1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config CC_VERSION_TEXT 3 string 4 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 5 help 6 This is used in unclear ways: 7 8 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 9 The 'default' property references the environment variable, 10 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 11 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 12 13 - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14 include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 15 line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16 auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17 will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 18 19config CC_IS_GCC 20 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21 22config GCC_VERSION 23 int 24 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25 default 0 26 27config CC_IS_CLANG 28 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29 30config CLANG_VERSION 31 int 32 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33 default 0 34 35config AS_IS_GNU 36 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37 38config AS_IS_LLVM 39 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40 41config AS_VERSION 42 int 43 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45 default $(as-version) 46 47config LD_IS_BFD 48 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 49 50config LD_VERSION 51 int 52 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 53 default 0 54 55config LD_IS_LLD 56 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57 58config LLD_VERSION 59 int 60 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 61 default 0 62 63config RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 64 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 65 help 66 This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 67 68 Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69 to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 70 71 In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 72 why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 73 74config CC_CAN_LINK 75 bool 76 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 78 79config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80 bool 81 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83 84config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85 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) 86 87config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 88 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 89 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90 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) 91 92config GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND 93 bool 94 depends on CC_IS_GCC && CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 95 # Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96 # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97 default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 98 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 99 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 100 101config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 102 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 103 104config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 105 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 106 107config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 108 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 109 110config PAHOLE_VERSION 111 int 112 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 113 114config CONSTRUCTORS 115 bool 116 117config IRQ_WORK 118 bool 119 120config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 121 bool 122 123config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 124 bool 125 help 126 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 127 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 128 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 129 130 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 131 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 132 133menu "General setup" 134 135config BROKEN 136 bool 137 138config BROKEN_ON_SMP 139 bool 140 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 141 default y 142 143config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 144 int 145 default 32 if !UML 146 default 128 if UML 147 help 148 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 149 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 150 151config COMPILE_TEST 152 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 153 depends on HAS_IOMEM 154 help 155 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 156 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 157 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 158 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 159 drivers to compile-test them. 160 161 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 162 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 163 drivers to be distributed. 164 165config WERROR 166 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 167 default y 168 help 169 A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 170 enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 171 to enforce that rule by default. 172 173 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 174 unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 175 you may need to disable this config option in order to 176 successfully build the kernel. 177 178 If in doubt, say Y. 179 180config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 181 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 182 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 183 help 184 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 185 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 186 187 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 188 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 189 190config LOCALVERSION 191 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 192 help 193 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 194 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 195 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 196 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 197 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 198 be a maximum of 64 characters. 199 200config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 201 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 202 default y 203 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 204 help 205 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 206 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 207 top of tree revision. 208 209 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 210 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 211 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 212 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 213 214 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 215 by running the command: 216 217 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 218 219 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 220 221config BUILD_SALT 222 string "Build ID Salt" 223 default "" 224 help 225 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 226 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 227 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 228 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 229 230config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 231 bool 232 233config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 234 bool 235 236config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 237 bool 238 239config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 240 bool 241 242config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 243 bool 244 245config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 246 bool 247 248config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 249 bool 250 251config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 252 bool 253 254choice 255 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 256 default KERNEL_GZIP 257 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 258 help 259 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 260 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 261 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 262 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 263 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 264 265 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 266 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 267 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 268 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 269 270 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 271 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 272 size matters less. 273 274 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 275 276config KERNEL_GZIP 277 bool "Gzip" 278 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 279 help 280 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 281 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 282 283config KERNEL_BZIP2 284 bool "Bzip2" 285 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 286 help 287 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 288 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 289 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 290 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 291 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 292 293config KERNEL_LZMA 294 bool "LZMA" 295 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 296 help 297 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 298 