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 COMPILE_TEST 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. Certain warnings from other tools 172 such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 173 well. 174 175 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 176 and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 177 you may need to disable this config option in order to 178 successfully build the kernel. 179 180 If in doubt, say Y. 181 182config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 183 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 184 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 185 help 186 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 187 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 188 189 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 190 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 191 192config LOCALVERSION 193 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 194 help 195 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 196 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 197 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 198 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 199 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 200 be a maximum of 64 characters. 201 202config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 203 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 204 default y 205 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 206 help 207 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 208 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 209 top of tree revision. 210 211 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 212 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 213 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 214 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 215 216 (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 217 by running the command: 218 219 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 220 221 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 222 223config BUILD_SALT 224 string "Build ID Salt" 225 default "" 226 help 227 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 228 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 229 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 230 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 231 232config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 233 bool 234 235config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 236 bool 237 238config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 239 bool 240 241config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 242 bool 243 244config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 245 bool 246 247config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 248 bool 249 250config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 251 bool 252 253config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 254 bool 255 256choice 257 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 258 default KERNEL_GZIP 259 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 260 help 261 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 262 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 263 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 264 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 265 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 266 267 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 268 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 269 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 270 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 271 272 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 273 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 274 size matters less. 275 276 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 277 278config KERNEL_GZIP 279 bool "Gzip" 280 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 281 help 282 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 283 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 284 285config KERNEL_BZIP2 286 bool "Bzip2" 287 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 288 help 289 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 290 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 291 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 292 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 293 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 294 295config KERNEL_LZMA 296 bool "LZMA" 297 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 298 help 299 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 300 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 301 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 302 303config KERNEL_XZ 304 bool "XZ" 305 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 306 help 307 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 308 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 309 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 310 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 311 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 312 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 313 314 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 315 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 316 and LZO. Compression is slow. 317 318config KERNEL_LZO 319 bool "LZO" 320 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 321 help 322 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 323 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 324 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 325 326config KERNEL_LZ4 327 bool "LZ4" 328 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 329 help 330 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 331 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 332 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 333 334 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 335 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 336 faster than LZO. 337 338config KERNEL_ZSTD 339 bool "ZSTD" 340 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 341 help 342 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 343 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 344 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 345 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 346 line tool is required for compression. 347 348config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 349 bool "None" 350 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 351 help 352 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 353 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 354 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 355 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 356 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 357 358endchoice 359 360config DEFAULT_INIT 361 string "Default init path" 362 default "" 363 help 364 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 365 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 366 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 367 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 368 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 369 370config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 371 string "Default hostname" 372 default "(none)" 373 help 374 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 375 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 376 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 377 system more usable with less configuration. 378 379config SYSVIPC 380 bool "System V IPC" 381 help 382 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 383 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 384 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 385 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 386 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 387 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 388 you'll need to say Y here. 389 390 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 391 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 392 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 393 394config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 395 bool 396 depends on SYSVIPC 397 depends on SYSCTL 398 default y 399 400config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 401 def_bool y 402 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 403 404config POSIX_MQUEUE 405 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 406 depends on NET 407 help 408 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 409 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 410 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 411 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 412 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 413 414 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 415 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 416 operations on message queues. 417 418 If unsure, say Y. 419 420config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 421 bool 422 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 423 depends on SYSCTL 424 default y 425 426config WATCH_QUEUE 427 bool "General notification queue" 428 default n 429 help 430 431 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 432 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 433 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 434 notifications. 435 436 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 437 438config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 439 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 440 depends on MMU 441 default y 442 help 443 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 444 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 445 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 446 See the man page for more details. 