
1100 be bigger than the corresponding cl <<
1101 <<
1102 If in doubt, say N. <<
1103 <<
1104 config CGROUP_PIDS 756 config CGROUP_PIDS
1105 bool "PIDs controller" 757 bool "PIDs controller"
1106 help 758 help
1107 Provides enforcement of process num 759 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1108 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more pr 760 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1109 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamen 761 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1110 is fairly trivial to reach PID exha 762 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1111 conservative kmemcg limit. As a res 763 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1112 system to halt without being limite 764 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
1113 PIDs controller is designed to stop 765 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1114 766
1115 It should be noted that organisatio 767 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
1116 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* b !! 768 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
1117 since the PIDs limit only affects a 769 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
1118 attach to a cgroup. 770 attach to a cgroup.
1119 771
1120 config CGROUP_RDMA 772 config CGROUP_RDMA
1121 bool "RDMA controller" 773 bool "RDMA controller"
1122 help 774 help
1123 Provides enforcement of RDMA resour 775 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1124 It is fairly easy for consumers to 776 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1125 can result into resource unavailabi 777 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1126 RDMA controller is designed to stop 778 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1127 Attaching processes with active RDM 779 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1128 hierarchy is allowed even if can cr 780 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1129 781
1130 config CGROUP_FREEZER 782 config CGROUP_FREEZER
1131 bool "Freezer controller" 783 bool "Freezer controller"
1132 help 784 help
1133 Provides a way to freeze and unfree 785 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1134 cgroup. 786 cgroup.
1135 787
1136 This option affects the ORIGINAL cg 788 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1137 controller includes important in-ke 789 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1138 790
1139 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 791 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1140 792
1141 config CGROUP_HUGETLB 793 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
1142 bool "HugeTLB controller" 794 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1143 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 795 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1144 select PAGE_COUNTER 796 select PAGE_COUNTER
1145 default n 797 default n
1146 help 798 help
1147 Provides a cgroup controller for Hu 799 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1148 When you enable this, you can put a 800 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1149 The limit is enforced during page f 801 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1150 support page reclaim, enforcing the 802 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1151 that, the application will get SIGB 803 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1152 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. Thi 804 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1153 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages i 805 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1154 control group is tracked in the thi 806 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1155 that we cannot use the controller w 807 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1156 808
1157 config CPUSETS 809 config CPUSETS
1158 bool "Cpuset controller" 810 bool "Cpuset controller"
1159 depends on SMP 811 depends on SMP
1160 help 812 help
1161 This option will let you create and 813 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1162 allow dynamically partitioning a sy 814 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1163 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to 815 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1164 This is primarily useful on large S 816 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1165 817
1166 Say N if unsure. 818 Say N if unsure.
1167 819
1168 config CPUSETS_V1 <<
1169 bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets contro <<
1170 depends on CPUSETS <<
1171 default n <<
1172 help <<
1173 Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller <<
1174 cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is <<
1175 which haven't migrated to the new c <<
1176 do not have any such application th <<
1177 this option disabled. <<
1178 <<
1179 Say N if unsure. <<
1180 <<
1181 config PROC_PID_CPUSET 820 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1182 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpus 821 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1183 depends on CPUSETS 822 depends on CPUSETS
1184 default y 823 default y
1185 824
1186 config CGROUP_DEVICE 825 config CGROUP_DEVICE
1187 bool "Device controller" 826 bool "Device controller"
1188 help 827 help
1189 Provides a cgroup controller implem 828 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1190 devices which a process in the cgro 829 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1191 830
1192 config CGROUP_CPUACCT 831 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1193 bool "Simple CPU accounting controlle 832 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1194 help 833 help
1195 Provides a simple controller for mo 834 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1196 total CPU consumed by the tasks in 835 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1197 836
1198 config CGROUP_PERF 837 config CGROUP_PERF
1199 bool "Perf controller" 838 bool "Perf controller"
1200 depends on PERF_EVENTS 839 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1201 help 840 help
1202 This option extends the perf per-cp 841 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1203 to threads which belong to the cgro 842 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1204 designated cpu. Or this can be use !! 843 designated cpu.
1205 so that it can monitor performance <<
1206 844
1207 Say N if unsure. 845 Say N if unsure.
1208 846
1209 config CGROUP_BPF 847 config CGROUP_BPF
1210 bool "Support for eBPF programs attac 848 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1211 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 849 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1212 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 850 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
1213 help 851 help
1214 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a 852 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1215 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 853 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1216 854
1217 In which context these programs are 855 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1218 of attachment. For instance, progra 856 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1219 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be exe 857 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1220 inet sockets. 858 inet sockets.
1221 859
1222 config CGROUP_MISC <<
1223 bool "Misc resource controller" <<
1224 default n <<
1225 help <<
1226 Provides a controller for miscellan <<
1227 <<
1228 Miscellaneous scalar resources are <<
1229 which cannot be abstracted like the <<
1230 tracks and limits the miscellaneous <<
1231 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. <<
1232 <<
1233 For more information, please check <<
1234 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v <<
1235 <<
1236 config CGROUP_DEBUG 860 config CGROUP_DEBUG
1237 bool "Debug controller" 861 bool "Debug controller"
1238 default n 862 default n
1239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 863 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1240 help 864 help
1241 This option enables a simple contro 865 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1242 debugging information about the cgr 866 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
1243 controller is for control cgroup de 867 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1244 interfaces are not stable. 868 interfaces are not stable.
