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 AS_IS_GNU 51 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 52 53config AS_IS_LLVM 54 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 55 56config AS_VERSION 57 int 58 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 59 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 60 default $(as-version) 61 62config LLD_VERSION 63 int 64 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) 65 66config CC_CAN_LINK 67 bool 68 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 69 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 70 71config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 72 bool 73 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 74 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 75 76config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 77 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 78 79config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 80 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 81 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) 82 83config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 84 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 86 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) 87 88config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 89 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 90 91config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 92 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 93 94config CONSTRUCTORS 95 bool 96 depends on !UML 97 98config IRQ_WORK 99 bool 100 101config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 102 bool 103 104config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 105 bool 106 help 107 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 108 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 109 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 110 111 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 112 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 113 114menu "General setup" 115 116config BROKEN 117 bool 118 119config BROKEN_ON_SMP 120 bool 121 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 122 default y 123 124config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 125 int 126 default 32 if !UML 127 default 128 if UML 128 help 129 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 130 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 131 132config COMPILE_TEST 133 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 134 depends on HAS_IOMEM 135 help 136 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 137 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 138 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 139 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 140 drivers to compile-test them. 141 142 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 143 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 144 drivers to be distributed. 145 146config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 147 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 148 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 149 help 150 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 151 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 152 153 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 154 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 155 156config LOCALVERSION 157 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 158 help 159 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 160 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 161 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 162 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 163 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 164 be a maximum of 64 characters. 165 166config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 167 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 168 default y 169 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 170 help 171 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 172 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 173 top of tree revision. 174 175 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 176 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 177 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 178 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 179 180 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 181 by running the command: 182 183 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 184 185 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 186 187config BUILD_SALT 188 string "Build ID Salt" 189 default "" 190 help 191 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 192 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 193 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 194 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 195 196config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 197 bool 198 199config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 200 bool 201 202config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 203 bool 204 205config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 206 bool 207 208config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 209 bool 210 211config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 212 bool 213 214config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 215 bool 216 217config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 218 bool 219 220choice 221 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 222 default KERNEL_GZIP 223 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 224 help 225 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 226 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 227 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 228 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 229 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 230 231 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 232 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 233 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 234 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 235 236 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 237 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 238 size matters less. 239 240 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 241 242config KERNEL_GZIP 243 bool "Gzip" 244 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 245 help 246 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 247 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 248 249config KERNEL_BZIP2 250 bool "Bzip2" 251 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 252 help 253 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 254 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 255 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 256 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 257 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 258 259config KERNEL_LZMA 260 bool "LZMA" 261 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 262 help 263 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 264 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 265 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 266 267config KERNEL_XZ 268 bool "XZ" 269 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 270 help 271 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 272 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 273 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 274 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 275 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 276 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 277 278 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 279 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 280 and LZO. Compression is slow. 281 282config KERNEL_LZO 283 bool "LZO" 284 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 285 help 286 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 287 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 288 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 289 290config KERNEL_LZ4 291 bool "LZ4" 292 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 293 help 294 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 295 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 296 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 297 298 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 299 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 300 faster than LZO. 301 302config KERNEL_ZSTD 303 bool "ZSTD" 304 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 305 help 306 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 307 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 308 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 309 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 310 line tool is required for compression. 311 312config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 313 bool "None" 314 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 315 help 316 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 317 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 318 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 319 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 320 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 321 322endchoice 323 324config DEFAULT_INIT 325 string "Default init path" 326 default "" 327 help 328 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 329 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 330 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 331 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 332 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 333 334config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 335 string "Default hostname" 336 default "(none)" 337 help 338 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 339 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 340 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 341 system more usable with less configuration. 