447 448config USELIB 449 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 450 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 451 help 452 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 453 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 454 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 455 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 456 running glibc can safely disable this. 457 458config AUDIT 459 bool "Auditing support" 460 depends on NET 461 help 462 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 463 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 464 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 465 on architectures which support it. 466 467config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 468 bool 469 470config AUDITSYSCALL 471 def_bool y 472 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 473 select FSNOTIFY 474 475source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 476source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 477source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 478source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 479 480menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 481 482config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 483 bool 484 485choice 486 prompt "Cputime accounting" 487 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 488 489# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 490config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 491 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 492 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 493 help 494 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 495 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 496 granularity. 497 498 If unsure, say Y. 499 500config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 501 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 502 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 503 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 504 help 505 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 506 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 507 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 508 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 509 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 510 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 511 systems. 512 513config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 514 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 515 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 516 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 517 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 518 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 519 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 520 help 521 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 522 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 523 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 524 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 525 overhead. 526 527 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 528 dynticks subsystem development. 529 530 If unsure, say N. 531 532endchoice 533 534config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 535 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 536 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 537 help 538 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 539 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 540 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 541 small performance impact. 542 543 If in doubt, say N here. 544 545config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 546 def_bool y 547 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 548 depends on SMP 549 550config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 551 bool 552 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 553 default y if ARM64 554 depends on SMP 555 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 556 help 557 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 558 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 559 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 560 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 561 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 562 563 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 564 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 565 566 This requires the architecture to implement 567 arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 568 569config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 570 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 571 depends on MULTIUSER 572 help 573 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 574 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 575 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 576 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 577 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 578 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 579 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 580 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 581 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 582 583config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 584 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 585 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 586 default n 587 help 588 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 589 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 590 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 591 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 592 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 593 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 594 595config TASKSTATS 596 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 597 depends on NET 598 depends on MULTIUSER 599 default n 600 help 601 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 602 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 603 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 604 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 605 space on task exit. 606 607 Say N if unsure. 608 609config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 610 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 611 depends on TASKSTATS 612 select SCHED_INFO 613 help 614 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 615 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 616 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 617 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 618 619 Say N if unsure. 620 621config TASK_XACCT 622 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 623 depends on TASKSTATS 624 help 625 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 626 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 627 628 Say N if unsure. 629 630config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 631 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 632 depends on TASK_XACCT 633 help 634 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 635 task has caused. 636 637 Say N if unsure. 638 639config PSI 640 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 641 select KERNFS 642 help 643 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 644 and IO capacity are in the system. 645 646 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 647 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 648 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 649 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 650 651 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 652 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 653 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 654 655 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 656 657 Say N if unsure. 658 659config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 660 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 661 default n 662 depends on PSI 663 help 664 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 665 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 666 kernel commandline during boot. 667 668 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 669 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 670 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 671 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 672 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 673 674 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 675 used for, say Y. 676 677 Say N if unsure. 678 679endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 680 681config CPU_ISOLATION 682 bool "CPU isolation" 683 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 684 default y 685 help 686 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 687 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 688 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 689 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 690 691 Say Y if unsure. 692 693source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 694 695config IKCONFIG 696 tristate "Kernel .config support" 697 help 698 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 699 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 700 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 701 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 702 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 703 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 704 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 705 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 706 707config IKCONFIG_PROC 708 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 709 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 710 help 711 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 712 through /proc/config.gz. 713 714config IKHEADERS 715 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 716 depends on SYSFS 717 help 718 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 719 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 720 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 721 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 722 723config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 724 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 725 range 12 25 726 default 17 727 depends on PRINTK 728 help 729 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 730 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 731 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 732 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 733 734 Examples: 735 17 => 128 KB 736 16 => 64 KB 737 15 => 32 KB 738 14 => 16 KB 739 13 => 8 KB 740 12 => 4 KB 741 742config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 743 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 744 depends on SMP 745 range 0 21 746 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 747 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 748 depends on PRINTK 749 help 750 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 751 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 752 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 753 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 754 e.g. backtraces. 