1245 869
1246 Say N. 870 Say N.
1247 871
1248 config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 872 config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
1249 bool 873 bool
1250 default n 874 default n
1251 875
1252 endif # CGROUPS 876 endif # CGROUPS
1253 877
1254 menuconfig NAMESPACES 878 menuconfig NAMESPACES
1255 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 879 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
1256 depends on MULTIUSER 880 depends on MULTIUSER
1257 default !EXPERT 881 default !EXPERT
1258 help 882 help
1259 Provides the way to make tasks work 883 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1260 the same id. For example same IPC i 884 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1261 or same user id or pid may refer to 885 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1262 different namespaces. 886 different namespaces.
1263 887
1264 if NAMESPACES 888 if NAMESPACES
1265 889
1266 config UTS_NS 890 config UTS_NS
1267 bool "UTS namespace" 891 bool "UTS namespace"
1268 default y 892 default y
1269 help 893 help
1270 In this namespace tasks see differe 894 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1271 uname() system call 895 uname() system call
1272 896
1273 config TIME_NS <<
1274 bool "TIME namespace" <<
1275 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS <<
1276 default y <<
1277 help <<
1278 In this namespace boottime and mono <<
1279 The time will keep going with the s <<
1280 <<
1281 config IPC_NS 897 config IPC_NS
1282 bool "IPC namespace" 898 bool "IPC namespace"
1283 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 899 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
1284 default y 900 default y
1285 help 901 help
1286 In this namespace tasks work with I 902 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1287 different IPC objects in different 903 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1288 904
1289 config USER_NS 905 config USER_NS
1290 bool "User namespace" 906 bool "User namespace"
1291 default n 907 default n
1292 help 908 help
1293 This allows containers, i.e. vserve 909 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1294 to provide different user info for 910 to provide different user info for different servers.
1295 911
1296 When user namespaces are enabled in 912 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1297 recommended that the MEMCG option a 913 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1298 user-space use the memory control g 914 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1299 of memory a memory unprivileged use 915 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1300 916
1301 If unsure, say N. 917 If unsure, say N.
1302 918
1303 config PID_NS 919 config PID_NS
1304 bool "PID Namespaces" 920 bool "PID Namespaces"
1305 default y 921 default y
1306 help 922 help
1307 Support process id namespaces. Thi 923 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
1308 processes with the same pid as long 924 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
1309 pid namespaces. This is a building 925 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1310 926
1311 config NET_NS 927 config NET_NS
1312 bool "Network namespace" 928 bool "Network namespace"
1313 depends on NET 929 depends on NET
1314 default y 930 default y
1315 help 931 help
1316 Allow user space to create what app 932 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1317 of the network stack. 933 of the network stack.
1318 934
1319 endif # NAMESPACES 935 endif # NAMESPACES
1320 936
1321 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE <<
1322 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" <<
1323 depends on PROC_FS <<
1324 select PROC_CHILDREN <<
1325 select KCMP <<
1326 default n <<
1327 help <<
1328 Enables additional kernel features <<
1329 In particular it adds auxiliary prc <<
1330 data and heap segment sizes, and a <<
1331 entries. <<
1332 <<
1333 If unsure, say N here. <<
1334 <<
1335 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 937 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1336 bool "Automatic process group schedul 938 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1337 select CGROUPS 939 select CGROUPS
1338 select CGROUP_SCHED 940 select CGROUP_SCHED
1339 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 941 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1340 help 942 help
1341 This option optimizes the scheduler 943 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1342 automatically creating and populati 944 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1343 of workloads isolates aggressive CP 945 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1344 desktop applications. Task group a 946 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1345 upon task session. 947 upon task session.
1346 948
>> 949 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
>> 950 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
>> 951 depends on SYSFS
>> 952 default n
>> 953 help
>> 954 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
>> 955 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
>> 956 /sys/block/.
>> 957
>> 958 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
>> 959 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
>> 960
>> 961 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
>> 962 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
>> 963 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
>> 964
>> 965 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
>> 966 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
>> 967 option enabled.
>> 968
>> 969 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
>> 970 need to say Y here.
>> 971
>> 972 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
>> 973 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
>> 974 default n
>> 975 depends on SYSFS
>> 976 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
>> 977 help
>> 978 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
>> 979
>> 980 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
>> 981 option.
>> 982
>> 983 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
>> 984 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
>> 985 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
>> 986
1347 config RELAY 987 config RELAY
1348 bool "Kernel->user space relay suppor 988 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1349 select IRQ_WORK 989 select IRQ_WORK
1350 help 990 help
1351 This option enables support for rel 991 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1352 certain file systems (such as debug 992 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1353 It is designed to provide an effici 993 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1354 facilities to relay large amounts o 994 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1355 user space. 995 user space.
1356 996
1357 If unsure, say N. 997 If unsure, say N.
1358 998
1359 config BLK_DEV_INITRD 999 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1360 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM 1000 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
>> 1001 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1361 help 1002 help
1362 The initial RAM filesystem is a ram 1003 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1363 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and t 1004 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1364 before the normal boot procedure. I 1005 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1365 load modules needed to mount the "r 1006 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1366 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin- 1007 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1367 1008
1368 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) i 1009 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1369 also enables initial RAM disk (init 1010 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1370 15 Kbytes (more on some other archi 1011 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1371 1012
