1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config DEFCONFIG_LIST 3 string 4 depends on !UML 5 option defconfig_list 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7 default "/etc/kernel-config" 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9 default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10 11config CC_VERSION_TEXT 12 string 13 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 14 help 15 This is used in unclear ways: 16 17 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 18 The 'default' property references the environment variable, 19 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 20 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 21 22 - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated 23 include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so 24 fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated 25 dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it 26 and then every file will be rebuilt. 27 28config CC_IS_GCC 29 def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 30 31config GCC_VERSION 32 int 33 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 34 default 0 35 36config LD_VERSION 37 int 38 default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 39 40config CC_IS_CLANG 41 def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 42 43config LD_IS_LLD 44 def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 45 46config CLANG_VERSION 47 int 48 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 49 50config LLD_VERSION 51 int 52 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) 53 54config CC_CAN_LINK 55 bool 56 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 57 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 58 59config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 60 bool 61 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 62 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 63 64config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 65 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 66 67config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 68 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 69 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 70 71config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 72 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 73 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 74 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 75 76config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 77 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 78 79config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 80 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 81 82config CONSTRUCTORS 83 bool 84 depends on !UML 85 86config IRQ_WORK 87 bool 88 89config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 90 bool 91 92config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 93 bool 94 help 95 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 96 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 97 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 98 99 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 100 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 101 102menu "General setup" 103 104config BROKEN 105 bool 106 107config BROKEN_ON_SMP 108 bool 109 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 110 default y 111 112config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 113 int 114 default 32 if !UML 115 default 128 if UML 116 help 117 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 118 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 119 120config COMPILE_TEST 121 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 122 depends on HAS_IOMEM 123 help 124 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 125 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 126 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 127 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 128 drivers to compile-test them. 129 130 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 131 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 132 drivers to be distributed. 133 134config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 135 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 136 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 137 help 138 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 139 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 140 141 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 142 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 143 144config LOCALVERSION 145 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 146 help 147 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 148 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 149 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 150 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 151 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 152 be a maximum of 64 characters. 153 154config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 155 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 156 default y 157 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 158 help 159 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 160 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 161 top of tree revision. 162 163 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 164 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 165 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 166 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 167 168 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 169 by running the command: 170 171 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 172 173 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 174 175config BUILD_SALT 176 string "Build ID Salt" 177 default "" 178 help 179 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 180 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 181 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 182 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 183 184config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 185 bool 186 187config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 188 bool 189 190config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 191 bool 192 193config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 194 bool 195 196config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 197 bool 198 199config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 200 bool 201 202config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 203 bool 204 205config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 206 bool 207 208choice 209 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 210 default KERNEL_GZIP 211 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 212 help 213 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 214 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 215 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 216 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 217 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 218 219 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 220 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 221 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 222 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 223 224 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 225 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 226 size matters less. 227 228 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 229 230config KERNEL_GZIP 231 bool "Gzip" 232 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 233 help 234 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 235 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 236 237config KERNEL_BZIP2 238 bool "Bzip2" 239 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 240 help 241 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 242 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 243 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 244 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 245 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 246 247config KERNEL_LZMA 248 bool "LZMA" 249 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 250 help 251 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 252 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 253 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 254 255config KERNEL_XZ 256 bool "XZ" 257 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 258 help 259 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 260 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 261 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 262 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 263 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 264 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 265 266 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 267 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 268 and LZO. Compression is slow. 269 270config KERNEL_LZO 271 bool "LZO" 272 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 273 help 274 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 275 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 276 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 277 278config KERNEL_LZ4 279 bool "LZ4" 280 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 281 help 282 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 283 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 284 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 285 286 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 287 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 288 faster than LZO. 289 290config KERNEL_ZSTD 291 bool "ZSTD" 292 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 293 help 294 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 295 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 296 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 297 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 298 line tool is required for compression. 299 300config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 301 bool "None" 302 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 303 help 304 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 305 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 306 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 307 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 308 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 309 310endchoice 311 312config DEFAULT_INIT 313 string "Default init path" 314 default "" 315 help 316 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 317 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 318 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 319 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 320 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 321 322config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 323 string "Default hostname" 324 default "(none)" 325 help 326 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 327 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 328 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 329 system more usable with less configuration. 