755 756 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 757 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 758 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 759 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 760 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 761 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 762 763 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 764 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 765 766 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 767 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 768 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 769 770 Examples shift values and their meaning: 771 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 772 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 773 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 774 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 775 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 776 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 777 778config PRINTK_INDEX 779 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 780 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 781 help 782 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 783 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 784 785 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 786 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 787 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 788 changed or no longer present. 789 790 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 791 792# 793# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 794# 795config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 796 bool 797 798config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 799 bool 800 801menu "Scheduler features" 802 803config UCLAMP_TASK 804 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 805 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 806 help 807 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 808 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 809 810 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 811 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 812 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 813 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 814 815 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 816 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 817 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 818 819 If in doubt, say N. 820 821config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 822 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 823 range 5 20 824 default 5 825 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 826 help 827 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 828 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 829 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 830 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 831 832 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 833 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 834 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 835 effective value to 25%. 836 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 837 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 838 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 839 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 840 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 841 that bucket. 842 843 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 844 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 845 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 846 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 847 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 848 precision. 849 850 If in doubt, use the default value. 851 852config SCHED_LATENCY_NICE 853 bool "Enable latency feature for FAIR tasks" 854 default n 855 help 856 This feature use latency nice priority to decide if a cfs task can 857 preempt the current running task. 858 859endmenu 860 861# 862# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 863# balancing logic: 864# 865config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 866 bool 867 868# 869# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 870# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 871# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 872# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 873# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 874# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 875config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 876 bool 877 878config CC_HAS_INT128 879 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 880 881config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 882 string 883 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 884 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 885 886# Currently, disable gcc-11+ array-bounds globally. 887# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 888config GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 889 def_bool y 890 891config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 892 bool 893 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 894 895# 896# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 897# 898config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 899 bool 900 901# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 902# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 903# 904config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 905 bool 906 907config NUMA_BALANCING 908 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 909 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 910 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 911 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 912 help 913 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 914 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 915 it has references to the node the task is running on. 916 917 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 918 919config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 920 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 921 default y 922 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 923 help 924 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 925 machine. 926 927menuconfig CGROUPS 928 bool "Control Group support" 929 select KERNFS 930 help 931 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 932 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 933 controls or device isolation. 934 See 935 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 936 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 937 and resource control) 938 939 Say N if unsure. 940 941if CGROUPS 942 943config PAGE_COUNTER 944 bool 945 946config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 947 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 948 help 949 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 950 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 951 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 952 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 953 954 Say N if unsure. 955 956config MEMCG 957 bool "Memory controller" 958 select PAGE_COUNTER 959 select EVENTFD 960 help 961 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 962 963config MEMCG_KMEM 964 bool 965 depends on MEMCG 966 default y 967 968config BLK_CGROUP 969 bool "IO controller" 970 depends on BLOCK 971 default n 972 help 973 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 974 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 975 policies. 976 977 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 978 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 979 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 980 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 981 982 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 983 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 984 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 985 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 986 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 987 988 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 989 990config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 991 bool 992 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 993 default y 994 995menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 996 bool "CPU controller" 997 default n 998 help 999 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1000 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1001 tasks. 1002 1003if CGROUP_SCHED 1004config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1005 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1006 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1007 default CGROUP_SCHED 1008 1009config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1010 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1011 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1012 default n 1013 help 1014 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1015 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1016 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1017 restriction. 1018 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1019 1020config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1021 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1022 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1023 default n 1024 help 1025 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1026 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1027 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1028 realtime bandwidth for them. 1029 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1030 1031endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1032 1033config SCHED_MM_CID 1034 def_bool y 1035 depends on SMP && RSEQ 1036 1037config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1038 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1039 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1040 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1041 default n 1042 help 1043 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1044 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1045 1046 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1047 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1048 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1049 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1050 frequency a task will always use. 1051 1052 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1053 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1054 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1055 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1056 1057 If in doubt, say N. 1058 1059config CGROUP_PIDS 1060 bool "PIDs controller" 1061 help 1062 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1063 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1064 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1065 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1066 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1067 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1068 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1069 1070 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1071 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1072 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1073 attach to a cgroup. 