1372 If unsure say Y. 1013 If unsure say Y.
1373 1014
1374 if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1015 if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1375 1016
1376 source "usr/Kconfig" 1017 source "usr/Kconfig"
1377 1018
1378 endif 1019 endif
1379 1020
1380 config BOOT_CONFIG <<
1381 bool "Boot config support" <<
1382 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG <<
1383 help <<
1384 Extra boot config allows system adm <<
1385 complemental extension of kernel cm <<
1386 The boot config file must be attach <<
1387 with checksum, size and magic word. <<
1388 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide <<
1389 <<
1390 If unsure, say Y. <<
1391 <<
1392 config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE <<
1393 bool "Force unconditional bootconfig <<
1394 depends on BOOT_CONFIG <<
1395 default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED <<
1396 help <<
1397 With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_ <<
1398 out even when the "bootconfig" kern <<
1399 In fact, with this Kconfig option s <<
1400 make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CON <<
1401 parameters. <<
1402 <<
1403 If unsure, say N. <<
1404 <<
1405 config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED <<
1406 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the ke <<
1407 depends on BOOT_CONFIG <<
1408 help <<
1409 Embed a bootconfig file given by BO <<
1410 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig fil <<
1411 image. But if the system doesn't su <<
1412 help you by embedding a bootconfig <<
1413 <<
1414 If unsure, say N. <<
1415 <<
1416 config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE <<
1417 string "Embedded bootconfig file path <<
1418 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED <<
1419 help <<
1420 Specify a bootconfig file which wil <<
1421 This bootconfig will be used if the <<
1422 bootconfig in the initrd. <<
1423 <<
1424 config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME <<
1425 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in <<
1426 default y <<
1427 help <<
1428 Each entry in an initramfs cpio arc <<
1429 enabled, extracted cpio items take <<
1430 setting deferred until after creati <<
1431 <<
1432 If unsure, say Y. <<
1433 <<
1434 choice 1021 choice
1435 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1022 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1436 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1023 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1437 1024
1438 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1025 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1439 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" !! 1026 bool "Optimize for performance"
1440 help 1027 help
1441 This is the default optimization le 1028 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1442 with the "-O2" compiler flag for be 1029 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1443 helpful compile-time warnings. 1030 helpful compile-time warnings.
1444 1031
1445 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1032 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1446 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" !! 1033 bool "Optimize for size"
1447 help 1034 help
1448 Choosing this option will pass "-Os !! 1035 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1449 in a smaller kernel. !! 1036 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
>> 1037
>> 1038 If unsure, say N.
1450 1039
1451 endchoice 1040 endchoice
1452 1041
1453 config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION !! 1042 config SYSCTL
1454 bool 1043 bool
1455 help <<
1456 This requires that the arch annotat <<
1457 its external entry points from bein <<
1458 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, a <<
1459 output sections. Care must be taken <<
1460 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typi <<
1461 is used to distinguish them from la <<
1462 <<
1463 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION <<
1464 bool "Dead code and data elimination <<
1465 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELI <<
1466 depends on EXPERT <<
1467 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sec <<
1468 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) <<
1469 help <<
1470 Enable this if you want to do dead <<
1471 the linker by compiling with -ffunc <<
1472 and linking with --gc-sections. <<
1473 <<
1474 This can reduce on disk and in-memo <<
1475 code and static data, particularly <<
1476 on small systems. This has the poss <<
1477 silently broken kernel if the requi <<
1478 present. This option is not well te <<
1479 own risk. <<
1480 1044
1481 config LD_ORPHAN_WARN !! 1045 config ANON_INODES
1482 def_bool y <<
1483 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN <<
1484 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handl <<
1485 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handl <<
1486 <<
1487 config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL <<
1488 string <<
1489 depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN <<
1490 default "error" if WERROR <<
1491 default "warn" <<
1492 <<
1493 config SYSCTL <<
1494 bool 1046 bool
1495 1047
1496 config HAVE_UID16 1048 config HAVE_UID16
1497 bool 1049 bool
1498 1050
1499 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1051 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1500 bool 1052 bool
1501 help 1053 help
1502 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/ 1054 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1503 1055
1504 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1056 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1505 bool 1057 bool
1506 help 1058 help
1507 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel 1059 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1508 Allows arch to define/use @no_unali 1060 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1509 about unaligned access emulation go 1061 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1510 1062
1511 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1063 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1512 bool 1064 bool
1513 help 1065 help
1514 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel 1066 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1515 Allows arches to define/use @unalig 1067 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1516 the unaligned access emulation. 1068 the unaligned access emulation.
1517 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c 1069 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1518 1070
1519 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1071 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1520 bool 1072 bool
1521 1073
>> 1074 # interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
>> 1075 config BPF
>> 1076 bool
>> 1077
1522 menuconfig EXPERT 1078 menuconfig EXPERT
1523 bool "Configure standard kernel featu 1079 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1524 # Unhide debug options, to make the o 1080 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1525 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1081 select DEBUG_KERNEL
1526 help 1082 help
1527 This option allows certain base ker 1083 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1528 to be disabled or tweaked. This is !! 1084 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1529 environments which can tolerate a " !! 1085 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1530 Only use this if you really know wh !! 1086 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1531 1087
1532 config UID16 1088 config UID16
1533 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" 1089 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1534 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1090 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1535 default y 1091 default y
1536 help 1092 help
1537 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID 1093 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1538 1094
1539 config MULTIUSER 1095 config MULTIUSER
1540 bool "Multiple users, groups and capa 1096 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1541 default y 1097 default y
1542 help 1098 help
1543 This option enables support for non 1099 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1544 capabilities. 1100 capabilities.
1545 1101
1546 If you say N here, all processes wi 1102 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1547 possible capabilities. Saying N he 1103 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1548 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, 1104 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1549 setgid, and capset. 1105 setgid, and capset.
1550 1106
1551 If unsure, say Y here. 1107 If unsure, say Y here.
1552 1108
1553 config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1109 config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1554 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls supp 1110 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1555 default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS !! 1111 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1556 help !! 1112 ---help---
1557 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are o 1113 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1558 no longer supported in libc but sti 1114 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1559 architectures. 1115 architectures.
