1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 27 bool 28 29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30 bool 31 help 32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35 36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38 39menu "General setup" 40 41config BROKEN 42 bool 43 44config BROKEN_ON_SMP 45 bool 46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 47 default y 48 49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 50 int 51 default 32 if !UML 52 default 128 if UML 53 help 54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 56 57 58config CROSS_COMPILE 59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 60 help 61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 65 66config COMPILE_TEST 67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68 depends on !UML 69 default n 70 help 71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 75 drivers to compile-test them. 76 77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 79 drivers to be distributed. 80 81config LOCALVERSION 82 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 83 help 84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 85 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 89 be a maximum of 64 characters. 90 91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93 default y 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95 help 96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 98 top of tree revision. 99 100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104 105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 106 by running the command: 107 108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 109 110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111 112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 113 bool 114 115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 116 bool 117 118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 119 bool 120 121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 122 bool 123 124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 125 bool 126 127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128 bool 129 130choice 131 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 132 default KERNEL_GZIP 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 134 help 135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 140 141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 144 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 145 146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 148 size matters less. 149 150 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 151 152config KERNEL_GZIP 153 bool "Gzip" 154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 155 help 156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 157 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 158 159config KERNEL_BZIP2 160 bool "Bzip2" 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 162 help 163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 168 169config KERNEL_LZMA 170 bool "LZMA" 171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 172 help 173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 176 177config KERNEL_XZ 178 bool "XZ" 179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 180 help 181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 187 188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 190 and LZO. Compression is slow. 191 192config KERNEL_LZO 193 bool "LZO" 194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 195 help 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 199 200config KERNEL_LZ4 201 bool "LZ4" 202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203 help 204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207 208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210 faster than LZO. 211 212endchoice 213 214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215 string "Default hostname" 216 default "(none)" 217 help 218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221 system more usable with less configuration. 222 223config SWAP 224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK 226 default y 227 help 228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 231 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 232 233config SYSVIPC 234 bool "System V IPC" 235 ---help--- 236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 242 you'll need to say Y here. 243 244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 247 248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249 bool 250 depends on SYSVIPC 251 depends on SYSCTL 252 default y 253 254config POSIX_MQUEUE 255 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 256 depends on NET 257 ---help--- 258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 263 264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 266 operations on message queues. 267 268 If unsure, say Y. 269 270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271 bool 272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273 depends on SYSCTL 274 default y 275 276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278 depends on MMU 279 default y 280 help 281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284 See the man page for more details. 285 286config FHANDLE 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 288 select EXPORTFS 289 default y 290 help 291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 297 syscalls. 298 299config USELIB 300 bool "uselib syscall" 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 302 help 303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 307 running glibc can safely disable this. 308 309config AUDIT 310 bool "Auditing support" 311 depends on NET 312 help 313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 316 on architectures which support it. 317 318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 319 bool 320 321config AUDITSYSCALL 322 def_bool y 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 324 325config AUDIT_WATCH 326 def_bool y 327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328 select FSNOTIFY 329 330config AUDIT_TREE 331 def_bool y 332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 333 select FSNOTIFY 334 335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 336source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 337 338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 339 340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341 bool 342 343choice 344 prompt "Cputime accounting" 345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 347 348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 352 help 353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 355 granularity. 356 357 If unsure, say Y. 358 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363 help 364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 370 systems. 371 372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 378 help 379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 383 overhead. 384 385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 386 dynticks subsystem development. 387 388 If unsure, say N. 389 390endchoice 391 392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 395 help 396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 399 small performance impact. 400 401 If in doubt, say N here. 402 403config SCHED_WALT 404 bool "Support window based load tracking" 405 depends on SMP 406 help 407 This feature will allow the scheduler to maintain a tunable window 408 based set of metrics for tasks and runqueues. These metrics can be 409 used to guide task placement as well as task frequency requirements 410 for cpufreq governors. 411 412config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 413 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 414 depends on MULTIUSER 415 help 416 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 417 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 418 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 419 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 420 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 421 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 422 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 423 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 424 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 425 426config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 427 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 428 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 429 default n 430 help 431 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 432 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 433 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 434 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 435 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 436 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 437 438config TASKSTATS 439 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 440 depends on NET 441 depends on MULTIUSER 442 default n 443 help 444 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 445 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 446 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 447 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 448 space on task exit. 449 450 Say N if unsure. 