1074 1075config CGROUP_RDMA 1076 bool "RDMA controller" 1077 help 1078 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1079 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1080 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1081 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1082 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1083 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1084 1085config CGROUP_FREEZER 1086 bool "Freezer controller" 1087 help 1088 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1089 cgroup. 1090 1091 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1092 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1093 1094 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1095 1096config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1097 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1098 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1099 select PAGE_COUNTER 1100 default n 1101 help 1102 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1103 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1104 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1105 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1106 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1107 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1108 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1109 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1110 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1111 1112config CPUSETS 1113 bool "Cpuset controller" 1114 depends on SMP 1115 help 1116 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1117 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1118 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1119 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1120 1121 Say N if unsure. 1122 1123config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1124 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1125 depends on CPUSETS 1126 default y 1127 1128config CGROUP_DEVICE 1129 bool "Device controller" 1130 help 1131 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1132 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1133 1134config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1135 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1136 help 1137 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1138 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1139 1140config CGROUP_PERF 1141 bool "Perf controller" 1142 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1143 help 1144 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1145 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1146 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1147 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1148 1149 Say N if unsure. 1150 1151config CGROUP_BPF 1152 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1153 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1154 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1155 help 1156 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1157 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1158 1159 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1160 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1161 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1162 inet sockets. 1163 1164config CGROUP_MISC 1165 bool "Misc resource controller" 1166 default n 1167 help 1168 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1169 1170 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1171 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1172 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1173 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1174 1175 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1176 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1177 1178config CGROUP_DEBUG 1179 bool "Debug controller" 1180 default n 1181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1182 help 1183 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1184 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1185 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1186 interfaces are not stable. 1187 1188 Say N. 1189 1190config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1191 bool 1192 default n 1193 1194endif # CGROUPS 1195 1196menuconfig NAMESPACES 1197 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1198 depends on MULTIUSER 1199 default !EXPERT 1200 help 1201 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1202 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1203 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1204 different namespaces. 1205 1206if NAMESPACES 1207 1208config UTS_NS 1209 bool "UTS namespace" 1210 default y 1211 help 1212 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1213 uname() system call 1214 1215config TIME_NS 1216 bool "TIME namespace" 1217 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1218 default y 1219 help 1220 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1221 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1222 1223config IPC_NS 1224 bool "IPC namespace" 1225 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1226 default y 1227 help 1228 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1229 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1230 1231config USER_NS 1232 bool "User namespace" 1233 default n 1234 help 1235 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1236 to provide different user info for different servers. 1237 1238 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1239 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1240 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1241 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1242 1243 If unsure, say N. 1244 1245config PID_NS 1246 bool "PID Namespaces" 1247 default y 1248 help 1249 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1250 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1251 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1252 1253config NET_NS 1254 bool "Network namespace" 1255 depends on NET 1256 default y 1257 help 1258 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1259 of the network stack. 1260 1261endif # NAMESPACES 1262 1263config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1264 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1265 depends on PROC_FS 1266 select PROC_CHILDREN 1267 select KCMP 1268 default n 1269 help 1270 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1271 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1272 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1273 entries. 1274 1275 If unsure, say N here. 1276 1277config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1278 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1279 select CGROUPS 1280 select CGROUP_SCHED 1281 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1282 help 1283 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1284 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1285 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1286 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1287 upon task session. 1288 1289config RELAY 1290 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1291 select IRQ_WORK 1292 help 1293 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1294 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1295 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1296 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1297 user space. 1298 1299 If unsure, say N. 1300 1301config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1302 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1303 help 1304 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1305 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1306 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1307 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1308 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1309 1310 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1311 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1312 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1313 1314 If unsure say Y. 1315 1316if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1317 1318source "usr/Kconfig" 1319 1320endif 1321 1322config BOOT_CONFIG 1323 bool "Boot config support" 1324 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1325 help 1326 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1327 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1328 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1329 with checksum, size and magic word. 1330 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1331 1332 If unsure, say Y. 1333 1334config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1335 bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1336 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1337 default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1338 help 1339 With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1340 out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1341 In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1342 make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1343 parameters. 1344 1345 If unsure, say N. 1346 1347config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1348 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1349 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1350 help 1351 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1352 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1353 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1354 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1355 1356 If unsure, say N. 1357 1358config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1359 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1360 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1361 help 1362 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1363 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1364 bootconfig in the initrd. 