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 299 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 300 301config KERNEL_XZ 302 bool "XZ" 303 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 304 help 305 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 306 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 307 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 308 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 309 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 310 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 311 312 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 313 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 314 and LZO. Compression is slow. 315 316config KERNEL_LZO 317 bool "LZO" 318 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 319 help 320 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 321 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 322 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 323 324config KERNEL_LZ4 325 bool "LZ4" 326 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 327 help 328 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 329 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 330 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 331 332 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 333 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 334 faster than LZO. 335 336config KERNEL_ZSTD 337 bool "ZSTD" 338 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 339 help 340 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 341 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 342 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 343 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 344 line tool is required for compression. 345 346config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 347 bool "None" 348 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 349 help 350 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 351 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 352 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 353 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 354 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 355 356endchoice 357 358config DEFAULT_INIT 359 string "Default init path" 360 default "" 361 help 362 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 363 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 364 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 365 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 366 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 367 368config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 369 string "Default hostname" 370 default "(none)" 371 help 372 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 373 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 374 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 375 system more usable with less configuration. 376 377config SYSVIPC 378 bool "System V IPC" 379 help 380 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 381 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 382 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 383 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 384 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 385 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 386 you'll need to say Y here. 387 388 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 389 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 390 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 391 392config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 393 bool 394 depends on SYSVIPC 395 depends on SYSCTL 396 default y 397 398config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 399 def_bool y 400 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 401 402config POSIX_MQUEUE 403 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 404 depends on NET 405 help 406 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 407 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 408 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 409 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 410 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 411 412 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 413 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 414 operations on message queues. 415 416 If unsure, say Y. 417 418config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 419 bool 420 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 421 depends on SYSCTL 422 default y 423 424config WATCH_QUEUE 425 bool "General notification queue" 426 default n 427 help 428 429 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 430 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 431 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 432 notifications. 433 434 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 435 436config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 437 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 438 depends on MMU 439 default y 440 help 441 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 442 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 443 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 444 See the man page for more details. 445 446config USELIB 447 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 448 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 449 help 450 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 451 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 452 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 453 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 454 running glibc can safely disable this. 455 456config AUDIT 457 bool "Auditing support" 458 depends on NET 459 help 460 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 461 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 462 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 463 on architectures which support it. 464 465config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 466 bool 467 468config AUDITSYSCALL 469 def_bool y 470 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 471 select FSNOTIFY 472 473source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 474source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 475source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 476source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 477 478menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 479 480config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 481 bool 482 483choice 484 prompt "Cputime accounting" 485 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 486 487# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 488config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 489 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 490 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 491 help 492 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 493 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 494 granularity. 495 496 If unsure, say Y. 497 498config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 499 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 500 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 501 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 502 help 503 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 504 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 505 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 506 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 507 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 508 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 509 systems. 510 511config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 512 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 513 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 514 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 515 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 516 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 517 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 518 help 519 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 520 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 521 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 522 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 523 overhead. 524 525 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 526 dynticks subsystem development. 527 528 If unsure, say N. 529 530endchoice 531 532config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 533 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 534 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 535 help 536 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 537 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 538 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 539 small performance impact. 