451 452config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 453 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 454 depends on TASKSTATS 455 select SCHED_INFO 456 help 457 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 458 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 459 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 460 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 461 462 Say N if unsure. 463 464config TASK_XACCT 465 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 466 depends on TASKSTATS 467 help 468 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 469 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 470 471 Say N if unsure. 472 473config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 474 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 475 depends on TASK_XACCT 476 help 477 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 478 task has caused. 479 480 Say N if unsure. 481 482config PSI 483 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 484 help 485 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 486 and IO capacity are in the system. 487 488 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 489 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 490 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 491 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 492 493 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 494 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 495 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 496 497 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 498 499 Say N if unsure. 500 501config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 502 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 503 default n 504 depends on PSI 505 help 506 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 507 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 508 kernel commandline during boot. 509 510 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 511 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 512 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 513 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 514 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 515 516 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 517 used for, say Y. 518 519 Say N if unsure. 520 521endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 522 523source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 524 525config BUILD_BIN2C 526 bool 527 default n 528 529config IKCONFIG 530 tristate "Kernel .config support" 531 select BUILD_BIN2C 532 ---help--- 533 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 534 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 535 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 536 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 537 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 538 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 539 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 540 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 541 542config IKCONFIG_PROC 543 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 544 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 545 ---help--- 546 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 547 through /proc/config.gz. 548 549config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 550 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 551 range 12 25 552 default 17 553 depends on PRINTK 554 help 555 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 556 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 557 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 558 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 559 560 Examples: 561 17 => 128 KB 562 16 => 64 KB 563 15 => 32 KB 564 14 => 16 KB 565 13 => 8 KB 566 12 => 4 KB 567 568config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 569 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 570 depends on SMP 571 range 0 21 572 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 573 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 574 depends on PRINTK 575 help 576 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 577 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 578 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 579 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 580 e.g. backtraces. 581 582 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 583 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 584 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 585 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 586 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 587 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 588 589 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 590 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 591 592 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 593 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 594 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 595 596 Examples shift values and their meaning: 597 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 598 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 599 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 600 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 601 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 602 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 603 604config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 605 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 606 range 10 21 607 default 13 608 depends on PRINTK 609 help 610 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 611 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 612 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 613 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 614 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 615 616 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 617 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 618 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 619 620 Examples: 621 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 622 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 623 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 624 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 625 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 626 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 627 628# 629# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 630# 631config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 632 bool 633 634config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 635 bool 636 637menu "FAIR Scheuler tunables" 638 639choice 640 prompt "Utilization's PELT half-Life" 641 default PELT_UTIL_HALFLIFE_32 642 help 643 Allows choosing one of the possible values for the PELT half-life to 644 be used for the update of the utilization of tasks and CPUs. 645 The half-life is the amount of [ms] required by the PELT signal to 646 build up to 50% utilization. The higher the half-life the longer it 647 takes for a task to be represented as a big one. 648 649 If not sure, use the default of 32 ms. 650 651config PELT_UTIL_HALFLIFE_32 652 bool "32 ms, default for server" 653 654config PELT_UTIL_HALFLIFE_16 655 bool "16 ms, suggested for interactive workloads" 656 help 657 Use 16ms as PELT half-life value. This will increase the ramp-up and 658 decay of utlization and load twice as fast as for the default 659 configuration using 32ms. 660 661config PELT_UTIL_HALFLIFE_8 662 bool "8 ms, very fast" 663 help 664 Use 8ms as PELT half-life value. This will increase the ramp-up and 665 decay of utlization and load four time as fast as for the default 666 configuration using 32ms. 667 668endchoice 669 670endmenu # FAIR Scheduler tunables" 671 672# 673# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 674# balancing logic: 675# 676config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 677 bool 678 679# 680# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 681# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 682# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 683# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 684# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 685# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 686config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 687 bool 688 689# 690# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 691# 692config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 693 bool 694 695# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 696# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 697# 698config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 699 bool 700 701config NUMA_BALANCING 702 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 703 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 704 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 705 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 706 help 707 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 708 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 709 it has references to the node the task is running on. 710 711 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 712 713config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 714 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 715 default y 716 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 717 help 718 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 719 machine. 