1365 1366config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1367 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1368 default y 1369 help 1370 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1371 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1372 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1373 1374 If unsure, say Y. 1375 1376choice 1377 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1378 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1379 1380config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1381 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1382 help 1383 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1384 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1385 helpful compile-time warnings. 1386 1387config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1388 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1389 help 1390 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1391 in a smaller kernel. 1392 1393endchoice 1394 1395config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1396 bool 1397 help 1398 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1399 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1400 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1401 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1402 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1403 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1404 1405config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1406 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1407 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1408 depends on EXPERT 1409 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1410 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1411 help 1412 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1413 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1414 and linking with --gc-sections. 1415 1416 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1417 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1418 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1419 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1420 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1421 own risk. 1422 1423config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1424 def_bool y 1425 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1426 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1427 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1428 1429config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1430 string 1431 depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1432 default "error" if WERROR 1433 default "warn" 1434 1435config SYSCTL 1436 bool 1437 1438config HAVE_UID16 1439 bool 1440 1441config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1442 bool 1443 help 1444 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1445 1446config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1447 bool 1448 help 1449 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1450 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1451 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1452 1453config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1454 bool 1455 help 1456 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1457 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1458 the unaligned access emulation. 1459 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1460 1461config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1462 bool 1463 1464# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1465config BPF 1466 bool 1467 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1468 1469menuconfig EXPERT 1470 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1471 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1472 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1473 help 1474 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1475 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1476 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1477 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1478 1479config UID16 1480 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1481 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1482 default y 1483 help 1484 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1485 1486config MULTIUSER 1487 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1488 default y 1489 help 1490 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1491 capabilities. 1492 1493 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1494 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1495 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1496 setgid, and capset. 1497 1498 If unsure, say Y here. 1499 1500config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1501 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1502 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1503 help 1504 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1505 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1506 architectures. 1507 1508 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1509 1510config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1511 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1512 default y 1513 help 1514 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1515 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1516 compatibility with some systems. 1517 1518 If unsure say Y here. 1519 1520config FHANDLE 1521 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1522 select EXPORTFS 1523 default y 1524 help 1525 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1526 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1527 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1528 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1529 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1530 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1531 syscalls. 1532 1533config POSIX_TIMERS 1534 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1535 default y 1536 help 1537 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1538 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1539 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1540 1541 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1542 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1543 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1544 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1545 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1546 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1547 1548 If unsure say y. 1549 1550config PRINTK 1551 default y 1552 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1553 select IRQ_WORK 1554 help 1555 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1556 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1557 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1558 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1559 strongly discouraged. 1560 1561config BUG 1562 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1563 default y 1564 help 1565 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1566 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1567 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1568 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1569 Just say Y. 1570 1571config ELF_CORE 1572 depends on COREDUMP 1573 default y 1574 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1575 help 1576 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1577 1578 1579config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1580 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1581 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1582 select I8253_LOCK 1583 default y 1584 help 1585 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1586 support, saving some memory. 1587 1588config BASE_FULL 1589 default y 1590 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1591 help 1592 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1593 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1594 but may reduce performance. 1595 1596config FUTEX 1597 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1598 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1599 default y 1600 imply RT_MUTEXES 1601 help 1602 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1603 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1604 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1605 1606config FUTEX_PI 1607 bool 1608 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1609 default y 1610 1611config EPOLL 1612 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1613 default y 1614 help 1615 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1616 support for epoll family of system calls. 1617 1618config SIGNALFD 1619 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1620 default y 1621 help 1622 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1623 on a file descriptor. 1624 1625 If unsure, say Y. 1626 1627config TIMERFD 1628 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1629 default y 1630 help 1631 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1632 events on a file descriptor. 1633 1634 If unsure, say Y. 1635 1636config EVENTFD 1637 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1638 default y 1639 help 1640 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1641 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1642 1643 If unsure, say Y. 1644 1645config SHMEM 1646 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1647 default y 1648 depends on MMU 1649 help 1650 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1651 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1652 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1653 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1654 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1655 1656config AIO 1657 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1658 default y 1659 help 1660 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1661 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1662 this option saves about 7k. 1663 1664config IO_URING 1665 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1666 select IO_WQ 1667 default y 1668 help 1669 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1670 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1671 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1672 1673config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1674 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1675 default y 1676 help 1677 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1678 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1679 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1680 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1681 space. 