342 343# 344# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 345# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 346# 347config ARCH_NO_SWAP 348 bool 349 350config SWAP 351 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 352 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 353 default y 354 help 355 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 356 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 357 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 358 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 359 360config SYSVIPC 361 bool "System V IPC" 362 help 363 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 364 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 365 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 366 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 367 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 368 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 369 you'll need to say Y here. 370 371 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 372 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 373 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 374 375config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 376 bool 377 depends on SYSVIPC 378 depends on SYSCTL 379 default y 380 381config POSIX_MQUEUE 382 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 383 depends on NET 384 help 385 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 386 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 387 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 388 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 389 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 390 391 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 392 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 393 operations on message queues. 394 395 If unsure, say Y. 396 397config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 398 bool 399 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 400 depends on SYSCTL 401 default y 402 403config WATCH_QUEUE 404 bool "General notification queue" 405 default n 406 help 407 408 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 409 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 410 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 411 notifications. 412 413 See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 414 415config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 416 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 417 depends on MMU 418 default y 419 help 420 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 421 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 422 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 423 See the man page for more details. 424 425config USELIB 426 bool "uselib syscall" 427 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 428 help 429 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 430 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 431 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 432 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 433 running glibc can safely disable this. 434 435config AUDIT 436 bool "Auditing support" 437 depends on NET 438 help 439 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 440 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 441 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 442 on architectures which support it. 443 444config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 445 bool 446 447config AUDITSYSCALL 448 def_bool y 449 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 450 select FSNOTIFY 451 452source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 453source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 454source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 455 456menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 457 458config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 459 bool 460 461choice 462 prompt "Cputime accounting" 463 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 464 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 465 466# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 467config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 468 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 469 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 470 help 471 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 472 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 473 granularity. 474 475 If unsure, say Y. 476 477config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 478 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 479 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 480 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 481 help 482 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 483 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 484 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 485 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 486 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 487 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 488 systems. 489 490config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 491 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 492 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 493 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 494 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 495 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 496 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 497 help 498 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 499 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 500 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 501 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 502 overhead. 503 504 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 505 dynticks subsystem development. 506 507 If unsure, say N. 508 509endchoice 510 511config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 512 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 513 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 514 help 515 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 516 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 517 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 518 small performance impact. 519 520 If in doubt, say N here. 521 522config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 523 def_bool y 524 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 525 depends on SMP 526 527config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 528 bool 529 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 530 default y if ARM64 531 depends on SMP 532 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 533 help 534 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 535 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 536 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 537 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 538 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 539 540 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 541 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 542 543 This requires the architecture to implement 544 arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). 545 546config SCHED_WALT 547 bool "Support window based load tracking" 548 depends on SMP 549 help 550 This feature will allow the scheduler to maintain a tunable window 551 based set of metrics for tasks and runqueues. These metrics can be 552 used to guide task placement as well as task frequency requirements 553 for cpufreq governors. 554 555config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 556 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 557 depends on MULTIUSER 558 help 559 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 560 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 561 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 562 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 563 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 564 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 565 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 566 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 567 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 568 569config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 570 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 571 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 572 default n 573 help 574 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 575 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 576 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 577 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 578 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 579 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 580 581config TASKSTATS 582 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 583 depends on NET 584 depends on MULTIUSER 585 default n 586 help 587 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 588 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 589 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 590 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 591 space on task exit. 592 593 Say N if unsure. 594 595config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 596 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 597 depends on TASKSTATS 598 select SCHED_INFO 599 help 600 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 601 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 602 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 603 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 604 605 Say N if unsure. 606 607config TASK_XACCT 608 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 609 depends on TASKSTATS 610 help 611 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 612 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 613 614 Say N if unsure. 615 616config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 617 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 618 depends on TASK_XACCT 619 help 620 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 621 task has caused. 622 623 Say N if unsure. 624 625config PSI 626 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 627 help 628 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 629 and IO capacity are in the system. 630 631 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 632 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 633 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 634 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 635 636 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 637 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 638 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 639 640 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 641 642 Say N if unsure. 643 644config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 645 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 646 default n 647 depends on PSI 648 help 649 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 650 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 651 kernel commandline during boot. 652 653 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 654 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 655 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 656 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 657 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 658 659 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 660 used for, say Y. 661 662 Say N if unsure. 