330 331# 332# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 333# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 334# 335config ARCH_NO_SWAP 336 bool 337 338config SWAP 339 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 340 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 341 default y 342 help 343 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 344 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 345 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 346 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 347 348config SYSVIPC 349 bool "System V IPC" 350 help 351 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 352 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 353 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 354 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 355 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 356 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 357 you'll need to say Y here. 358 359 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 360 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 361 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 362 363config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 364 bool 365 depends on SYSVIPC 366 depends on SYSCTL 367 default y 368 369config POSIX_MQUEUE 370 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 371 depends on NET 372 help 373 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 374 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 375 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 376 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 377 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 378 379 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 380 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 381 operations on message queues. 382 383 If unsure, say Y. 384 385config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 386 bool 387 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 388 depends on SYSCTL 389 default y 390 391config WATCH_QUEUE 392 bool "General notification queue" 393 default n 394 help 395 396 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 397 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 398 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 399 notifications. 400 401 See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 402 403config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 404 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 405 depends on MMU 406 default y 407 help 408 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 409 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 410 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 411 See the man page for more details. 412 413config USELIB 414 bool "uselib syscall" 415 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 416 help 417 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 418 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 419 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 420 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 421 running glibc can safely disable this. 422 423config AUDIT 424 bool "Auditing support" 425 depends on NET 426 help 427 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 428 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 429 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 430 on architectures which support it. 431 432config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 433 bool 434 435config AUDITSYSCALL 436 def_bool y 437 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 438 select FSNOTIFY 439 440source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 441source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 442source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 443 444menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 445 446config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 447 bool 448 449choice 450 prompt "Cputime accounting" 451 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 452 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 453 454# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 455config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 456 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 457 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 458 help 459 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 460 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 461 granularity. 462 463 If unsure, say Y. 464 465config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 466 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 467 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 468 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 469 help 470 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 471 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 472 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 473 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 474 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 475 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 476 systems. 477 478config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 479 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 480 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 481 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 482 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 483 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 484 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 485 help 486 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 487 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 488 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 489 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 490 overhead. 491 492 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 493 dynticks subsystem development. 494 495 If unsure, say N. 496 497endchoice 498 499config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 500 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 501 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 502 help 503 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 504 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 505 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 506 small performance impact. 507 508 If in doubt, say N here. 509 510config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 511 def_bool y 512 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 513 depends on SMP 514 515config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 516 bool 517 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 518 default y if ARM64 519 depends on SMP 520 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 521 help 522 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 523 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 524 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 525 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 526 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 527 528 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 529 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 530 531 This requires the architecture to implement 532 arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). 533 534config SCHED_WALT 535 bool "Support window based load tracking" 536 depends on SMP 537 help 538 This feature will allow the scheduler to maintain a tunable window 539 based set of metrics for tasks and runqueues. These metrics can be 540 used to guide task placement as well as task frequency requirements 541 for cpufreq governors. 542 543config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 544 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 545 depends on MULTIUSER 546 help 547 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 548 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 549 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 550 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 551 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 552 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 553 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 554 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 555 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 556 557config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 558 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 559 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 560 default n 561 help 562 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 563 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 564 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 565 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 566 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 567 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 568 569config TASKSTATS 570 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 571 depends on NET 572 depends on MULTIUSER 573 default n 574 help 575 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 576 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 577 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 578 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 579 space on task exit. 580 581 Say N if unsure. 582 583config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 584 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 585 depends on TASKSTATS 586 select SCHED_INFO 587 help 588 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 589 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 590 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 591 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 592 593 Say N if unsure. 594 595config TASK_XACCT 596 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 597 depends on TASKSTATS 598 help 599 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 600 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 601 602 Say N if unsure. 603 604config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 605 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 606 depends on TASK_XACCT 607 help 608 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 609 task has caused. 610 611 Say N if unsure. 612 613config PSI 614 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 615 help 616 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 617 and IO capacity are in the system. 