720 721menuconfig CGROUPS 722 bool "Control Group support" 723 select KERNFS 724 help 725 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 726 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 727 controls or device isolation. 728 See 729 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 730 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 731 and resource control) 732 733 Say N if unsure. 734 735if CGROUPS 736 737config PAGE_COUNTER 738 bool 739 740config MEMCG 741 bool "Memory controller" 742 select PAGE_COUNTER 743 select EVENTFD 744 help 745 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 746 747config MEMCG_SWAP 748 bool "Swap controller" 749 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 750 help 751 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 752 753config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 754 bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 755 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 756 default y 757 help 758 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 759 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 760 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 761 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 762 parameter should have this option unselected. 763 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 764 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 765 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 766 767config BLK_CGROUP 768 bool "IO controller" 769 depends on BLOCK 770 default n 771 ---help--- 772 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 773 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 774 policies. 775 776 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 777 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 778 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 779 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 780 781 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 782 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 783 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 784 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 785 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 786 787 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 788 789config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 790 bool "IO controller debugging" 791 depends on BLK_CGROUP 792 default n 793 ---help--- 794 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 795 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 796 797config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 798 bool 799 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 800 default y 801 802menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 803 bool "CPU controller" 804 default n 805 help 806 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 807 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 808 tasks. 809 810if CGROUP_SCHED 811config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 812 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 813 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 814 default CGROUP_SCHED 815 816config CFS_BANDWIDTH 817 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 818 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 819 depends on !SCHED_WALT 820 default n 821 help 822 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 823 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 824 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 825 restriction. 826 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 827 828config RT_GROUP_SCHED 829 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 830 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 831 default n 832 help 833 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 834 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 835 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 836 realtime bandwidth for them. 837 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 838 839endif #CGROUP_SCHED 840 841config CGROUP_PIDS 842 bool "PIDs controller" 843 help 844 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 845 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 846 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 847 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 848 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 849 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 850 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 851 852 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 853 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 854 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 855 attach to a cgroup. 856 857config CGROUP_RDMA 858 bool "RDMA controller" 859 help 860 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 861 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 862 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 863 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 864 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 865 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 866 867config CGROUP_FREEZER 868 bool "Freezer controller" 869 help 870 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 871 cgroup. 872 873 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 874 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 875 876 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 877 878config CGROUP_HUGETLB 879 bool "HugeTLB controller" 880 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 881 select PAGE_COUNTER 882 default n 883 help 884 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 885 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 886 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 887 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 888 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 889 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 890 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 891 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 892 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 893 894config CPUSETS 895 bool "Cpuset controller" 896 depends on SMP 897 help 898 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 899 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 900 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 901 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 902 903 Say N if unsure. 904 905config PROC_PID_CPUSET 906 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 907 depends on CPUSETS 908 default y 909 910config CGROUP_DEVICE 911 bool "Device controller" 912 help 913 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 914 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 915 916config CGROUP_CPUACCT 917 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 918 help 919 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 920 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 921 922config CGROUP_PERF 923 bool "Perf controller" 924 depends on PERF_EVENTS 925 help 926 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 927 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 928 designated cpu. 929 930 Say N if unsure. 931 932config CGROUP_BPF 933 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 934 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 935 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 936 help 937 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 938 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 939 940 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 941 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 942 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 943 inet sockets. 944 945config CGROUP_DEBUG 946 bool "Debug controller" 947 default n 948 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 949 help 950 This option enables a simple controller that exports 951 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 952 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 953 interfaces are not stable. 954 955 Say N. 956 957config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 958 bool 959 default n 960 961endif # CGROUPS 962 963config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 964 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 965 select PROC_CHILDREN 966 default n 967 help 968 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 969 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 970 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 971 entries. 