663 664endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 665 666config CPU_ISOLATION 667 bool "CPU isolation" 668 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 669 default y 670 help 671 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 672 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 673 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 674 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 675 676 Say Y if unsure. 677 678config SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 679 bool "per-rq and per-cluster running average statistics" 680 default n 681 682config CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 683 bool "CPU isolation optimization" 684 depends on SMP 685 default n 686 help 687 This option enables cpu isolation optimization, which allows 688 to isolate cpu dynamically. The isolated cpu will be unavailable 689 to scheduler and load balancer, and all its non-pinned timers, 690 IRQs and tasks will be migrated to other cpus, only pinned 691 kthread and IRQS are still allowed to run, this achieves 692 similar effect as hotplug but at lower latency cost. 693 694config SCHED_CORE_CTRL 695 bool "Core control" 696 depends on CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 697 select SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 698 default n 699 help 700 This option enables the core control functionality in 701 the scheduler. Core control automatically isolate and 702 unisolate cores based on cpu load and utilization. 703 704source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 705 706config BUILD_BIN2C 707 bool 708 default n 709 710config IKCONFIG 711 tristate "Kernel .config support" 712 help 713 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 714 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 715 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 716 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 717 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 718 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 719 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 720 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 721 722config IKCONFIG_PROC 723 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 724 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 725 help 726 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 727 through /proc/config.gz. 728 729config IKHEADERS 730 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 731 depends on SYSFS 732 help 733 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 734 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 735 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 736 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 737 738config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 739 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 740 range 12 25 if !H8300 741 range 12 19 if H8300 742 default 17 743 depends on PRINTK 744 help 745 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 746 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 747 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 748 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 749 750 Examples: 751 17 => 128 KB 752 16 => 64 KB 753 15 => 32 KB 754 14 => 16 KB 755 13 => 8 KB 756 12 => 4 KB 757 758config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 759 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 760 depends on SMP 761 range 0 21 762 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 763 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 764 depends on PRINTK 765 help 766 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 767 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 768 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 769 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 770 e.g. backtraces. 771 772 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 773 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 774 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 775 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 776 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 777 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 778 779 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 780 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 781 782 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 783 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 784 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 785 786 Examples shift values and their meaning: 787 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 788 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 789 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 790 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 791 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 792 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 793 794config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 795 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 796 range 10 21 797 default 13 798 depends on PRINTK 799 help 800 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 801 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 802 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 803 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 804 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 805 806 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 807 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 808 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 809 810 Examples: 811 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 812 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 813 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 814 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 815 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 816 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 817 818# 819# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 820# 821config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 822 bool 823 824config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 825 bool 826 827menu "Scheduler features" 828 829config UCLAMP_TASK 830 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 831 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 832 help 833 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 834 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 835 836 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 837 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 838 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 839 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 840 841 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 842 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 843 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 844 845 If in doubt, say N. 846 847config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 848 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 849 range 5 20 850 default 5 851 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 852 help 853 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 854 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 855 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 856 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 857 858 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 859 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 860 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 861 effective value to 25%. 862 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 863 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 864 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 865 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 866 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 867 that bucket. 868 869 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 870 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 871 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 872 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 873 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 874 precision. 875 876 If in doubt, use the default value. 877 878config SCHED_LATENCY_NICE 879 bool "Enable latency feature for FAIR tasks" 880 default n 881 help 882 This feature use latency nice priority to decide if a cfs task can 883 preempt the current running task. 884 885source "kernel/sched/rtg/Kconfig" 886 887config SCHED_EAS 888 bool "EAS scheduler optimization" 889 default n 890 help 891 Check and migrate the CFS process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 892 893config SCHED_RT_CAS 894 bool "rt-cas optimization" 895 depends on SCHED_EAS 896 default n 897 help 898 RT task detects capacity during CPU selection 899 900config SCHED_RT_ACTIVE_LB 901 bool "RT Capacity Aware Misfit Task" 902 depends on SCHED_EAS 903 default n 904 help 905 Check and migrate the RT process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 906 907endmenu 908 909# 910# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 911# balancing logic: 912# 913config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 914 bool 915 916# 917# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 918# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 919# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 920# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 921# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 922# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 923config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 924 bool 925 926config CC_HAS_INT128 927 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 928 929# 930# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 931# 932config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 933 bool 934 935# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 936# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 937# 938config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 939 bool 940 941config NUMA_BALANCING 942 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 943 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 944 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 945 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 946 help 947 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 948 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 949 it has references to the node the task is running on. 950 951 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 952 953config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 954 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 955 default y 956 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 957 help 958 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 959 machine. 