540 541 If in doubt, say N here. 542 543config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 544 def_bool y 545 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 546 depends on SMP 547 548config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 549 bool 550 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 551 default y if ARM64 552 depends on SMP 553 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 554 help 555 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 556 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 557 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 558 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 559 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 560 561 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 562 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 563 564 This requires the architecture to implement 565 arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 566 567config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 568 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 569 depends on MULTIUSER 570 help 571 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 572 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 573 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 574 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 575 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 576 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 577 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 578 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 579 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 580 581config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 582 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 583 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 584 default n 585 help 586 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 587 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 588 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 589 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 590 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 591 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 592 593config TASKSTATS 594 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 595 depends on NET 596 depends on MULTIUSER 597 default n 598 help 599 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 600 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 601 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 602 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 603 space on task exit. 604 605 Say N if unsure. 606 607config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 608 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 609 depends on TASKSTATS 610 select SCHED_INFO 611 help 612 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 613 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 614 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 615 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 616 617 Say N if unsure. 618 619config TASK_XACCT 620 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 621 depends on TASKSTATS 622 help 623 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 624 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 625 626 Say N if unsure. 627 628config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 629 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 630 depends on TASK_XACCT 631 help 632 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 633 task has caused. 634 635 Say N if unsure. 636 637config PSI 638 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 639 select KERNFS 640 help 641 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 642 and IO capacity are in the system. 643 644 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 645 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 646 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 647 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 648 649 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 650 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 651 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 652 653 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 654 655 Say N if unsure. 656 657config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 658 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 659 default n 660 depends on PSI 661 help 662 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 663 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 664 kernel commandline during boot. 665 666 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 667 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 668 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 669 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 670 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 671 672 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 673 used for, say Y. 674 675 Say N if unsure. 676 677endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 678 679config CPU_ISOLATION 680 bool "CPU isolation" 681 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 682 default y 683 help 684 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 685 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 686 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 687 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 688 689 Say Y if unsure. 690 691source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 692 693config BUILD_BIN2C 694 bool 695 default n 696 697config IKCONFIG 698 tristate "Kernel .config support" 699 help 700 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 701 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 702 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 703 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 704 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 705 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 706 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 707 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 708 709config IKCONFIG_PROC 710 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 711 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 712 help 713 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 714 through /proc/config.gz. 715 716config IKHEADERS 717 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 718 depends on SYSFS 719 help 720 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 721 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 722 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 723 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 724 725config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 726 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 727 range 12 25 728 default 17 729 depends on PRINTK 730 help 731 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 732 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 733 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 734 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 735 736 Examples: 737 17 => 128 KB 738 16 => 64 KB 739 15 => 32 KB 740 14 => 16 KB 741 13 => 8 KB 742 12 => 4 KB 743 744config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 745 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 746 depends on SMP 747 range 0 21 748 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 749 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 750 depends on PRINTK 751 help 752 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 753 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 754 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 755 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 756 e.g. backtraces. 757 758 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 759 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 760 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 761 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 762 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 763 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 764 765 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 766 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 767 768 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 769 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 770 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 771 772 Examples shift values and their meaning: 773 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 774 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 775 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 776 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 777 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 778 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 779 780config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 781 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 782 range 10 21 783 default 13 784 depends on PRINTK 785 help 786 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 787 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 788 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 789 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 790 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 791 792 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 793 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 794 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 795 796 Examples: 797 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 798 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 799 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 800 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 801 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 802 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 803 804config PRINTK_INDEX 805 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 806 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 807 help 808 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 809 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 810 811 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 812 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 813 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 814 changed or no longer present. 