618 619 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 620 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 621 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 622 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 623 624 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 625 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 626 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 627 628 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 629 630 Say N if unsure. 631 632config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 633 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 634 default n 635 depends on PSI 636 help 637 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 638 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 639 kernel commandline during boot. 640 641 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 642 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 643 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 644 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 645 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 646 647 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 648 used for, say Y. 649 650 Say N if unsure. 651 652endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 653 654config CPU_ISOLATION 655 bool "CPU isolation" 656 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 657 default y 658 help 659 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 660 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 661 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 662 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 663 664 Say Y if unsure. 665 666config SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 667 bool "per-rq and per-cluster running average statistics" 668 default n 669 670config CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 671 bool "CPU isolation optimization" 672 depends on SMP 673 default n 674 help 675 This option enables cpu isolation optimization, which allows 676 to isolate cpu dynamically. The isolated cpu will be unavailable 677 to scheduler and load balancer, and all its non-pinned timers, 678 IRQs and tasks will be migrated to other cpus, only pinned 679 kthread and IRQS are still allowed to run, this achieves 680 similar effect as hotplug but at lower latency cost. 681 682config SCHED_CORE_CTRL 683 bool "Core control" 684 depends on CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 685 select SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 686 default n 687 help 688 This option enables the core control functionality in 689 the scheduler. Core control automatically isolate and 690 unisolate cores based on cpu load and utilization. 691 692source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 693 694config BUILD_BIN2C 695 bool 696 default n 697 698config IKCONFIG 699 tristate "Kernel .config support" 700 help 701 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 702 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 703 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 704 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 705 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 706 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 707 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 708 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 709 710config IKCONFIG_PROC 711 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 712 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 713 help 714 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 715 through /proc/config.gz. 716 717config IKHEADERS 718 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 719 depends on SYSFS 720 help 721 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 722 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 723 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 724 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 725 726config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 727 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 728 range 12 25 if !H8300 729 range 12 19 if H8300 730 default 17 731 depends on PRINTK 732 help 733 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 734 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 735 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 736 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 737 738 Examples: 739 17 => 128 KB 740 16 => 64 KB 741 15 => 32 KB 742 14 => 16 KB 743 13 => 8 KB 744 12 => 4 KB 745 746config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 747 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 748 depends on SMP 749 range 0 21 750 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 751 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 752 depends on PRINTK 753 help 754 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 755 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 756 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 757 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 758 e.g. backtraces. 759 760 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 761 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 762 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 763 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 764 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 765 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 766 767 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 768 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 769 770 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 771 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 772 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 773 774 Examples shift values and their meaning: 775 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 776 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 777 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 778 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 779 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 780 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 781 782config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 783 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 784 range 10 21 785 default 13 786 depends on PRINTK 787 help 788 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 789 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 790 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 791 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 792 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 793 794 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 795 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 796 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 797 798 Examples: 799 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 800 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 801 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 802 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 803 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 804 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 805 806# 807# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 808# 809config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 810 bool 811 812config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 813 bool 814 815menu "Scheduler features" 816 817config UCLAMP_TASK 818 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 819 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 820 help 821 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 822 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 823 824 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 825 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 826 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 827 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 828 829 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 830 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 831 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 832 833 If in doubt, say N. 834 835config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 836 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 837 range 5 20 838 default 5 839 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 840 help 841 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 842 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 843 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 844 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 845 846 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 847 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 848 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 849 effective value to 25%. 850 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 851 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 852 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 853 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 854 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 855 that bucket. 856 857 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 858 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 859 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 860 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 861 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 862 precision. 863 864 If in doubt, use the default value. 865 866config SCHED_LATENCY_NICE 867 bool "Enable latency feature for FAIR tasks" 868 default n 869 help 870 This feature use latency nice priority to decide if a cfs task can 871 preempt the current running task. 872 873source "kernel/sched/rtg/Kconfig" 874 875config SCHED_EAS 876 bool "EAS scheduler optimization" 877 default n 878 help 879 Check and migrate the CFS process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 880 881config SCHED_RT_CAS 882 bool "rt-cas optimization" 883 depends on SCHED_EAS 884 default n 885 help 886 RT task detects capacity during CPU selection 887 888config SCHED_RT_ACTIVE_LB 889 bool "RT Capacity Aware Misfit Task" 890 depends on SCHED_EAS 891 default n 892 help 893 Check and migrate the RT process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 894 895endmenu 896 897# 898# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 899# balancing logic: 900# 901config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 902 bool 903 904# 905# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 906# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 907# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 908# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 909# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 910# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 911config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 912 bool 913 914config CC_HAS_INT128 915 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 916 917# 918# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 919# 920config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 921 bool 922 923# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 924# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 925# 926config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 927 bool 928 929config NUMA_BALANCING 930 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 931 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 932 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 933 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 934 help 935 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 936 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 937 it has references to the node the task is running on. 938 939 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 940 941config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 942 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 943 default y 944 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 945 help 946 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 947 machine. 