960 961menuconfig CGROUPS 962 bool "Control Group support" 963 select KERNFS 964 help 965 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 966 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 967 controls or device isolation. 968 See 969 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 970 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 971 and resource control) 972 973 Say N if unsure. 974 975if CGROUPS 976 977config PAGE_COUNTER 978 bool 979 980config MEMCG 981 bool "Memory controller" 982 select PAGE_COUNTER 983 select EVENTFD 984 help 985 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 986 987config MEMCG_SWAP 988 bool 989 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 990 default y 991 992config MEMCG_KMEM 993 bool 994 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 995 default y 996 997config BLK_CGROUP 998 bool "IO controller" 999 depends on BLOCK 1000 default n 1001 help 1002 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1003 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1004 policies. 1005 1006 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1007 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1008 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1009 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1010 1011 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1012 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1013 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1014 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1015 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1016 1017 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1018 1019config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1020 bool 1021 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1022 default y 1023 1024menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1025 bool "CPU controller" 1026 default n 1027 help 1028 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1029 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1030 tasks. 1031 1032if CGROUP_SCHED 1033config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1034 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1035 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1036 default CGROUP_SCHED 1037 1038config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1039 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1040 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1041 default n 1042 help 1043 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1044 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1045 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1046 restriction. 1047 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1048 1049config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1050 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1051 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1052 default n 1053 help 1054 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1055 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1056 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1057 realtime bandwidth for them. 1058 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1059 1060endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1061 1062config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1063 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1064 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1065 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1066 default n 1067 help 1068 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1069 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1070 1071 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1072 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1073 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1074 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1075 frequency a task will always use. 1076 1077 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1078 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1079 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1080 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1081 1082 If in doubt, say N. 1083 1084config CGROUP_PIDS 1085 bool "PIDs controller" 1086 help 1087 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1088 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1089 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1090 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1091 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1092 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1093 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1094 1095 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1096 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1097 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1098 attach to a cgroup. 1099 1100config CGROUP_RDMA 1101 bool "RDMA controller" 1102 help 1103 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1104 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1105 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1106 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1107 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1108 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1109 1110config CGROUP_FREEZER 1111 bool "Freezer controller" 1112 help 1113 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1114 cgroup. 1115 1116 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1117 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1118 1119 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1120 1121config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1122 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1123 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1124 select PAGE_COUNTER 1125 default n 1126 help 1127 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1128 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1129 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1130 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1131 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1132 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1133 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1134 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1135 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1136 1137config CPUSETS 1138 bool "Cpuset controller" 1139 depends on SMP 1140 help 1141 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1142 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1143 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1144 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1145 1146 Say N if unsure. 1147 1148config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1149 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1150 depends on CPUSETS 1151 default y 1152 1153config CGROUP_DEVICE 1154 bool "Device controller" 1155 help 1156 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1157 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1158 1159config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1160 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1161 help 1162 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1163 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1164 1165config CGROUP_PERF 1166 bool "Perf controller" 1167 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1168 help 1169 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1170 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1171 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1172 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1173 1174 Say N if unsure. 1175 1176config CGROUP_BPF 1177 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1178 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1179 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1180 help 1181 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1182 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1183 1184 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1185 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1186 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1187 inet sockets. 1188 1189config CGROUP_DEBUG 1190 bool "Debug controller" 1191 default n 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1193 help 1194 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1195 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1196 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1197 interfaces are not stable. 1198 1199 Say N. 1200 1201config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1202 bool 1203 default n 1204 1205endif # CGROUPS 1206 1207menuconfig NAMESPACES 1208 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1209 depends on MULTIUSER 1210 default !EXPERT 1211 help 1212 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1213 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1214 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1215 different namespaces. 1216 1217if NAMESPACES 1218 1219config UTS_NS 1220 bool "UTS namespace" 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1224 uname() system call 1225 1226config TIME_NS 1227 bool "TIME namespace" 1228 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1229 default y 1230 help 1231 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1232 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1233 1234config IPC_NS 1235 bool "IPC namespace" 1236 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1237 default y 1238 help 1239 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1240 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1241 1242config USER_NS 1243 bool "User namespace" 1244 default n 1245 help 1246 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1247 to provide different user info for different servers. 1248 1249 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1250 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1251 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1252 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1253 1254 If unsure, say N. 1255 1256config PID_NS 1257 bool "PID Namespaces" 1258 default y 1259 help 1260 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1261 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1262 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1263 1264config NET_NS 1265 bool "Network namespace" 1266 depends on NET 1267 default y 1268 help 1269 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1270 of the network stack. 