815 816 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 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 878endmenu 879 880# 881# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 882# balancing logic: 883# 884config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 885 bool 886 887# 888# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 889# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 890# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 891# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 892# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 893# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 894config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 895 bool 896 897config CC_HAS_INT128 898 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 899 900config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 901 string 902 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 903 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 904 905# Currently, disable gcc-11+ array-bounds globally. 906# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 907config GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 908 def_bool y 909 910config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 911 bool 912 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 913 914# 915# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 916# 917config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 918 bool 919 920# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 921# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 922# 923config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 924 bool 925 926config NUMA_BALANCING 927 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 928 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 929 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 930 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 931 help 932 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 933 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 934 it has references to the node the task is running on. 935 936 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 937 938config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 939 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 940 default y 941 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 942 help 943 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 944 machine. 945 946menuconfig CGROUPS 947 bool "Control Group support" 948 select KERNFS 949 help 950 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 951 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 952 controls or device isolation. 953 See 954 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 955 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 956 and resource control) 957 958 Say N if unsure. 959 960if CGROUPS 961 962config PAGE_COUNTER 963 bool 964 965config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 966 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 967 help 968 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 969 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 970 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 971 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 972 973 Say N if unsure. 974 975config MEMCG 976 bool "Memory controller" 977 select PAGE_COUNTER 978 select EVENTFD 979 help 980 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 981 982config MEMCG_KMEM 983 bool 984 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 985 default y 986 987config BLK_CGROUP 988 bool "IO controller" 989 depends on BLOCK 990 default n 991 help 992 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 993 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 994 policies. 995 996 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 997 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 998 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 999 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1000 1001 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1002 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1003 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1004 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1005 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1006 1007 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1008 1009config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1010 bool 1011 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1012 default y 1013 1014menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1015 bool "CPU controller" 1016 default n 1017 help 1018 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1019 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1020 tasks. 1021 1022if CGROUP_SCHED 1023config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1024 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1025 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1026 default CGROUP_SCHED 1027 1028config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1029 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1030 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1031 default n 1032 help 1033 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1034 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1035 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1036 restriction. 1037 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1038 1039config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1040 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1041 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1042 default n 1043 help 1044 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1045 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1046 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1047 realtime bandwidth for them. 1048 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1049 1050endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1051 1052config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1053 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1054 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1055 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1056 default n 1057 help 1058 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1059 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1060 1061 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1062 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1063 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1064 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1065 frequency a task will always use. 1066 1067 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1068 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1069 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1070 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1071 1072 If in doubt, say N. 1073 1074config CGROUP_PIDS 1075 bool "PIDs controller" 1076 help 1077 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1078 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1079 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1080 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1081 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1082 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1083 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1084 1085 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1086 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1087 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1088 attach to a cgroup. 1089 1090config CGROUP_RDMA 1091 bool "RDMA controller" 1092 help 1093 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1094 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1095 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1096 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1097 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1098 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1099 1100config CGROUP_FREEZER 1101 bool "Freezer controller" 1102 help 1103 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1104 cgroup. 1105 1106 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1107 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1108 1109 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1110 1111config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1112 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1113 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1114 select PAGE_COUNTER 1115 default n 1116 help 1117 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1118 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1119 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1120 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1121 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1122 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1123 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1124 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1125 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1126 1127config CPUSETS 1128 bool "Cpuset controller" 1129 depends on SMP 1130 help 1131 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1132 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1133 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1134 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1135 1136 Say N if unsure. 1137 1138config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1139 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1140 depends on CPUSETS 1141 default y 1142 1143config CGROUP_DEVICE 1144 bool "Device controller" 1145 help 1146 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1147 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1148 1149config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1150 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1151 help 1152 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1153 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1154 1155config CGROUP_PERF 1156 bool "Perf controller" 1157 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1158 help 1159 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1160 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1161 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1162 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1163 1164 Say N if unsure. 