948 949menuconfig CGROUPS 950 bool "Control Group support" 951 select KERNFS 952 help 953 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 954 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 955 controls or device isolation. 956 See 957 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 958 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 959 and resource control) 960 961 Say N if unsure. 962 963if CGROUPS 964 965config PAGE_COUNTER 966 bool 967 968config MEMCG 969 bool "Memory controller" 970 select PAGE_COUNTER 971 select EVENTFD 972 help 973 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 974 975config MEMCG_SWAP 976 bool 977 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 978 default y 979 980config MEMCG_KMEM 981 bool 982 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 983 default y 984 985config BLK_CGROUP 986 bool "IO controller" 987 depends on BLOCK 988 default n 989 help 990 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 991 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 992 policies. 993 994 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 995 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 996 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 997 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 998 999 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1000 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1001 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1002 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1003 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1004 1005 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1006 1007config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1008 bool 1009 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1010 default y 1011 1012menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1013 bool "CPU controller" 1014 default n 1015 help 1016 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1017 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1018 tasks. 1019 1020if CGROUP_SCHED 1021config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1022 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1023 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1024 default CGROUP_SCHED 1025 1026config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1027 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1028 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1029 default n 1030 help 1031 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1032 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1033 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1034 restriction. 1035 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1036 1037config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1038 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1039 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1040 default n 1041 help 1042 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1043 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1044 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1045 realtime bandwidth for them. 1046 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1047 1048endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1049 1050config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1051 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1052 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1053 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1054 default n 1055 help 1056 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1057 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1058 1059 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1060 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1061 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1062 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1063 frequency a task will always use. 1064 1065 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1066 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1067 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1068 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1069 1070 If in doubt, say N. 1071 1072config CGROUP_PIDS 1073 bool "PIDs controller" 1074 help 1075 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1076 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1077 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1078 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1079 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1080 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1081 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1082 1083 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1084 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1085 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1086 attach to a cgroup. 1087 1088config CGROUP_RDMA 1089 bool "RDMA controller" 1090 help 1091 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1092 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1093 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1094 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1095 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1096 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1097 1098config CGROUP_FREEZER 1099 bool "Freezer controller" 1100 help 1101 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1102 cgroup. 1103 1104 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1105 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1106 1107 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1108 1109config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1110 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1111 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1112 select PAGE_COUNTER 1113 default n 1114 help 1115 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1116 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1117 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1118 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1119 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1120 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1121 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1122 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1123 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1124 1125config CPUSETS 1126 bool "Cpuset controller" 1127 depends on SMP 1128 help 1129 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1130 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1131 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1132 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1133 1134 Say N if unsure. 1135 1136config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1137 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1138 depends on CPUSETS 1139 default y 1140 1141config CGROUP_DEVICE 1142 bool "Device controller" 1143 help 1144 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1145 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1146 1147config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1148 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1149 help 1150 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1151 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1152 1153config CGROUP_PERF 1154 bool "Perf controller" 1155 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1156 help 1157 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1158 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1159 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1160 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1161 1162 Say N if unsure. 1163 1164config CGROUP_BPF 1165 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1166 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1167 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1168 help 1169 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1170 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1171 1172 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1173 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1174 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1175 inet sockets. 1176 1177config CGROUP_DEBUG 1178 bool "Debug controller" 1179 default n 1180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1181 help 1182 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1183 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1184 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1185 interfaces are not stable. 1186 1187 Say N. 1188 1189config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1190 bool 1191 default n 1192 1193endif # CGROUPS 1194 1195menuconfig NAMESPACES 1196 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1197 depends on MULTIUSER 1198 default !EXPERT 1199 help 1200 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1201 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1202 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1203 different namespaces. 1204 1205if NAMESPACES 1206 1207config UTS_NS 1208 bool "UTS namespace" 1209 default y 1210 help 1211 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1212 uname() system call 1213 1214config TIME_NS 1215 bool "TIME namespace" 1216 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1217 default y 1218 help 1219 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1220 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1221 1222config IPC_NS 1223 bool "IPC namespace" 1224 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1225 default y 1226 help 1227 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1228 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1229 1230config USER_NS 1231 bool "User namespace" 1232 default n 1233 help 1234 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1235 to provide different user info for different servers. 