1271 1272endif # NAMESPACES 1273 1274config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1275 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1276 select PROC_CHILDREN 1277 select KCMP 1278 default n 1279 help 1280 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1281 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1282 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1283 entries. 1284 1285 If unsure, say N here. 1286 1287config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1288 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1289 select CGROUPS 1290 select CGROUP_SCHED 1291 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1292 help 1293 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1294 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1295 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1296 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1297 upon task session. 1298 1299config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1300 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1301 depends on SYSFS 1302 default n 1303 help 1304 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1305 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1306 /sys/block/. 1307 1308 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1309 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1310 1311 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1312 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1313 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1314 1315 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1316 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1317 option enabled. 1318 1319 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1320 need to say Y here. 1321 1322config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1323 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1324 default n 1325 depends on SYSFS 1326 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1327 help 1328 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1329 1330 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1331 option. 1332 1333 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1334 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1335 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1336 1337config RELAY 1338 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1339 select IRQ_WORK 1340 help 1341 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1342 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1343 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1344 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1345 user space. 1346 1347 If unsure, say N. 1348 1349config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1350 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1351 help 1352 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1353 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1354 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1355 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1356 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1357 1358 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1359 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1360 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1361 1362 If unsure say Y. 1363 1364if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1365 1366source "usr/Kconfig" 1367 1368endif 1369 1370config BOOT_CONFIG 1371 bool "Boot config support" 1372 select BLK_DEV_INITRD 1373 help 1374 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1375 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1376 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1377 with checksum, size and magic word. 1378 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1379 1380 If unsure, say Y. 1381 1382choice 1383 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1384 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1385 1386config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1387 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1388 help 1389 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1390 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1391 helpful compile-time warnings. 1392 1393config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 1394 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 1395 depends on ARC 1396 help 1397 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 1398 the kernel yet more for performance. 1399 1400config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1401 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1402 help 1403 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1404 in a smaller kernel. 1405 1406endchoice 1407 1408config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1409 bool 1410 help 1411 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1412 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1413 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1414 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1415 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1416 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1417 1418config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1419 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1420 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1421 depends on EXPERT 1422 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1423 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1424 help 1425 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1426 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1427 and linking with --gc-sections. 1428 1429 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1430 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1431 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1432 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1433 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1434 own risk. 1435 1436config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1437 def_bool y 1438 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1439 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000 1440 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1441 1442config SYSCTL 1443 bool 1444 1445config HAVE_UID16 1446 bool 1447 1448config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1449 bool 1450 help 1451 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1452 1453config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1454 bool 1455 help 1456 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1457 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1458 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1459 1460config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1461 bool 1462 help 1463 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1464 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1465 the unaligned access emulation. 1466 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1467 1468config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1469 bool 1470 1471# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1472config BPF 1473 bool 1474 1475menuconfig EXPERT 1476 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1477 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1478 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1479 help 1480 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1481 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1482 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1483 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1484 1485config UID16 1486 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1487 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1488 default y 1489 help 1490 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1491 1492config MULTIUSER 1493 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1494 default y 1495 help 1496 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1497 capabilities. 1498 1499 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1500 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1501 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1502 setgid, and capset. 1503 1504 If unsure, say Y here. 1505 1506config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1507 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1508 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1509 help 1510 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1511 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1512 architectures. 1513 1514 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1515 1516config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1517 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1518 default y 1519 help 1520 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1521 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1522 compatibility with some systems. 1523 1524 If unsure say Y here. 1525 1526config FHANDLE 1527 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1528 select EXPORTFS 1529 default y 1530 help 1531 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1532 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1533 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1534 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1535 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1536 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1537 syscalls. 1538 1539config POSIX_TIMERS 1540 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1541 default y 1542 help 1543 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1544 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1545 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1546 1547 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1548 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1549 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1550 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1551 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1552 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1553 1554 If unsure say y. 1555 1556config PRINTK 1557 default y 1558 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1559 select IRQ_WORK 1560 help 1561 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1562 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1563 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1564 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1565 strongly discouraged. 