1560 1116
1561 If unsure, leave the default option 1117 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1562 1118
1563 config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1119 config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1564 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPER 1120 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1565 default y 1121 default y
1566 help !! 1122 ---help---
1567 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system cal 1123 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1568 Note that disabling this option is 1124 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1569 compatibility with some systems. 1125 compatibility with some systems.
1570 1126
1571 If unsure say Y here. 1127 If unsure say Y here.
1572 1128
>> 1129 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
>> 1130 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
>> 1131 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
>> 1132 default n
>> 1133 select SYSCTL
>> 1134 ---help---
>> 1135 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
>> 1136 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
>> 1137 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
>> 1138 information.
>> 1139
>> 1140 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
>> 1141 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
>> 1142 making your kernel marginally smaller.
>> 1143
>> 1144 If unsure say N here.
>> 1145
1573 config FHANDLE 1146 config FHANDLE
1574 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EX 1147 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1575 select EXPORTFS 1148 select EXPORTFS
1576 default y 1149 default y
1577 help 1150 help
1578 If you say Y here, a user level pro 1151 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1579 file names to handle and then later 1152 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1580 different file system operations. T 1153 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1581 userspace file servers, which now t 1154 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1582 of names. The handle would remain t 1155 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1583 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle 1156 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1584 syscalls. 1157 syscalls.
1585 1158
1586 config POSIX_TIMERS 1159 config POSIX_TIMERS
1587 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPER 1160 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1588 default y 1161 default y
1589 help 1162 help
1590 This includes native support for PO 1163 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1591 Some embedded systems have no use f 1164 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1592 can be configured out to reduce the 1165 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1593 1166
1594 When this option is disabled, the f 1167 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1595 available: timer_create, timer_gett 1168 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1596 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_ 1169 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1597 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the 1170 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1598 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep sy 1171 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1599 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and 1172 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1600 1173
1601 If unsure say y. 1174 If unsure say y.
1602 1175
1603 config PRINTK 1176 config PRINTK
1604 default y 1177 default y
1605 bool "Enable support for printk" if E 1178 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1606 select IRQ_WORK 1179 select IRQ_WORK
1607 help 1180 help
1608 This option enables normal printk s 1181 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1609 eliminates most of the message stri 1182 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1610 and makes the kernel more or less s 1183 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1611 very difficult to diagnose system p 1184 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1612 strongly discouraged. 1185 strongly discouraged.
1613 1186
>> 1187 config PRINTK_NMI
>> 1188 def_bool y
>> 1189 depends on PRINTK
>> 1190 depends on HAVE_NMI
>> 1191
1614 config BUG 1192 config BUG
1615 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1193 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1616 default y 1194 default y
1617 help 1195 help
1618 Disabling this option eliminates su !! 1196 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1619 the size of your kernel image and p !! 1197 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1620 numerous fatal conditions. You shou !! 1198 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1621 option for embedded systems with no !! 1199 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1622 Just say Y. !! 1200 Just say Y.
1623 1201
1624 config ELF_CORE 1202 config ELF_CORE
1625 depends on COREDUMP 1203 depends on COREDUMP
1626 default y 1204 default y
1627 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPER 1205 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1628 help 1206 help
1629 Enable support for generating core 1207 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1630 1208
1631 1209
1632 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1210 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1633 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if E 1211 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1634 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1212 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1635 select I8253_LOCK 1213 select I8253_LOCK
1636 default y 1214 default y
1637 help 1215 help
1638 This option allows to disable the i !! 1216 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1639 support, saving some memory. !! 1217 support, saving some memory.
1640 1218
1641 config BASE_SMALL !! 1219 config BASE_FULL
1642 bool "Enable smaller-sized data struc !! 1220 default y
>> 1221 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1643 help 1222 help
1644 Enabling this option reduces the si !! 1223 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1645 kernel data structures. This saves 1224 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1646 but may reduce performance. 1225 but may reduce performance.
1647 1226
1648 config FUTEX 1227 config FUTEX
1649 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1228 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1650 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) <<
1651 default y 1229 default y
1652 imply RT_MUTEXES 1230 imply RT_MUTEXES
1653 help 1231 help
1654 Disabling this option will cause th 1232 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1655 support for "fast userspace mutexes 1233 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1656 run glibc-based applications correc 1234 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1657 1235
1658 config FUTEX_PI 1236 config FUTEX_PI
1659 bool 1237 bool
1660 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1238 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1661 default y 1239 default y
1662 1240
>> 1241 config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
>> 1242 bool
>> 1243 depends on FUTEX
>> 1244 help
>> 1245 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
>> 1246 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
>> 1247 checks.
>> 1248
1663 config EPOLL 1249 config EPOLL
1664 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EX 1250 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1665 default y 1251 default y
>> 1252 select ANON_INODES
1666 help 1253 help
1667 Disabling this option will cause th 1254 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1668 support for epoll family of system 1255 support for epoll family of system calls.
1669 1256
1670 config SIGNALFD 1257 config SIGNALFD
1671 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" 1258 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
>> 1259 select ANON_INODES
1672 default y 1260 default y
1673 help 1261 help
1674 Enable the signalfd() system call t 1262 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1675 on a file descriptor. 1263 on a file descriptor.
1676 1264
1677 If unsure, say Y. 1265 If unsure, say Y.
1678 1266
1679 config TIMERFD 1267 config TIMERFD
1680 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" i 1268 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
>> 1269 select ANON_INODES
1681 default y 1270 default y
1682 help 1271 help
1683 Enable the timerfd() system call th 1272 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1684 events on a file descriptor. 1273 events on a file descriptor.