972 973 If unsure, say N here. 974 975menuconfig NAMESPACES 976 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 977 depends on MULTIUSER 978 default !EXPERT 979 help 980 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 981 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 982 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 983 different namespaces. 984 985if NAMESPACES 986 987config UTS_NS 988 bool "UTS namespace" 989 default y 990 help 991 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 992 uname() system call 993 994config IPC_NS 995 bool "IPC namespace" 996 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 997 default y 998 help 999 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1000 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1001 1002config USER_NS 1003 bool "User namespace" 1004 default n 1005 help 1006 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1007 to provide different user info for different servers. 1008 1009 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1010 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1011 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1012 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1013 1014 If unsure, say N. 1015 1016config PID_NS 1017 bool "PID Namespaces" 1018 default y 1019 help 1020 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1021 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1022 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1023 1024config NET_NS 1025 bool "Network namespace" 1026 depends on NET 1027 default y 1028 help 1029 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1030 of the network stack. 1031 1032endif # NAMESPACES 1033 1034config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1035 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1036 select CGROUPS 1037 select CGROUP_SCHED 1038 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1039 help 1040 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1041 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1042 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1043 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1044 upon task session. 1045 1046config SCHED_TUNE 1047 bool "Boosting for CFS tasks (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1048 depends on SMP 1049 help 1050 This option enables support for task classification using a new 1051 cgroup controller, schedtune. Schedtune allows tasks to be given 1052 a boost value and marked as latency-sensitive or not. This option 1053 provides the "schedtune" controller. 1054 1055 This new controller: 1056 1. allows only a two layers hierarchy, where the root defines the 1057 system-wide boost value and its direct childrens define each one a 1058 different "class of tasks" to be boosted with a different value 1059 2. supports up to 16 different task classes, each one which could be 1060 configured with a different boost value 1061 1062 Latency-sensitive tasks are not subject to energy-aware wakeup 1063 task placement. The boost value assigned to tasks is used to 1064 influence task placement and CPU frequency selection (if 1065 utilization-driven frequency selection is in use). 1066 1067 If unsure, say N. 1068 1069config DEFAULT_USE_ENERGY_AWARE 1070 bool "Default to enabling the Energy Aware Scheduler feature" 1071 default n 1072 help 1073 This option defaults the ENERGY_AWARE scheduling feature to true, 1074 as without SCHED_DEBUG set this feature can't be enabled or disabled 1075 via sysctl. 1076 1077 Say N if unsure. 1078 1079config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1080 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1081 depends on SYSFS 1082 default n 1083 help 1084 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1085 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1086 /sys/block/. 1087 1088 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1089 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1090 1091 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1092 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1093 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1094 1095 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1096 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1097 option enabled. 1098 1099 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1100 need to say Y here. 1101 1102config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1103 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1104 default n 1105 depends on SYSFS 1106 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1107 help 1108 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1109 1110 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1111 option. 1112 1113 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1114 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1115 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1116 1117config RELAY 1118 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1119 select IRQ_WORK 1120 help 1121 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1122 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1123 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1124 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1125 user space. 1126 1127 If unsure, say N. 1128 1129config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1130 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1131 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1132 help 1133 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1134 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1135 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1136 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1137 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1138 1139 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1140 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1141 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1142 1143 If unsure say Y. 1144 1145if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1146 1147source "usr/Kconfig" 1148 1149endif 1150 1151choice 1152 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1153 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1154 1155config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1156 bool "Optimize for performance" 1157 help 1158 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1159 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1160 helpful compile-time warnings. 1161 1162config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1163 bool "Optimize for size" 1164 help 1165 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 1166 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1167 1168 If unsure, say N. 1169 1170endchoice 1171 1172config SYSCTL 1173 bool 1174 1175config ANON_INODES 1176 bool 1177 1178config HAVE_UID16 1179 bool 1180 1181config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1182 bool 1183 help 1184 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1185 1186config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1187 bool 1188 help 1189 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1190 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1191 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1192 1193config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1194 bool 1195 help 1196 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1197 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1198 the unaligned access emulation. 1199 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1200 1201config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1202 bool 1203 1204# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1205config BPF 1206 bool 1207 1208menuconfig EXPERT 1209 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1210 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1211 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1212 help 1213 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1214 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1215 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1216 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1217 1218config UID16 1219 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1220 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1224 1225config MULTIUSER 1226 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1227 default y 1228 help 1229 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1230 capabilities. 1231 1232 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1233 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1234 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1235 setgid, and capset. 1236 1237 If unsure, say Y here. 1238 1239config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1240 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1241 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1242 ---help--- 1243 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1244 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1245 architectures. 1246 1247 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1248 1249config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1250 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1251 default y 1252 ---help--- 1253 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1254 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1255 compatibility with some systems. 