1566 1567config PRINTK_NMI 1568 def_bool y 1569 depends on PRINTK 1570 depends on HAVE_NMI 1571 1572config BUG 1573 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1574 default y 1575 help 1576 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1577 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1578 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1579 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1580 Just say Y. 1581 1582config ELF_CORE 1583 depends on COREDUMP 1584 default y 1585 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1586 help 1587 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1588 1589 1590config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1591 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1592 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1593 select I8253_LOCK 1594 default y 1595 help 1596 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1597 support, saving some memory. 1598 1599config BASE_FULL 1600 default y 1601 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1602 help 1603 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1604 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1605 but may reduce performance. 1606 1607config FUTEX 1608 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1609 default y 1610 imply RT_MUTEXES 1611 help 1612 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1613 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1614 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1615 1616config FUTEX_PI 1617 bool 1618 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1619 default y 1620 1621config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1622 bool 1623 depends on FUTEX 1624 help 1625 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1626 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1627 checks. 1628 1629config EPOLL 1630 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1631 default y 1632 help 1633 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1634 support for epoll family of system calls. 1635 1636config SIGNALFD 1637 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1638 default y 1639 help 1640 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1641 on a file descriptor. 1642 1643 If unsure, say Y. 1644 1645config TIMERFD 1646 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1647 default y 1648 help 1649 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1650 events on a file descriptor. 1651 1652 If unsure, say Y. 1653 1654config EVENTFD 1655 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1656 default y 1657 help 1658 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1659 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1660 1661 If unsure, say Y. 1662 1663config SHMEM 1664 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1665 default y 1666 depends on MMU 1667 help 1668 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1669 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1670 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1671 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1672 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1673 1674config AIO 1675 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1676 default y 1677 help 1678 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1679 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1680 this option saves about 7k. 1681 1682config IO_URING 1683 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1684 select IO_WQ 1685 default y 1686 help 1687 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1688 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1689 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1690 1691config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1692 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1693 default y 1694 help 1695 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1696 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1697 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1698 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1699 space. 1700 1701config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1702 bool 1703 help 1704 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1705 1706config MEMBARRIER 1707 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1708 default y 1709 help 1710 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1711 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1712 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1713 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1714 compiler barrier. 1715 1716 If unsure, say Y. 1717 1718config KALLSYMS 1719 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1720 default y 1721 help 1722 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1723 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1724 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1725 1726config KALLSYMS_ALL 1727 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1728 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1729 help 1730 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1731 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1732 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1733 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1734 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1735 1736 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1737 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1738 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1739 something like this). 1740 1741 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1742 1743config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1744 bool 1745 depends on KALLSYMS 1746 default X86_64 && SMP 1747 1748config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1749 bool 1750 depends on KALLSYMS 1751 default !IA64 1752 help 1753 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1754 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1755 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1756 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1757 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1758 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1759 address encountered in the image. 1760 1761 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1762 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1763 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1764 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1765 1766# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1767 1768# syscall, maps, verifier 1769 1770config BPF_LSM 1771 bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 1772 depends on BPF_EVENTS 1773 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1774 depends on SECURITY 1775 depends on BPF_JIT 1776 help 1777 Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1778 implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1779 1780 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1781 1782config BPF_SYSCALL 1783 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1784 select BPF 1785 select IRQ_WORK 1786 select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1787 default n 1788 help 1789 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1790 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1791 1792config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 1793 bool 1794 1795config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1796 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1797 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1798 help 1799 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1800 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1801 1802config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 1803 def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1804 depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1805 1806config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF 1807 bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" 1808 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1809 help 1810 Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding 1811 /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled knob to 2. An admin can 1812 still reenable it by setting it to 0 later on, or permanently 1813 disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to 1814 0 is possible anymore). 1815 1816source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1817 1818config USERFAULTFD 1819 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1820 depends on MMU 1821 help 1822 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1823 handle page faults in userland. 1824 1825config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1826 bool 1827 1828config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1829 bool 1830 1831config KCMP 1832 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1833 help 1834 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1835 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1836 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1837 memory space. 1838 1839 If unsure, say N. 1840 1841config RSEQ 1842 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1843 default y 1844 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1845 select MEMBARRIER 1846 help 1847 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1848 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1849 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1850 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1851 per-CPU data. 1852 1853 If unsure, say Y. 1854 1855config DEBUG_RSEQ 1856 default n 1857 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1858 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1859 help 1860 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1861 1862 If unsure, say N. 1863 1864config EMBEDDED 1865 bool "Embedded system" 1866 option allnoconfig_y 1867 select EXPERT 1868 help 1869 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1870 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1871 for configuration. 1872 1873config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1874 bool 1875 help 1876 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1877 1878config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1879 bool 1880 help 1881 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1882 1883config PC104 1884 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1885 help 1886 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1887 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1888 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1889 1890menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1891 1892config PERF_EVENTS 1893 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1894 default y if PROFILING 1895 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1896 select IRQ_WORK 1897 select SRCU 1898 help 1899 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1900 by software and hardware. 