1236 1237 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1238 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1239 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1240 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1241 1242 If unsure, say N. 1243 1244config PID_NS 1245 bool "PID Namespaces" 1246 default y 1247 help 1248 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1249 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1250 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1251 1252config NET_NS 1253 bool "Network namespace" 1254 depends on NET 1255 default y 1256 help 1257 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1258 of the network stack. 1259 1260endif # NAMESPACES 1261 1262config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1263 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1264 select PROC_CHILDREN 1265 select KCMP 1266 default n 1267 help 1268 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1269 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1270 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1271 entries. 1272 1273 If unsure, say N here. 1274 1275config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1276 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1277 select CGROUPS 1278 select CGROUP_SCHED 1279 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1280 help 1281 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1282 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1283 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1284 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1285 upon task session. 1286 1287config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1288 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1289 depends on SYSFS 1290 default n 1291 help 1292 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1293 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1294 /sys/block/. 1295 1296 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1297 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1298 1299 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1300 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1301 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1302 1303 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1304 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1305 option enabled. 1306 1307 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1308 need to say Y here. 1309 1310config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1311 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1312 default n 1313 depends on SYSFS 1314 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1315 help 1316 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1317 1318 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1319 option. 1320 1321 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1322 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1323 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1324 1325config RELAY 1326 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1327 select IRQ_WORK 1328 help 1329 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1330 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1331 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1332 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1333 user space. 1334 1335 If unsure, say N. 1336 1337config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1338 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1339 help 1340 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1341 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1342 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1343 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1344 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1345 1346 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1347 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1348 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1349 1350 If unsure say Y. 1351 1352if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1353 1354source "usr/Kconfig" 1355 1356endif 1357 1358config BOOT_CONFIG 1359 bool "Boot config support" 1360 select BLK_DEV_INITRD 1361 help 1362 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1363 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1364 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1365 with checksum, size and magic word. 1366 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1367 1368 If unsure, say Y. 1369 1370choice 1371 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1372 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1373 1374config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1375 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1376 help 1377 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1378 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1379 helpful compile-time warnings. 1380 1381config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 1382 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 1383 depends on ARC 1384 help 1385 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 1386 the kernel yet more for performance. 1387 1388config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1389 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1390 help 1391 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1392 in a smaller kernel. 1393 1394endchoice 1395 1396config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1397 bool 1398 help 1399 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1400 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1401 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1402 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1403 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1404 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1405 1406config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1407 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1408 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1409 depends on EXPERT 1410 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1411 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1412 help 1413 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1414 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1415 and linking with --gc-sections. 1416 1417 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1418 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1419 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1420 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1421 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1422 own risk. 1423 1424config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1425 def_bool y 1426 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1427 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000 1428 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1429 1430config SYSCTL 1431 bool 1432 1433config HAVE_UID16 1434 bool 1435 1436config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1437 bool 1438 help 1439 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1440 1441config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1442 bool 1443 help 1444 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1445 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1446 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1447 1448config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1449 bool 1450 help 1451 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1452 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1453 the unaligned access emulation. 1454 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1455 1456config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1457 bool 1458 1459# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1460config BPF 1461 bool 1462 1463menuconfig EXPERT 1464 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1465 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1466 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1467 help 1468 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1469 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1470 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1471 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1472 1473config UID16 1474 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1475 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1476 default y 1477 help 1478 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1479 1480config MULTIUSER 1481 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1482 default y 1483 help 1484 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1485 capabilities. 1486 1487 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1488 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1489 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1490 setgid, and capset. 1491 1492 If unsure, say Y here. 1493 1494config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1495 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1496 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1497 help 1498 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1499 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1500 architectures. 1501 1502 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1503 1504config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1505 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1506 default y 1507 help 1508 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1509 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1510 compatibility with some systems. 1511 1512 If unsure say Y here. 1513 1514config FHANDLE 1515 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1516 select EXPORTFS 1517 default y 1518 help 1519 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1520 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1521 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1522 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1523 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1524 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1525 syscalls. 1526 1527config POSIX_TIMERS 1528 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1529 default y 1530 help 1531 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1532 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1533 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1534 1535 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1536 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1537 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1538 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1539 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1540 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1541 1542 If unsure say y. 1543 1544config PRINTK 1545 default y 1546 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1547 select IRQ_WORK 1548 help 1549 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1550 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1551 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1552 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1553 strongly discouraged. 