1256 1257 If unsure say Y here. 1258 1259config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1260 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1261 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1262 default n 1263 select SYSCTL 1264 ---help--- 1265 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1266 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1267 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1268 information. 1269 1270 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1271 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1272 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1273 1274 If unsure say N here. 1275 1276config POSIX_TIMERS 1277 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1278 default y 1279 help 1280 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1281 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1282 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1283 1284 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1285 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1286 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1287 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1288 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1289 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1290 1291 If unsure say y. 1292 1293config KALLSYMS 1294 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1295 default y 1296 help 1297 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1298 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1299 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1300 1301config KALLSYMS_ALL 1302 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1304 help 1305 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1306 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1307 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1308 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1309 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1310 1311 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1312 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1313 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1314 something like this). 1315 1316 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1317 1318config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1319 bool 1320 depends on KALLSYMS 1321 default X86_64 && SMP 1322 1323config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1324 bool 1325 depends on KALLSYMS 1326 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 1327 help 1328 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1329 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1330 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1331 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1332 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1333 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1334 address encountered in the image. 1335 1336 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1337 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1338 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1339 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1340 1341config PRINTK 1342 default y 1343 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1344 select IRQ_WORK 1345 help 1346 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1347 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1348 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1349 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1350 strongly discouraged. 1351 1352config PRINTK_NMI 1353 def_bool y 1354 depends on PRINTK 1355 depends on HAVE_NMI 1356 1357config BUG 1358 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1359 default y 1360 help 1361 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1362 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1363 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1364 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1365 Just say Y. 1366 1367config ELF_CORE 1368 depends on COREDUMP 1369 default y 1370 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1371 help 1372 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1373 1374 1375config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1376 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1377 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1378 select I8253_LOCK 1379 default y 1380 help 1381 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1382 support, saving some memory. 1383 1384config BASE_FULL 1385 default y 1386 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1387 help 1388 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1389 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1390 but may reduce performance. 1391 1392config FUTEX 1393 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1394 default y 1395 imply RT_MUTEXES 1396 help 1397 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1398 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1399 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1400 1401config FUTEX_PI 1402 bool 1403 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1404 default y 1405 1406config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1407 bool 1408 depends on FUTEX 1409 help 1410 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1411 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1412 checks. 1413 1414config EPOLL 1415 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1416 default y 1417 select ANON_INODES 1418 help 1419 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1420 support for epoll family of system calls. 1421 1422config SIGNALFD 1423 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1424 select ANON_INODES 1425 default y 1426 help 1427 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1428 on a file descriptor. 1429 1430 If unsure, say Y. 1431 1432config TIMERFD 1433 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1434 select ANON_INODES 1435 default y 1436 help 1437 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1438 events on a file descriptor. 1439 1440 If unsure, say Y. 1441 1442config EVENTFD 1443 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1444 select ANON_INODES 1445 default y 1446 help 1447 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1448 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1449 1450 If unsure, say Y. 1451 1452# syscall, maps, verifier 1453config BPF_SYSCALL 1454 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1455 select ANON_INODES 1456 select BPF 1457 default n 1458 help 1459 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1460 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1461 1462config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1463 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1464 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1465 help 1466 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1467 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1468 1469config SHMEM 1470 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1471 default y 1472 depends on MMU 1473 help 1474 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1475 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1476 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1477 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1478 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1479 1480config AIO 1481 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1482 default y 1483 help 1484 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1485 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1486 this option saves about 7k. 1487 1488config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1489 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1490 default y 1491 help 1492 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1493 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1494 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1495 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1496 space. 1497 1498config USERFAULTFD 1499 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1500 select ANON_INODES 1501 depends on MMU 1502 help 1503 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1504 handle page faults in userland. 1505 1506config PCI_QUIRKS 1507 default y 1508 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1509 depends on PCI 1510 help 1511 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1512 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1513 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1514 1515config MEMBARRIER 1516 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1517 default y 1518 help 1519 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1520 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1521 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1522 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1523 compiler barrier. 1524 1525 If unsure, say Y. 1526 1527config EMBEDDED 1528 bool "Embedded system" 1529 option allnoconfig_y 1530 select EXPERT 1531 help 1532 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1533 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1534 for configuration. 