1901 1902 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1903 use of generic tracepoints. 1904 1905 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1906 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1907 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1908 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1909 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1910 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1911 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1912 1913 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1914 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1915 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1916 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1917 capabilities on top of those. 1918 1919 Say Y if unsure. 1920 1921config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1922 default n 1923 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1924 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1925 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1926 help 1927 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1928 1929 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1930 that don't require it. 1931 1932 Say N if unsure. 1933 1934endmenu 1935 1936config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1937 default y 1938 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1939 help 1940 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1941 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1942 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1943 if VM event counters are disabled. 1944 1945config SLUB_DEBUG 1946 default y 1947 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1948 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1949 help 1950 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1951 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1952 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1953 no support for cache validation etc. 1954 1955config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1956 default n 1957 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1958 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1959 help 1960 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1961 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1962 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1963 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1964 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1965 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1966 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1967 config option determines the parameter's default value. 1968 1969config COMPAT_BRK 1970 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1971 default y 1972 help 1973 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1974 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1975 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1976 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1977 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1978 1979 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1980 1981choice 1982 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1983 default SLUB 1984 help 1985 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1986 1987config SLAB 1988 bool "SLAB" 1989 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1990 help 1991 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1992 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1993 per cpu and per node queues. 1994 1995config SLUB 1996 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1997 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1998 help 1999 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2000 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2001 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2002 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2003 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2004 a slab allocator. 2005 2006config SLOB 2007 depends on EXPERT 2008 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 2009 help 2010 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 2011 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 2012 does not perform as well on large systems. 2013 2014endchoice 2015 2016config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2017 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2018 default y 2019 help 2020 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2021 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2022 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2023 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2024 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2025 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2026 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2027 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2028 command line. 2029 2030config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2031 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2032 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2033 help 2034 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2035 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2036 allocator against heap overflows. 2037 2038config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2039 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2040 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2041 help 2042 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2043 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2044 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2045 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 2046 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 2047 CONFIG_SLUB. 2048 2049config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 2050 bool "Page allocator randomization" 2051 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 2052 help 2053 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 2054 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 2055 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 2056 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 2057 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 2058 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 2059 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 2060 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 2061 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 2062 benefits on x86. 2063 2064 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 2065 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 2066 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 2067 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 2068 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 2069 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 2070 2071 Say Y if unsure. 2072 2073config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 2074 default y 2075 depends on SLUB && SMP 2076 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 2077 help 2078 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 2079 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 2080 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 2081 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 2082 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 2083 2084config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 2085 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 2086 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 2087 default n 2088 help 2089 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 2090 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 2091 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 2092 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 2093 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 2094 then the flag will be ignored. 2095 2096 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 2097 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 2098 2099 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2100 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2101 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2102 it is normally safe to say Y here. 2103 2104 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2105 2106config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2107 def_bool n 2108 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2109 select KEYS 2110 select CRYPTO 2111 select CRYPTO_RSA 2112 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2113 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2114 select ASN1 2115 select OID_REGISTRY 2116 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2117 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 2118 help 2119 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2120 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2121 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2122 verification. 2123 2124config PROFILING 2125 bool "Profiling support" 2126 help 2127 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2128 by profilers such as OProfile. 2129 2130# 2131# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 2132# dynamically changed for a probe function. 2133# 2134config TRACEPOINTS 2135 bool 2136 2137endmenu # General setup 2138 2139source "arch/Kconfig" 2140 2141config RT_MUTEXES 2142 bool 2143 2144config BASE_SMALL 2145 int 2146 default 0 if BASE_FULL 2147 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 2148 2149config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2150 def_bool n 2151 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2152 2153menuconfig MODULES 2154 bool "Enable loadable module support" 2155 option modules 2156 help 2157 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 2158 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 2159 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 2160 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 2161 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 2162 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 2163 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 2164 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 2165 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 2166 2167 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 2168 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 2169 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 2170 this). 