1685 1274
1686 If unsure, say Y. 1275 If unsure, say Y.
1687 1276
1688 config EVENTFD 1277 config EVENTFD
1689 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" i 1278 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
>> 1279 select ANON_INODES
1690 default y 1280 default y
1691 help 1281 help
1692 Enable the eventfd() system call th 1282 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1693 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or u 1283 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1694 1284
1695 If unsure, say Y. 1285 If unsure, say Y.
1696 1286
1697 config SHMEM 1287 config SHMEM
1698 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if E 1288 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1699 default y 1289 default y
1700 depends on MMU 1290 depends on MMU
1701 help 1291 help
1702 The shmem is an internal filesystem 1292 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1703 It is backed by swap and manages re 1293 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1704 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is e 1294 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1705 option replaces shmem and tmpfs wit 1295 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1706 which may be appropriate on small s 1296 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1707 1297
1708 config AIO 1298 config AIO
1709 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1299 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1710 default y 1300 default y
1711 help 1301 help
1712 This option enables POSIX asynchron 1302 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1713 by some high performance threaded a 1303 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1714 this option saves about 7k. 1304 this option saves about 7k.
1715 1305
1716 config IO_URING <<
1717 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXP <<
1718 select IO_WQ <<
1719 default y <<
1720 help <<
1721 This option enables support for the <<
1722 applications to submit and complete <<
1723 completion rings that are shared be <<
1724 <<
1725 config GCOV_PROFILE_URING <<
1726 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io <<
1727 depends on GCOV_KERNEL <<
1728 help <<
1729 Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uri <<
1730 code coverage testing. <<
1731 <<
1732 If unsure, say N. <<
1733 <<
1734 Note that this will have a negative <<
1735 the io_uring subsystem, hence this <<
1736 specific test purposes. <<
1737 <<
1738 config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1306 config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1739 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls 1307 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1740 default y 1308 default y
1741 help 1309 help
1742 This option enables the madvise and 1310 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1743 applications to advise the kernel a 1311 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1744 usage, improving performance. If bu 1312 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1745 applications use these syscalls, yo 1313 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1746 space. 1314 space.
1747 1315
1748 config MEMBARRIER 1316 config MEMBARRIER
1749 bool "Enable membarrier() system call 1317 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1750 default y 1318 default y
1751 help 1319 help
1752 Enable the membarrier() system call 1320 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1753 barriers across all running threads 1321 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1754 the cost of user-space memory barri 1322 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1755 pairs of memory barriers into pairs 1323 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1756 compiler barrier. 1324 compiler barrier.
1757 1325
1758 If unsure, say Y. 1326 If unsure, say Y.
1759 1327
1760 config KCMP !! 1328 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1761 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if E !! 1329 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1762 help !! 1330 select PROC_CHILDREN
1763 Enable the kernel resource comparis <<
1764 user-space with the ability to comp <<
1765 share a common resource, such as a <<
1766 memory space. <<
1767 <<
1768 If unsure, say N. <<
1769 <<
1770 config RSEQ <<
1771 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if E <<
1772 default y <<
1773 depends on HAVE_RSEQ <<
1774 select MEMBARRIER <<
1775 help <<
1776 Enable the restartable sequences sy <<
1777 user-space cache for the current CP <<
1778 speeds up getting the current CPU n <<
1779 as well as an ABI to speed up user- <<
1780 per-CPU data. <<
1781 <<
1782 If unsure, say Y. <<
1783 <<
1784 config DEBUG_RSEQ <<
1785 default n 1331 default n
1786 bool "Enable debugging of rseq() syst <<
1787 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL <<
1788 help <<
1789 Enable extra debugging checks for t <<
1790 <<
1791 If unsure, say N. <<
1792 <<
1793 config CACHESTAT_SYSCALL <<
1794 bool "Enable cachestat() system call" <<
1795 default y <<
1796 help 1332 help
1797 Enable the cachestat system call, w !! 1333 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1798 statistics of a file (number of cac !! 1334 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1799 pages marked for writeback, (recent !! 1335 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1800 !! 1336 entries.
1801 If unsure say Y here. <<
1802 1337
1803 config PC104 !! 1338 If unsure, say N here.
1804 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT <<
1805 help <<
1806 Expose PC/104 form factor device dr <<
1807 selection and configuration. Enable <<
1808 machine has a PC/104 bus. <<
1809 1339
1810 config KALLSYMS 1340 config KALLSYMS
1811 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ !! 1341 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1812 default y !! 1342 default y
1813 help !! 1343 help
1814 Say Y here to let the kernel print !! 1344 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1815 symbolic stack backtraces. This inc !! 1345 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1816 somewhat, as all symbols have to be !! 1346 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1817 <<
1818 config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST <<
1819 bool "Test the basic functions and pe <<
1820 depends on KALLSYMS <<
1821 default n <<
1822 help <<
1823 Test the basic functions and perfor <<
1824 kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calcu <<
1825 kallsyms compression algorithm for <<
1826 <<
1827 Start self-test automatically after <<
1828 "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to <<
1829 displayed in the last line, indicat <<
1830 1347
1831 config KALLSYMS_ALL 1348 config KALLSYMS_ALL
1832 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms 1349 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1833 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1834 help 1351 help
1835 Normally kallsyms only contains the !! 1352 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1836 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., !! 1353 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1837 sections). This is sufficient for m !! 1354 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1838 enable kernel live patching, or oth !! 1355 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1839 when a debugger is used) all symbol !! 1356 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1840 variables from the data sections, e !! 1357
1841 !! 1358 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1842 This option makes sure that all sym !! 1359 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1843 image (i.e., symbols from all secti !! 1360 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1844 size (depending on the kernel confi !! 1361 something like this).