1682 1683config MEMBARRIER 1684 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1685 default y 1686 help 1687 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1688 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1689 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1690 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1691 compiler barrier. 1692 1693 If unsure, say Y. 1694 1695config KALLSYMS 1696 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1697 default y 1698 help 1699 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1700 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1701 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1702 1703config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 1704 bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 1705 depends on KALLSYMS 1706 default n 1707 help 1708 Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 1709 kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 1710 kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 1711 1712 Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 1713 "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 1714 displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 1715 1716config KALLSYMS_ALL 1717 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1719 help 1720 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1721 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1722 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1723 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1724 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1725 variables from the data sections, etc). 1726 1727 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1728 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1729 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1730 something like this). 1731 1732 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1733 1734config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1735 bool 1736 depends on KALLSYMS 1737 default X86_64 && SMP 1738 1739config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1740 bool 1741 depends on KALLSYMS 1742 default !IA64 1743 help 1744 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1745 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1746 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1747 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1748 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1749 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1750 address encountered in the image. 1751 1752 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1753 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1754 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1755 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1756 1757# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1758 1759# syscall, maps, verifier 1760 1761config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1762 bool 1763 1764config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1765 bool 1766 1767config KCMP 1768 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1769 help 1770 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1771 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1772 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1773 memory space. 1774 1775 If unsure, say N. 1776 1777config RSEQ 1778 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1779 default y 1780 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1781 select MEMBARRIER 1782 help 1783 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1784 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1785 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1786 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1787 per-CPU data. 1788 1789 If unsure, say Y. 1790 1791config CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1792 bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1793 default y 1794 help 1795 Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1796 statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1797 pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1798 1799 If unsure say Y here. 1800 1801config DEBUG_RSEQ 1802 default n 1803 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1804 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1805 help 1806 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1807 1808 If unsure, say N. 1809 1810config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1811 bool 1812 help 1813 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1814 1815config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1816 bool 1817 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1818 1819config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1820 bool 1821 help 1822 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1823 1824config PC104 1825 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1826 help 1827 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1828 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1829 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1830 1831menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1832 1833config PERF_EVENTS 1834 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1835 default y if PROFILING 1836 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1837 select IRQ_WORK 1838 help 1839 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1840 by software and hardware. 1841 1842 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1843 use of generic tracepoints. 1844 1845 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1846 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1847 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1848 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1849 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1850 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1851 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1852 1853 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1854 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1855 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1856 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1857 capabilities on top of those. 1858 1859 Say Y if unsure. 1860 1861config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1862 default n 1863 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1864 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1865 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1866 help 1867 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1868 1869 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1870 that don't require it. 1871 1872 Say N if unsure. 1873 1874endmenu 1875 1876config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1877 def_bool n 1878 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1879 select KEYS 1880 select CRYPTO 1881 select CRYPTO_RSA 1882 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1883 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1884 select ASN1 1885 select OID_REGISTRY 1886 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1887 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1888 help 1889 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1890 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1891 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1892 verification. 1893 1894config PROFILING 1895 bool "Profiling support" 1896 help 1897 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1898 by profilers. 1899 1900config RUST 1901 bool "Rust support" 1902 depends on HAVE_RUST 1903 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1904 depends on !MODVERSIONS 1905 depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 1906 depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1907 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 1908 select CONSTRUCTORS 1909 help 1910 Enables Rust support in the kernel. 1911 1912 This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 1913 to be selected. 1914 1915 It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 1916 written in Rust. 1917 1918 See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 1919 1920 If unsure, say N. 1921 1922config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 1923 string 1924 depends on RUST 1925 default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 1926 1927config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 1928 string 1929 depends on RUST 1930 default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 1931 1932# 1933# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1934# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1935# 1936config TRACEPOINTS 1937 bool 1938 1939source "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 1940 1941endmenu # General setup 1942 1943source "arch/Kconfig" 1944 1945config RT_MUTEXES 1946 bool 1947 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1948 1949config BASE_SMALL 1950 int 1951 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1952 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1953 1954config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1955 def_bool n 1956 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1957 1958source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1959 1960config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1961 bool 1962 help 1963 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1964 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1965 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1966 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1967 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1968 1969source "block/Kconfig" 1970 1971config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1972 bool 1973 1974config PADATA 1975 depends on SMP 1976 bool 1977 1978config ASN1 1979 tristate 1980 help 1981 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1982 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1983 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1984 functions to call on what tags. 1985 1986source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1987 1988config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 1989 bool 1990 1991config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1992 bool 1993 1994# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 1995# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 1996# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 1997# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 1998# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 1999# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2000# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2001config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2002 def_bool n 2003