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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