1845 something like this). <<
1846 1362
1847 Say N unless you really need all sy !! 1363 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1848 1364
1849 config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1365 config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1850 bool 1366 bool
1851 depends on KALLSYMS 1367 depends on KALLSYMS
1852 default X86_64 && SMP 1368 default X86_64 && SMP
1853 1369
>> 1370 config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
>> 1371 bool
>> 1372 depends on KALLSYMS
>> 1373 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
>> 1374 help
>> 1375 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
>> 1376 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
>> 1377 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
>> 1378 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
>> 1379 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
>> 1380 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
>> 1381 address encountered in the image.
>> 1382
>> 1383 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
>> 1384 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
>> 1385 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
>> 1386 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
>> 1387
1854 # end of the "standard kernel features (exper 1388 # end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1855 1389
1856 config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS !! 1390 # syscall, maps, verifier
1857 bool !! 1391 config BPF_SYSCALL
>> 1392 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
>> 1393 select ANON_INODES
>> 1394 select BPF
>> 1395 default n
>> 1396 help
>> 1397 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
>> 1398 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1858 1399
1859 config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE !! 1400 config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1860 bool !! 1401 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
>> 1402 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
>> 1403 help
>> 1404 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
>> 1405 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
>> 1406
>> 1407 config USERFAULTFD
>> 1408 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
>> 1409 select ANON_INODES
>> 1410 depends on MMU
>> 1411 help
>> 1412 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
>> 1413 handle page faults in userland.
>> 1414
>> 1415 config EMBEDDED
>> 1416 bool "Embedded system"
>> 1417 option allnoconfig_y
>> 1418 select EXPERT
>> 1419 help
>> 1420 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
>> 1421 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
>> 1422 for configuration.
1861 1423
1862 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1424 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1863 bool 1425 bool
1864 help 1426 help
1865 See tools/perf/design.txt for detai 1427 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1866 1428
1867 config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS <<
1868 bool <<
1869 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS <<
1870 <<
1871 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1429 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1872 bool 1430 bool
1873 help 1431 help
1874 See tools/perf/design.txt for detai 1432 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1875 1433
>> 1434 config PC104
>> 1435 bool "PC/104 support"
>> 1436 help
>> 1437 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
>> 1438 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
>> 1439 machine has a PC/104 bus.
>> 1440
1876 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1441 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1877 1442
1878 config PERF_EVENTS 1443 config PERF_EVENTS
1879 bool "Kernel performance events and c 1444 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1880 default y if PROFILING 1445 default y if PROFILING
1881 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1446 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
>> 1447 select ANON_INODES
1882 select IRQ_WORK 1448 select IRQ_WORK
>> 1449 select SRCU
1883 help 1450 help
1884 Enable kernel support for various p 1451 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1885 by software and hardware. 1452 by software and hardware.
1886 1453
1887 Software events are supported eithe 1454 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1888 use of generic tracepoints. 1455 use of generic tracepoints.
1889 1456
1890 Most modern CPUs support performanc 1457 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1891 counter registers. These registers 1458 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1892 types of hw events: such as instruc 1459 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1893 suffered, or branches mis-predicted 1460 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1894 kernel or applications. These regis 1461 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1895 when a threshold number of events h 1462 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1896 used to profile the code that runs 1463 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1897 1464
1898 The Linux Performance Event subsyst 1465 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1899 these software and hardware event c 1466 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1900 system call and used by the "perf" 1467 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1901 provides per task and per CPU count 1468 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1902 capabilities on top of those. 1469 capabilities on top of those.
1903 1470
1904 Say Y if unsure. 1471 Say Y if unsure.
1905 1472
1906 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1473 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1907 default n 1474 default n
1908 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf 1475 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1909 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNE 1476 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1910 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1477 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1911 help 1478 help
1912 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mma !! 1479 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1913 1480
1914 Mostly useful for debugging the vma !! 1481 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1915 that don't require it. !! 1482 that don't require it.
1916 1483
1917 Say N if unsure. !! 1484 Say N if unsure.
1918 1485
1919 endmenu 1486 endmenu
1920 1487
>> 1488 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
>> 1489 default y
>> 1490 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
>> 1491 help
>> 1492 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
>> 1493 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
>> 1494 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
>> 1495 if VM event counters are disabled.
>> 1496
>> 1497 config SLUB_DEBUG
>> 1498 default y
>> 1499 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
>> 1500 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
>> 1501 help
>> 1502 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
>> 1503 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
>> 1504 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
>> 1505 no support for cache validation etc.
>> 1506
>> 1507 config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
>> 1508 default n
>> 1509 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
>> 1510 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
>> 1511 help
>> 1512 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
>> 1513 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
>> 1514 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
>> 1515 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
>> 1516 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
>> 1517 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
>> 1518 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
>> 1519 config option determines the parameter's default value.
>> 1520
>> 1521 config COMPAT_BRK
>> 1522 bool "Disable heap randomization"
>> 1523 default y
>> 1524 help
>> 1525 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
>> 1526 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
>> 1527 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
>> 1528 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
>> 1529 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
>> 1530
>> 1531 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
>> 1532
>> 1533 choice
>> 1534 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
>> 1535 default SLUB
>> 1536 help
>> 1537 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
>> 1538
>> 1539 config SLAB
>> 1540 bool "SLAB"
>> 1541 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
>> 1542 help
>> 1543 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
>> 1544 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
>> 1545 per cpu and per node queues.
>> 1546
>> 1547 config SLUB
>> 1548 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
>> 1549 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
>> 1550 help
>> 1551 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
>> 1552 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
>> 1553 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
>> 1554 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
>> 1555 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
>> 1556 a slab allocator.