2171 2172 If unsure, say Y. 2173 2174if MODULES 2175 2176config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2177 bool "Forced module loading" 2178 default n 2179 help 2180 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 2181 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 2182 is usually a really bad idea. 2183 2184config MODULE_UNLOAD 2185 bool "Module unloading" 2186 help 2187 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 2188 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2189 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2190 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 2191 2192config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 2193 bool "Forced module unloading" 2194 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 2195 help 2196 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 2197 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 2198 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 2199 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 2200 If unsure, say N. 2201 2202config MODVERSIONS 2203 bool "Module versioning support" 2204 help 2205 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 2206 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 2207 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 2208 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 2209 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 2210 unsure, say N. 2211 2212config ASM_MODVERSIONS 2213 bool 2214 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 2215 help 2216 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 2217 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 2218 supports it. 2219 2220config MODULE_REL_CRCS 2221 bool 2222 depends on MODVERSIONS 2223 2224config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 2225 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 2226 help 2227 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 2228 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 2229 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 2230 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 2231 others sometimes change the module source without updating 2232 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 2233 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 2234 2235config MODULE_SIG 2236 bool "Module signature verification" 2237 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2238 help 2239 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2240 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2241 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2242 2243 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2244 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2245 library. 2246 2247 You should enable this option if you wish to use either 2248 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 2249 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 2250 of the lockdown policy. 2251 2252 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2253 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2254 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2255 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2256 2257config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2258 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2259 depends on MODULE_SIG 2260 help 2261 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2262 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2263 2264config MODULE_SIG_ALL 2265 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2266 default y 2267 depends on MODULE_SIG 2268 help 2269 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2270 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2271 2272comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2273 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2274 2275choice 2276 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2277 depends on MODULE_SIG 2278 help 2279 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2280 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2281 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2282 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2283 the signature on that module. 2284 2285config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2286 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2287 select CRYPTO_SHA1 2288 2289config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2290 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2291 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2292 2293config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2294 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2295 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2296 2297config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2298 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2299 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2300 2301config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2302 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2303 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2304 2305endchoice 2306 2307config MODULE_SIG_HASH 2308 string 2309 depends on MODULE_SIG 2310 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2311 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2312 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2313 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2314 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2315 2316config MODULE_COMPRESS 2317 bool "Compress modules on installation" 2318 help 2319 2320 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2321 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2322 2323 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2324 2325 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2326 compressed upon installation. 2327 2328 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2329 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2330 2331 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2332 2333 If in doubt, say N. 2334 2335choice 2336 prompt "Compression algorithm" 2337 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2338 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2339 help 2340 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2341 'make modules_install'. 2342 2343 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2344 2345config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2346 bool "GZIP" 2347 2348config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2349 bool "XZ" 2350 2351endchoice 2352 2353config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 2354 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 2355 help 2356 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 2357 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 2358 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 2359 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 2360 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 2361 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 2362 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 2363 2364 If unsure, say N. 2365 2366config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2367 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2368 default y if X86 2369 help 2370 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2371 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2372 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2373 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2374 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2375 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2376 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2377 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2378 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2379 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2380 your module is. 2381 2382config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2383 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2384 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2385 help 2386 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2387 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2388 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2389 many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2390 2391 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2392 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2393 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2394 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2395 2396 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2397 2398config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 2399 string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 2400 depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2401 help 2402 By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 2403 build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 2404 2405 UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 2406 exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 2407 set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 2408 one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 2409 source tree. 2410 2411endif # MODULES 2412 2413config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 2414 def_bool y 2415 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 2416 2417config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2418 bool 2419 help 2420 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2421 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2422 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2423 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2424 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2425 2426source "block/Kconfig" 2427 2428config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2429 bool 2430 2431config PADATA 2432 depends on SMP 2433 bool 2434 2435config ASN1 2436 tristate 2437 help 2438 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2439 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2440 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2441 functions to call on what tags. 2442 2443source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2444 2445config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 2446 bool 2447 2448config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2449 bool 2450 2451# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2452# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2453# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2454# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2455# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2456# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2457# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2458config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2459 def_bool n 2460