1535 1536config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1537 bool 1538 help 1539 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1540 1541config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1542 bool 1543 help 1544 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1545 1546config PC104 1547 bool "PC/104 support" 1548 help 1549 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1550 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1551 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1552 1553menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1554 1555config PERF_EVENTS 1556 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1557 default y if PROFILING 1558 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1559 select ANON_INODES 1560 select IRQ_WORK 1561 select SRCU 1562 help 1563 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1564 by software and hardware. 1565 1566 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1567 use of generic tracepoints. 1568 1569 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1570 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1571 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1572 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1573 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1574 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1575 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1576 1577 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1578 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1579 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1580 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1581 capabilities on top of those. 1582 1583 Say Y if unsure. 1584 1585config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1586 default n 1587 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1588 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1589 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1590 help 1591 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1592 1593 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1594 that don't require it. 1595 1596 Say N if unsure. 1597 1598endmenu 1599 1600config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1601 default y 1602 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1603 help 1604 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1605 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1606 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1607 if VM event counters are disabled. 1608 1609config SLUB_DEBUG 1610 default y 1611 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1612 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1613 help 1614 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1615 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1616 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1617 no support for cache validation etc. 1618 1619config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1620 default n 1621 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1622 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1623 help 1624 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1625 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1626 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1627 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1628 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1629 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1630 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1631 config option determines the parameter's default value. 1632 1633config COMPAT_BRK 1634 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1635 default y 1636 help 1637 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1638 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1639 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1640 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1641 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1642 1643 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1644 1645choice 1646 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1647 default SLUB 1648 help 1649 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1650 1651config SLAB 1652 bool "SLAB" 1653 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1654 help 1655 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1656 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1657 per cpu and per node queues. 1658 1659config SLUB 1660 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1661 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1662 help 1663 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1664 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1665 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1666 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1667 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1668 a slab allocator. 1669 1670config SLOB 1671 depends on EXPERT 1672 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1673 help 1674 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1675 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1676 does not perform as well on large systems. 1677 1678endchoice 1679 1680config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 1681 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 1682 default y 1683 help 1684 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 1685 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 1686 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 1687 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 1688 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 1689 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 1690 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 1691 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 1692 command line. 1693 1694config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1695 default n 1696 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1697 bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1698 help 1699 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1700 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1701 allocator against heap overflows. 1702 1703config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 1704 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 1705 depends on SLUB 1706 help 1707 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 1708 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 1709 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 1710 freelist exploit methods. 1711 1712config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1713 default y 1714 depends on SLUB && SMP 1715 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1716 help 1717 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1718 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1719 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1720 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1721 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1722 1723config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1724 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1725 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1726 default n 1727 help 1728 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1729 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1730 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1731 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1732 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1733 then the flag will be ignored. 1734 1735 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1736 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1737 1738 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1739 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1740 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1741 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1742 1743 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1744 1745config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1746 def_bool n 1747 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1748 select KEYS 1749 select CRYPTO 1750 select CRYPTO_RSA 1751 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1752 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1753 select ASN1 1754 select OID_REGISTRY 1755 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1756 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1757 help 1758 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1759 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1760 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1761 verification. 1762 1763config PROFILING 1764 bool "Profiling support" 1765 help 1766 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1767 by profilers such as OProfile. 