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