1165 1166config CGROUP_BPF 1167 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1168 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1169 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1170 help 1171 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1172 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1173 1174 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1175 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1176 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1177 inet sockets. 1178 1179config CGROUP_MISC 1180 bool "Misc resource controller" 1181 default n 1182 help 1183 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1184 1185 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1186 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1187 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1188 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1189 1190 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1191 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1192 1193config CGROUP_DEBUG 1194 bool "Debug controller" 1195 default n 1196 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1197 help 1198 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1199 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1200 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1201 interfaces are not stable. 1202 1203 Say N. 1204 1205config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1206 bool 1207 default n 1208 1209endif # CGROUPS 1210 1211menuconfig NAMESPACES 1212 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1213 depends on MULTIUSER 1214 default !EXPERT 1215 help 1216 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1217 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1218 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1219 different namespaces. 1220 1221if NAMESPACES 1222 1223config UTS_NS 1224 bool "UTS namespace" 1225 default y 1226 help 1227 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1228 uname() system call 1229 1230config TIME_NS 1231 bool "TIME namespace" 1232 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1233 default y 1234 help 1235 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1236 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1237 1238config IPC_NS 1239 bool "IPC namespace" 1240 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1241 default y 1242 help 1243 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1244 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1245 1246config USER_NS 1247 bool "User namespace" 1248 default n 1249 help 1250 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1251 to provide different user info for different servers. 1252 1253 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1254 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1255 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1256 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1257 1258 If unsure, say N. 1259 1260config PID_NS 1261 bool "PID Namespaces" 1262 default y 1263 help 1264 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1265 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1266 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1267 1268config NET_NS 1269 bool "Network namespace" 1270 depends on NET 1271 default y 1272 help 1273 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1274 of the network stack. 1275 1276endif # NAMESPACES 1277 1278config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1279 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1280 depends on PROC_FS 1281 select PROC_CHILDREN 1282 select KCMP 1283 default n 1284 help 1285 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1286 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1287 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1288 entries. 1289 1290 If unsure, say N here. 1291 1292config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1293 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1294 select CGROUPS 1295 select CGROUP_SCHED 1296 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1297 help 1298 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1299 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1300 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1301 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1302 upon task session. 1303 1304config RT_SOFTIRQ_AWARE_SCHED 1305 bool "Improve RT scheduling during long softirq execution" 1306 depends on SMP && !PREEMPT_RT 1307 default n 1308 help 1309 Enable an optimization which tries to avoid placing RT tasks on CPUs 1310 occupied by nonpreemptible tasks, such as a long softirq or CPUs 1311 which may soon block preemptions, such as a CPU running a ksoftirq 1312 thread which handles slow softirqs. 1313 1314config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1315 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1316 depends on SYSFS 1317 default n 1318 help 1319 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1320 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1321 /sys/block/. 1322 1323 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1324 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1325 1326 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1327 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1328 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1329 1330 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1331 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1332 option enabled. 1333 1334 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1335 need to say Y here. 1336 1337config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1338 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1339 default n 1340 depends on SYSFS 1341 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1342 help 1343 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1344 1345 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1346 option. 1347 1348 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1349 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1350 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1351 1352config RELAY 1353 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1354 select IRQ_WORK 1355 help 1356 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1357 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1358 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1359 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1360 user space. 1361 1362 If unsure, say N. 1363 1364config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1365 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1366 help 1367 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1368 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1369 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1370 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1371 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1372 1373 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1374 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1375 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1376 1377 If unsure say Y. 1378 1379if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1380 1381source "usr/Kconfig" 1382 1383endif 1384 1385config BOOT_CONFIG 1386 bool "Boot config support" 1387 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1388 help 1389 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1390 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1391 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1392 with checksum, size and magic word. 1393 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1394 1395 If unsure, say Y. 1396 1397config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1398 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1399 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1400 help 1401 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1402 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1403 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1404 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1405 1406 If unsure, say N. 1407 1408config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1409 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1410 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1411 help 1412 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1413 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1414 bootconfig in the initrd. 1415 1416config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1417 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1418 default y 1419 help 1420 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1421 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1422 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1423 1424 If unsure, say Y. 1425 1426choice 1427 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1428 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1429 1430config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1431 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1432 help 1433 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1434 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1435 helpful compile-time warnings. 1436 1437config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1438 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1439 help 1440 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1441 in a smaller kernel. 