1554 1555config PRINTK_NMI 1556 def_bool y 1557 depends on PRINTK 1558 depends on HAVE_NMI 1559 1560config BUG 1561 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1562 default y 1563 help 1564 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1565 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1566 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1567 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1568 Just say Y. 1569 1570config ELF_CORE 1571 depends on COREDUMP 1572 default y 1573 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1574 help 1575 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1576 1577 1578config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1579 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1580 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1581 select I8253_LOCK 1582 default y 1583 help 1584 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1585 support, saving some memory. 1586 1587config BASE_FULL 1588 default y 1589 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1590 help 1591 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1592 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1593 but may reduce performance. 1594 1595config FUTEX 1596 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1597 default y 1598 imply RT_MUTEXES 1599 help 1600 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1601 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1602 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1603 1604config FUTEX_PI 1605 bool 1606 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1607 default y 1608 1609config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1610 bool 1611 depends on FUTEX 1612 help 1613 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1614 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1615 checks. 1616 1617config EPOLL 1618 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1619 default y 1620 help 1621 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1622 support for epoll family of system calls. 1623 1624config SIGNALFD 1625 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1626 default y 1627 help 1628 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1629 on a file descriptor. 1630 1631 If unsure, say Y. 1632 1633config TIMERFD 1634 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1635 default y 1636 help 1637 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1638 events on a file descriptor. 1639 1640 If unsure, say Y. 1641 1642config EVENTFD 1643 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1644 default y 1645 help 1646 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1647 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1648 1649 If unsure, say Y. 1650 1651config SHMEM 1652 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1653 default y 1654 depends on MMU 1655 help 1656 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1657 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1658 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1659 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1660 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1661 1662config AIO 1663 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1664 default y 1665 help 1666 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1667 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1668 this option saves about 7k. 1669 1670config IO_URING 1671 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1672 select IO_WQ 1673 default y 1674 help 1675 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1676 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1677 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1678 1679config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1680 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1681 default y 1682 help 1683 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1684 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1685 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1686 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1687 space. 1688 1689config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1690 bool 1691 help 1692 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1693 1694config MEMBARRIER 1695 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1696 default y 1697 help 1698 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1699 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1700 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1701 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1702 compiler barrier. 1703 1704 If unsure, say Y. 1705 1706config KALLSYMS 1707 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1708 default y 1709 help 1710 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1711 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1712 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1713 1714config KALLSYMS_ALL 1715 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1716 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1717 help 1718 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1719 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1720 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1721 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1722 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1723 1724 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1725 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1726 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1727 something like this). 1728 1729 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1730 1731config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1732 bool 1733 depends on KALLSYMS 1734 default X86_64 && SMP 1735 1736config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1737 bool 1738 depends on KALLSYMS 1739 default !IA64 1740 help 1741 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1742 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1743 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1744 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1745 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1746 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1747 address encountered in the image. 1748 1749 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1750 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1751 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1752 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1753 1754# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1755 1756# syscall, maps, verifier 1757 1758config BPF_LSM 1759 bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 1760 depends on BPF_EVENTS 1761 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1762 depends on SECURITY 1763 depends on BPF_JIT 1764 help 1765 Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1766 implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1767 1768 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1769 1770config BPF_SYSCALL 1771 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1772 select BPF 1773 select IRQ_WORK 1774 select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1775 default n 1776 help 1777 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1778 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1779 1780config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 1781 bool 1782 1783config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1784 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1785 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1786 help 1787 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1788 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1789 1790config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 1791 def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1792 depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1793 1794config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF 1795 bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" 1796 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1797 help 1798 Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding 1799 /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled knob to 2. An admin can 1800 still reenable it by setting it to 0 later on, or permanently 1801 disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to 1802 0 is possible anymore). 1803 1804source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1805 1806config USERFAULTFD 1807 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1808 depends on MMU 1809 help 1810 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1811 handle page faults in userland. 1812 1813config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1814 bool 1815 1816config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1817 bool 1818 1819config KCMP 1820 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1821 help 1822 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1823 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1824 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1825 memory space. 1826 1827 If unsure, say N. 1828 1829config RSEQ 1830 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1831 default y 1832 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1833 select MEMBARRIER 1834 help 1835 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1836 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1837 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1838 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1839 per-CPU data. 1840 1841 If unsure, say Y. 1842 1843config DEBUG_RSEQ 1844 default n 1845 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1846 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1847 help 1848 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config EMBEDDED 1853 bool "Embedded system" 1854 option allnoconfig_y 1855 select EXPERT 1856 help 1857 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1858 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1859 for configuration. 1860 1861config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1862 bool 1863 help 1864 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1865 1866config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1867 bool 1868 help 1869 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1870 1871config PC104 1872 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1873 help 1874 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1875 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1876 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1877 1878menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1879 1880config PERF_EVENTS 1881 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1882 default y if PROFILING 1883 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1884 select IRQ_WORK 1885 select SRCU 1886 help 1887 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1888 by software and hardware. 