>> 1557
>> 1558 config SLOB
>> 1559 depends on EXPERT
>> 1560 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
>> 1561 help
>> 1562 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
>> 1563 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
>> 1564 does not perform as well on large systems.
>> 1565
>> 1566 endchoice
>> 1567
>> 1568 config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
>> 1569 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
>> 1570 default y
>> 1571 help
>> 1572 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
>> 1573 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
>> 1574 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
>> 1575 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
>> 1576 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
>> 1577 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
>> 1578 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
>> 1579 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
>> 1580 command line.
>> 1581
>> 1582 config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
>> 1583 default n
>> 1584 depends on SLAB || SLUB
>> 1585 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
>> 1586 help
>> 1587 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
>> 1588 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
>> 1589 allocator against heap overflows.
>> 1590
>> 1591 config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
>> 1592 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
>> 1593 depends on SLUB
>> 1594 help
>> 1595 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
>> 1596 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
>> 1597 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
>> 1598 freelist exploit methods.
>> 1599
>> 1600 config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
>> 1601 default y
>> 1602 depends on SLUB && SMP
>> 1603 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
>> 1604 help
>> 1605 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
>> 1606 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
>> 1607 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
>> 1608 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
>> 1609 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
>> 1610
>> 1611 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
>> 1612 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
>> 1613 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
>> 1614 default n
>> 1615 help
>> 1616 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
>> 1617 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
>> 1618 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
>> 1619 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
>> 1620 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
>> 1621 then the flag will be ignored.
>> 1622
>> 1623 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
>> 1624 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
>> 1625
>> 1626 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
>> 1627 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
>> 1628 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
>> 1629 it is normally safe to say Y here.
>> 1630
>> 1631 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
>> 1632
1921 config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1633 config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1922 def_bool n 1634 def_bool n
1923 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1635 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1924 select KEYS 1636 select KEYS
1925 select CRYPTO 1637 select CRYPTO
1926 select CRYPTO_RSA 1638 select CRYPTO_RSA
1927 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1639 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1928 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1640 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1929 select ASN1 1641 select ASN1
1930 select OID_REGISTRY 1642 select OID_REGISTRY
1931 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1643 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1932 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1644 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
1933 help 1645 help
1934 Provide PKCS#7 message verification 1646 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1935 trusted keyring to provide public k 1647 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1936 module verification, kexec image ve 1648 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1937 verification. 1649 verification.
1938 1650
1939 config PROFILING 1651 config PROFILING
1940 bool "Profiling support" 1652 bool "Profiling support"
1941 help 1653 help
1942 Say Y here to enable the extended p 1654 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1943 by profilers. !! 1655 by profilers such as OProfile.
1944 <<
1945 config RUST <<
1946 bool "Rust support" <<
1947 depends on HAVE_RUST <<
1948 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE <<
1949 depends on !MODVERSIONS <<
1950 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT <<
1951 depends on !RANDSTRUCT <<
1952 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_ <<
1953 depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICA <<
1954 select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS i <<
1955 depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VER <<
1956 depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS <<
1957 depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KA <<
1958 help <<
1959 Enables Rust support in the kernel. <<
1960 <<
1961 This allows other Rust-related opti <<
1962 to be selected. <<
1963 <<
1964 It is also required to be able to l <<
1965 written in Rust. <<
1966 <<
1967 See Documentation/rust/ for more in <<
1968 <<
1969 If unsure, say N. <<
1970 <<
1971 config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT <<
1972 string <<
1973 depends on RUST <<
1974 default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" <<
1975 help <<
1976 See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. <<
1977 <<
1978 config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT <<
1979 string <<
1980 depends on RUST <<
1981 # The dummy parameter `workaround-for <<
1982 # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust- <<
1983 # the minimum version is upgraded pas <<
1984 default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version <<
1985 1656
1986 # 1657 #
1987 # Place an empty function call at each tracep 1658 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1988 # dynamically changed for a probe function. 1659 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1989 # 1660 #
1990 config TRACEPOINTS 1661 config TRACEPOINTS
1991 bool 1662 bool
1992 1663
1993 source "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" !! 1664 source "arch/Kconfig"
1994 1665
1995 endmenu # General setup 1666 endmenu # General setup
1996 1667
1997 source "arch/Kconfig" !! 1668 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
>> 1669 bool
>> 1670 default n
1998 1671
1999 config RT_MUTEXES 1672 config RT_MUTEXES
2000 bool 1673 bool
2001 default y if PREEMPT_RT <<
2002 1674
2003 config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT !! 1675 config BASE_SMALL
2004 def_bool n !! 1676 int
>> 1677 default 0 if BASE_FULL
>> 1678 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
>> 1679
>> 1680 menuconfig MODULES
>> 1681 bool "Enable loadable module support"
>> 1682 option modules
>> 1683 help
>> 1684 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
>> 1685 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
>> 1686 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
>> 1687 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
>> 1688 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
>> 1689 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
>> 1690 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
>> 1691 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
>> 1692 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
>> 1693
>> 1694 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
>> 1695 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
>> 1696 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
>> 1697 this).
>> 1698
>> 1699 If unsure, say Y.
>> 1700
>> 1701 if MODULES
>> 1702
>> 1703 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
>> 1704 bool "Forced module loading"
>> 1705 default n
>> 1706 help
>> 1707 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
>> 1708 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
>> 1709 is usually a really bad idea.