1442 1443endchoice 1444 1445config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1446 bool 1447 help 1448 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1449 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1450 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1451 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1452 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1453 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1454 1455config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1456 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1457 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1458 depends on EXPERT 1459 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1460 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1461 help 1462 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1463 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1464 and linking with --gc-sections. 1465 1466 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1467 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1468 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1469 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1470 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1471 own risk. 1472 1473config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1474 def_bool y 1475 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1476 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1477 1478config SYSCTL 1479 bool 1480 1481config HAVE_UID16 1482 bool 1483 1484config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1485 bool 1486 help 1487 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1488 1489config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1490 bool 1491 help 1492 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1493 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1494 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1495 1496config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1497 bool 1498 help 1499 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1500 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1501 the unaligned access emulation. 1502 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1503 1504config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1505 bool 1506 1507# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1508config BPF 1509 bool 1510 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1511 1512menuconfig EXPERT 1513 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1514 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1515 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1516 help 1517 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1518 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1519 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1520 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1521 1522config UID16 1523 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1524 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1525 default y 1526 help 1527 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1528 1529config MULTIUSER 1530 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1531 default y 1532 help 1533 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1534 capabilities. 1535 1536 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1537 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1538 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1539 setgid, and capset. 1540 1541 If unsure, say Y here. 1542 1543config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1544 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1545 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1546 help 1547 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1548 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1549 architectures. 1550 1551 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1552 1553config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1554 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1555 default y 1556 help 1557 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1558 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1559 compatibility with some systems. 1560 1561 If unsure say Y here. 1562 1563config FHANDLE 1564 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1565 select EXPORTFS 1566 default y 1567 help 1568 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1569 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1570 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1571 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1572 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1573 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1574 syscalls. 1575 1576config POSIX_TIMERS 1577 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1578 default y 1579 help 1580 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1581 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1582 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1583 1584 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1585 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1586 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1587 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1588 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1589 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1590 1591 If unsure say y. 1592 1593config PRINTK 1594 default y 1595 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1596 select IRQ_WORK 1597 help 1598 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1599 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1600 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1601 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1602 strongly discouraged. 1603 1604config BUG 1605 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1606 default y 1607 help 1608 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1609 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1610 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1611 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1612 Just say Y. 1613 1614config ELF_CORE 1615 depends on COREDUMP 1616 default y 1617 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1618 help 1619 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1620 1621 1622config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1623 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1624 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1625 select I8253_LOCK 1626 default y 1627 help 1628 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1629 support, saving some memory. 1630 1631config BASE_FULL 1632 default y 1633 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1634 help 1635 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1636 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1637 but may reduce performance. 1638 1639config FUTEX 1640 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1641 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1642 default y 1643 imply RT_MUTEXES 1644 help 1645 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1646 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1647 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1648 1649config FUTEX_PI 1650 bool 1651 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1652 default y 1653 1654config EPOLL 1655 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1656 default y 1657 help 1658 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1659 support for epoll family of system calls. 1660 1661config SIGNALFD 1662 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1663 default y 1664 help 1665 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1666 on a file descriptor. 1667 1668 If unsure, say Y. 1669 1670config TIMERFD 1671 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1672 default y 1673 help 1674 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1675 events on a file descriptor. 1676 1677 If unsure, say Y. 1678 1679config EVENTFD 1680 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1681 default y 1682 help 1683 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1684 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1685 1686 If unsure, say Y. 1687 1688config SHMEM 1689 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1690 default y 1691 depends on MMU 1692 help 1693 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1694 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1695 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1696 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1697 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1698 1699config AIO 1700 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1701 default y 1702 help 1703 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1704 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1705 this option saves about 7k. 1706 1707config IO_URING 1708 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1709 select IO_WQ 1710 default y 1711 help 1712 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1713 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1714 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1715 1716config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1717 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1718 default y 1719 help 1720 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1721 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1722 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1723 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1724 space. 1725 1726config MEMBARRIER 1727 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1728 default y 1729 help 1730 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1731 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1732 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1733 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1734 compiler barrier. 