1889 1890 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1891 use of generic tracepoints. 1892 1893 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1894 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1895 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1896 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1897 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1898 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1899 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1900 1901 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1902 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1903 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1904 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1905 capabilities on top of those. 1906 1907 Say Y if unsure. 1908 1909config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1910 default n 1911 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1912 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1913 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1914 help 1915 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1916 1917 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1918 that don't require it. 1919 1920 Say N if unsure. 1921 1922endmenu 1923 1924config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1925 default y 1926 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1927 help 1928 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1929 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1930 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1931 if VM event counters are disabled. 1932 1933config SLUB_DEBUG 1934 default y 1935 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1936 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1937 help 1938 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1939 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1940 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1941 no support for cache validation etc. 1942 1943config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1944 default n 1945 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1946 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1947 help 1948 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1949 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1950 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1951 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1952 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1953 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1954 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1955 config option determines the parameter's default value. 1956 1957config COMPAT_BRK 1958 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1959 default y 1960 help 1961 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1962 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1963 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1964 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1965 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1966 1967 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1968 1969choice 1970 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1971 default SLUB 1972 help 1973 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1974 1975config SLAB 1976 bool "SLAB" 1977 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1978 help 1979 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1980 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1981 per cpu and per node queues. 1982 1983config SLUB 1984 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1985 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1986 help 1987 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1988 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1989 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1990 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1991 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1992 a slab allocator. 1993 1994config SLOB 1995 depends on EXPERT 1996 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1997 help 1998 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1999 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 2000 does not perform as well on large systems. 2001 2002endchoice 2003 2004config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2005 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2006 default y 2007 help 2008 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2009 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2010 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2011 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2012 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2013 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2014 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2015 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2016 command line. 2017 2018config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2019 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2020 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2021 help 2022 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2023 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2024 allocator against heap overflows. 2025 2026config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2027 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2028 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2029 help 2030 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2031 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2032 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2033 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 2034 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 2035 CONFIG_SLUB. 2036 2037config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 2038 bool "Page allocator randomization" 2039 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 2040 help 2041 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 2042 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 2043 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 2044 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 2045 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 2046 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 2047 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 2048 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 2049 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 2050 benefits on x86. 2051 2052 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 2053 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 2054 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 2055 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 2056 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 2057 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 2058 2059 Say Y if unsure. 2060 2061config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 2062 default y 2063 depends on SLUB && SMP 2064 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 2065 help 2066 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 2067 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 2068 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 2069 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 2070 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 2071 2072config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 2073 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 2074 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 2075 default n 2076 help 2077 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 2078 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 2079 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 2080 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 2081 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 2082 then the flag will be ignored. 2083 2084 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 2085 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 2086 2087 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2088 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2089 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2090 it is normally safe to say Y here. 2091 2092 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2093 2094config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2095 def_bool n 2096 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2097 select KEYS 2098 select CRYPTO 2099 select CRYPTO_RSA 2100 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2101 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2102 select ASN1 2103 select OID_REGISTRY 2104 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2105 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 2106 help 2107 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2108 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2109 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2110 verification. 2111 2112config PROFILING 2113 bool "Profiling support" 2114 help 2115 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2116 by profilers such as OProfile. 2117 2118# 2119# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 2120# dynamically changed for a probe function. 2121# 2122config TRACEPOINTS 2123 bool 2124 2125endmenu # General setup 2126 2127source "arch/Kconfig" 2128 2129config RT_MUTEXES 2130 bool 2131 2132config BASE_SMALL 2133 int 2134 default 0 if BASE_FULL 2135 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 2136 2137config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2138 def_bool n 2139 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2140 2141menuconfig MODULES 2142 bool "Enable loadable module support" 2143 option modules 2144 help 2145 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 2146 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 2147 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 2148 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 2149 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 2150 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 2151 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 2152 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 2153 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 2154 2155 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 2156 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 2157 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 2158 this). 