>> 1710
>> 1711 config MODULE_UNLOAD
>> 1712 bool "Module unloading"
>> 1713 help
>> 1714 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
>> 1715 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
>> 1716 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
>> 1717 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
>> 1718
>> 1719 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
>> 1720 bool "Forced module unloading"
>> 1721 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
>> 1722 help
>> 1723 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
>> 1724 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
>> 1725 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
>> 1726 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
>> 1727 If unsure, say N.
>> 1728
>> 1729 config MODVERSIONS
>> 1730 bool "Module versioning support"
>> 1731 help
>> 1732 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
>> 1733 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
>> 1734 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
>> 1735 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
>> 1736 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
>> 1737 unsure, say N.
>> 1738
>> 1739 config MODULE_REL_CRCS
>> 1740 bool
>> 1741 depends on MODVERSIONS
>> 1742
>> 1743 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
>> 1744 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
>> 1745 help
>> 1746 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
>> 1747 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
>> 1748 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
>> 1749 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
>> 1750 others sometimes change the module source without updating
>> 1751 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
>> 1752 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
>> 1753
>> 1754 config MODULE_SIG
>> 1755 bool "Module signature verification"
>> 1756 depends on MODULES
2005 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1757 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
>> 1758 help
>> 1759 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
>> 1760 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
>> 1761 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
>> 1762
>> 1763 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
>> 1764 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
>> 1765 library.
>> 1766
>> 1767 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
>> 1768 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
>> 1769 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
>> 1770 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
>> 1771
>> 1772 config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
>> 1773 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
>> 1774 depends on MODULE_SIG
>> 1775 help
>> 1776 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
>> 1777 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
>> 1778
>> 1779 config MODULE_SIG_ALL
>> 1780 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
>> 1781 default y
>> 1782 depends on MODULE_SIG
>> 1783 help
>> 1784 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
>> 1785 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
>> 1786
>> 1787 comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
>> 1788 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
>> 1789
>> 1790 choice
>> 1791 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
>> 1792 depends on MODULE_SIG
>> 1793 help
>> 1794 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
>> 1795 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
>> 1796 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
>> 1797 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
>> 1798 the signature on that module.
>> 1799
>> 1800 config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
>> 1801 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
>> 1802 select CRYPTO_SHA1
>> 1803
>> 1804 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
>> 1805 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
>> 1806 select CRYPTO_SHA256
>> 1807
>> 1808 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
>> 1809 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
>> 1810 select CRYPTO_SHA256
>> 1811
>> 1812 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
>> 1813 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
>> 1814 select CRYPTO_SHA512
>> 1815
>> 1816 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
>> 1817 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
>> 1818 select CRYPTO_SHA512
>> 1819
>> 1820 endchoice
>> 1821
>> 1822 config MODULE_SIG_HASH
>> 1823 string
>> 1824 depends on MODULE_SIG
>> 1825 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
>> 1826 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
>> 1827 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
>> 1828 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
>> 1829 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
>> 1830
>> 1831 config MODULE_COMPRESS
>> 1832 bool "Compress modules on installation"
>> 1833 depends on MODULES
>> 1834 help
>> 1835
>> 1836 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
>> 1837 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
>> 1838
>> 1839 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
>> 1840
>> 1841 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
>> 1842 compressed upon installation.
>> 1843
>> 1844 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
>> 1845 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
>> 1846
>> 1847 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2006 1848
2007 source "kernel/module/Kconfig" !! 1849 If in doubt, say N.
>> 1850
>> 1851 choice
>> 1852 prompt "Compression algorithm"
>> 1853 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
>> 1854 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
>> 1855 help
>> 1856 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
>> 1857 'make modules_install'.
>> 1858
>> 1859 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
>> 1860
>> 1861 config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
>> 1862 bool "GZIP"
>> 1863
>> 1864 config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
>> 1865 bool "XZ"
>> 1866
>> 1867 endchoice
>> 1868
>> 1869 config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
>> 1870 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
>> 1871 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
>> 1872 help
>> 1873 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
>> 1874 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
>> 1875 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
>> 1876 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
>> 1877
>> 1878 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
>> 1879 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
>> 1880 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
>> 1881 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
>> 1882
>> 1883 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
>> 1884
>> 1885 endif # MODULES
>> 1886
>> 1887 config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
>> 1888 def_bool y
>> 1889 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2008 1890
2009 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1891 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2010 bool 1892 bool
2011 help 1893 help
2012 Back when each arch used to define 1894 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2013 cpu_possible_mask, some of them cho 1895 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
2014 with all 1s, and others with all 0s 1896 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2015 it was better to provide this optio 1897 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2016 and have several arch maintainers p 1898 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
2017 1899
2018 source "block/Kconfig" 1900 source "block/Kconfig"
2019 1901
2020 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1902 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2021 bool 1903 bool
2022 1904
2023 config PADATA 1905 config PADATA
2024 depends on SMP 1906 depends on SMP
2025 bool 1907 bool
2026 1908
2027 config ASN1 1909 config ASN1
2028 tristate 1910 tristate
2029 help 1911 help
2030 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compil 1912 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2031 that can be interpreted by the ASN. 1913 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2032 inform it as to what tags are to be 1914 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2033 functions to call on what tags. 1915 functions to call on what tags.
2034 1916
2035 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1917 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2036 <<
2037 config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE <<
2038 bool <<
2039 <<
2040 config ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD <<
2041 bool <<
2042 <<
2043 config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE <<
2044 bool <<
2045 <<
2046 # It may be useful for an architecture to ove <<
2047 # SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() ma <<
2048 # and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h <<
2049 # different calling convention for syscalls. <<
2050 # macros for not-implemented syscalls in kern <<
2051 # kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overri <<
2052 # <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. <<
2053 config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER <<
2054 def_bool n <<
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