1735 1736 If unsure, say Y. 1737 1738config KALLSYMS 1739 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1740 default y 1741 help 1742 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1743 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1744 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1745 1746config KALLSYMS_ALL 1747 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1748 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1749 help 1750 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1751 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1752 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1753 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1754 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1755 variables from the data sections, etc). 1756 1757 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1758 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1759 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1760 something like this). 1761 1762 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1763 1764config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1765 bool 1766 depends on KALLSYMS 1767 default X86_64 && SMP 1768 1769config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1770 bool 1771 depends on KALLSYMS 1772 default !IA64 1773 help 1774 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1775 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1776 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1777 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1778 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1779 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1780 address encountered in the image. 1781 1782 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1783 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1784 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1785 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1786 1787# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1788 1789# syscall, maps, verifier 1790 1791config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1792 bool 1793 1794config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1795 bool 1796 1797config KCMP 1798 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1799 help 1800 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1801 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1802 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1803 memory space. 1804 1805 If unsure, say N. 1806 1807config RSEQ 1808 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1809 default y 1810 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1811 select MEMBARRIER 1812 help 1813 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1814 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1815 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1816 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1817 per-CPU data. 1818 1819 If unsure, say Y. 1820 1821config DEBUG_RSEQ 1822 default n 1823 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1824 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1825 help 1826 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1827 1828 If unsure, say N. 1829 1830config EMBEDDED 1831 bool "Embedded system" 1832 select EXPERT 1833 help 1834 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1835 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1836 for configuration. 1837 1838config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1839 bool 1840 help 1841 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1842 1843config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1844 bool 1845 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1846 1847config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1848 bool 1849 help 1850 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1851 1852config PC104 1853 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1854 help 1855 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1856 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1857 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1858 1859menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1860 1861config PERF_EVENTS 1862 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1863 default y if PROFILING 1864 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1865 select IRQ_WORK 1866 select SRCU 1867 help 1868 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1869 by software and hardware. 1870 1871 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1872 use of generic tracepoints. 1873 1874 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1875 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1876 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1877 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1878 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1879 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1880 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1881 1882 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1883 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1884 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1885 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1886 capabilities on top of those. 1887 1888 Say Y if unsure. 1889 1890config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1891 default n 1892 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1893 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1894 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1895 help 1896 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1897 1898 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1899 that don't require it. 1900 1901 Say N if unsure. 1902 1903endmenu 1904 1905config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1906 def_bool n 1907 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1908 select KEYS 1909 select CRYPTO 1910 select CRYPTO_RSA 1911 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1912 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1913 select ASN1 1914 select OID_REGISTRY 1915 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1916 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1917 help 1918 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1919 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1920 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1921 verification. 1922 1923config PROFILING 1924 bool "Profiling support" 1925 help 1926 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1927 by profilers. 1928 1929config RUST 1930 bool "Rust support" 1931 depends on HAVE_RUST 1932 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1933 depends on !MODVERSIONS 1934 depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 1935 depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1936 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 1937 select CONSTRUCTORS 1938 help 1939 Enables Rust support in the kernel. 1940 1941 This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 1942 to be selected. 1943 1944 It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 1945 written in Rust. 1946 1947 See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 1948 1949 If unsure, say N. 1950 1951config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 1952 string 1953 depends on RUST 1954 default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 1955 1956config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 1957 string 1958 depends on RUST 1959 default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 1960 1961# 1962# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1963# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1964# 1965config TRACEPOINTS 1966 bool 1967 1968endmenu # General setup 1969 1970source "arch/Kconfig" 1971 1972config RT_MUTEXES 1973 bool 1974 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1975 1976config BASE_SMALL 1977 int 1978 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1979 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1980 1981config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1982 def_bool n 1983 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1984 1985source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1986 1987config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1988 bool 1989 help 1990 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1991 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1992 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1993 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1994 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1995 1996source "block/Kconfig" 1997 1998config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1999 bool 2000 2001config PADATA 2002 depends on SMP 2003 bool 2004 2005config ASN1 2006 tristate 2007 help 2008 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2009 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2010 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2011 functions to call on what tags. 2012 2013source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2014 2015config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 2016 bool 2017 2018config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2019 bool 2020 2021# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2022# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2023# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2024# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2025# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2026# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2027# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2028config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2029 def_bool n 2030 2031source "init/Kconfig.gki" 2032