2159 2160 If unsure, say Y. 2161 2162if MODULES 2163 2164config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2165 bool "Forced module loading" 2166 default n 2167 help 2168 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 2169 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 2170 is usually a really bad idea. 2171 2172config MODULE_UNLOAD 2173 bool "Module unloading" 2174 help 2175 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 2176 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2177 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2178 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 2179 2180config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 2181 bool "Forced module unloading" 2182 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 2183 help 2184 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 2185 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 2186 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 2187 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 2188 If unsure, say N. 2189 2190config MODVERSIONS 2191 bool "Module versioning support" 2192 help 2193 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 2194 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 2195 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 2196 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 2197 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 2198 unsure, say N. 2199 2200config ASM_MODVERSIONS 2201 bool 2202 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 2203 help 2204 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 2205 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 2206 supports it. 2207 2208config MODULE_REL_CRCS 2209 bool 2210 depends on MODVERSIONS 2211 2212config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 2213 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 2214 help 2215 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 2216 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 2217 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 2218 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 2219 others sometimes change the module source without updating 2220 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 2221 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 2222 2223config MODULE_SIG 2224 bool "Module signature verification" 2225 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2226 help 2227 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2228 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2229 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2230 2231 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2232 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2233 library. 2234 2235 You should enable this option if you wish to use either 2236 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 2237 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 2238 of the lockdown policy. 2239 2240 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2241 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2242 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2243 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2244 2245config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2246 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2247 depends on MODULE_SIG 2248 help 2249 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2250 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2251 2252config MODULE_SIG_ALL 2253 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2254 default y 2255 depends on MODULE_SIG 2256 help 2257 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2258 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2259 2260comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2261 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2262 2263choice 2264 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2265 depends on MODULE_SIG 2266 help 2267 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2268 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2269 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2270 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2271 the signature on that module. 2272 2273config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2274 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2275 select CRYPTO_SHA1 2276 2277config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2278 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2279 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2280 2281config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2282 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2283 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2284 2285config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2286 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2287 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2288 2289config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2290 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2291 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2292 2293endchoice 2294 2295config MODULE_SIG_HASH 2296 string 2297 depends on MODULE_SIG 2298 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2299 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2300 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2301 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2302 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2303 2304config MODULE_COMPRESS 2305 bool "Compress modules on installation" 2306 help 2307 2308 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2309 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2310 2311 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2312 2313 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2314 compressed upon installation. 2315 2316 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2317 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2318 2319 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2320 2321 If in doubt, say N. 2322 2323choice 2324 prompt "Compression algorithm" 2325 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2326 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2327 help 2328 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2329 'make modules_install'. 2330 2331 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2332 2333config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2334 bool "GZIP" 2335 2336config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2337 bool "XZ" 2338 2339endchoice 2340 2341config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 2342 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 2343 help 2344 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 2345 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 2346 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 2347 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 2348 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 2349 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 2350 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 2351 2352 If unsure, say N. 2353 2354config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2355 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2356 default y if X86 2357 help 2358 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2359 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2360 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2361 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2362 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2363 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2364 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2365 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2366 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2367 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2368 your module is. 2369 2370config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2371 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2372 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2373 help 2374 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2375 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2376 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2377 many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2378 2379 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2380 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2381 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2382 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2383 2384 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2385 2386config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 2387 string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 2388 depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2389 help 2390 By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 2391 build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 2392 2393 UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 2394 exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 2395 set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 2396 one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 2397 source tree. 2398 2399endif # MODULES 2400 2401config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 2402 def_bool y 2403 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 2404 2405config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2406 bool 2407 help 2408 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2409 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2410 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2411 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2412 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2413 2414source "block/Kconfig" 2415 2416config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2417 bool 2418 2419config PADATA 2420 depends on SMP 2421 bool 2422 2423config ASN1 2424 tristate 2425 help 2426 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2427 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2428 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2429 functions to call on what tags. 2430 2431source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2432 2433config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 2434 bool 2435 2436config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2437 bool 2438 2439# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2440# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2441# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2442# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2443# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2444# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2445# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2446config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2447 def_bool n 2448