1768 1769# 1770# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1771# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1772# 1773config TRACEPOINTS 1774 bool 1775 1776source "arch/Kconfig" 1777 1778endmenu # General setup 1779 1780config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1781 bool 1782 default n 1783 1784config SLABINFO 1785 bool 1786 depends on PROC_FS 1787 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1788 default y 1789 1790config RT_MUTEXES 1791 bool 1792 1793config BASE_SMALL 1794 int 1795 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1796 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1797 1798menuconfig MODULES 1799 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1800 option modules 1801 help 1802 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1803 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1804 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1805 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1806 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1807 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1808 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1809 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1810 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1811 1812 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1813 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1814 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1815 this). 1816 1817 If unsure, say Y. 1818 1819if MODULES 1820 1821config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1822 bool "Forced module loading" 1823 default n 1824 help 1825 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1826 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1827 is usually a really bad idea. 1828 1829config MODULE_UNLOAD 1830 bool "Module unloading" 1831 help 1832 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1833 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1834 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1835 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1836 1837config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1838 bool "Forced module unloading" 1839 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1840 help 1841 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1842 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1843 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1844 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1845 If unsure, say N. 1846 1847config MODVERSIONS 1848 bool "Module versioning support" 1849 help 1850 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1851 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1852 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1853 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1854 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1855 unsure, say N. 1856 1857config MODULE_REL_CRCS 1858 bool 1859 depends on MODVERSIONS 1860 1861config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1862 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1863 help 1864 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1865 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1866 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1867 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1868 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1869 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1870 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1871 1872config MODULE_SIG 1873 bool "Module signature verification" 1874 depends on MODULES 1875 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1876 help 1877 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1878 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1879 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1880 1881 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1882 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1883 library. 1884 1885 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1886 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1887 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1888 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1889 1890config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1891 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1892 depends on MODULE_SIG 1893 help 1894 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1895 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1896 1897config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1898 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1899 default y 1900 depends on MODULE_SIG 1901 help 1902 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1903 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1904 1905comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1906 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1907 1908choice 1909 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1910 depends on MODULE_SIG 1911 help 1912 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1913 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1914 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1915 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1916 the signature on that module. 1917 1918config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1919 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1920 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1921 1922config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1923 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1924 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1925 1926config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1927 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1928 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1929 1930config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1931 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1932 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1933 1934config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1935 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1936 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1937 1938endchoice 1939 1940config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1941 string 1942 depends on MODULE_SIG 1943 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1944 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1945 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1946 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1947 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1948 1949config MODULE_COMPRESS 1950 bool "Compress modules on installation" 1951 depends on MODULES 1952 help 1953 1954 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1955 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1956 1957 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1958 1959 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1960 compressed upon installation. 1961 1962 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1963 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1964 1965 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1966 1967 If in doubt, say N. 1968 1969choice 1970 prompt "Compression algorithm" 1971 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1972 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1973 help 1974 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1975 'make modules_install'. 1976 1977 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1978 1979config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1980 bool "GZIP" 1981 1982config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1983 bool "XZ" 1984 1985endchoice 1986 1987config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1988 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1989 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1990 help 1991 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1992 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1993 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1994 many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1995 1996 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1997 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1998 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1999 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2000 2001 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2002 2003endif # MODULES 2004 2005config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 2006 def_bool y 2007 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 2008 2009config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2010 bool 2011 help 2012 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2013 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2014 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2015 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2016 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2017 2018source "block/Kconfig" 2019 2020config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2021 bool 2022 2023config PADATA 2024 depends on SMP 2025 bool 2026 2027config ASN1 2028 tristate 2029 help 2030 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2031 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2032 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2033 functions to call on what tags. 2034 2035source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2036