1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config DEFCONFIG_LIST 3 string 4 depends on !UML 5 option defconfig_list 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7 default "/etc/kernel-config" 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9 default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10 11config CC_VERSION_TEXT 12 string 13 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 14 help 15 This is used in unclear ways: 16 17 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 18 The 'default' property references the environment variable, 19 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 20 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 21 22 - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated 23 include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so 24 fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated 25 dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it 26 and then every file will be rebuilt. 27 28config CC_IS_GCC 29 def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 30 31config GCC_VERSION 32 int 33 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 34 default 0 35 36config LD_VERSION 37 int 38 default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 39 40config CC_IS_CLANG 41 def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 42 43config LD_IS_LLD 44 def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 45 46config CLANG_VERSION 47 int 48 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 49 50config AS_IS_GNU 51 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 52 53config AS_IS_LLVM 54 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 55 56config AS_VERSION 57 int 58 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 59 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 60 default $(as-version) 61 62config LLD_VERSION 63 int 64 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) 65 66config CC_CAN_LINK 67 bool 68 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 69 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 70 71config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 72 bool 73 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 74 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 75 76config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 77 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 78 79config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 80 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 81 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 82 83config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 84 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 86 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 87 88config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 89 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 90 91config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 92 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 93 94config CONSTRUCTORS 95 bool 96 depends on !UML 97 98config IRQ_WORK 99 bool 100 101config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 102 bool 103 104config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 105 bool 106 help 107 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 108 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 109 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 110 111 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 112 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 113 114menu "General setup" 115 116config BROKEN 117 bool 118 119config BROKEN_ON_SMP 120 bool 121 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 122 default y 123 124config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 125 int 126 default 32 if !UML 127 default 128 if UML 128 help 129 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 130 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 131 132config COMPILE_TEST 133 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 134 depends on HAS_IOMEM 135 help 136 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 137 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 138 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 139 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 140 drivers to compile-test them. 141 142 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 143 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 144 drivers to be distributed. 145 146config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 147 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 148 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 149 help 150 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 151 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 152 153 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 154 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 155 156config LOCALVERSION 157 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 158 help 159 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 160 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 161 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 162 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 163 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 164 be a maximum of 64 characters. 165 166config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 167 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 168 default y 169 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 170 help 171 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 172 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 173 top of tree revision. 174 175 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 176 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 177 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 178 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 179 180 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 181 by running the command: 182 183 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 184 185 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 186 187config BUILD_SALT 188 string "Build ID Salt" 189 default "" 190 help 191 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 192 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 193 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 194 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 195 196config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 197 bool 198 199config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 200 bool 201 202config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 203 bool 204 205config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 206 bool 207 208config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 209 bool 210 211config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 212 bool 213 214config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 215 bool 216 217config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 218 bool 219 220choice 221 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 222 default KERNEL_GZIP 223 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 224 help 225 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 226 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 227 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 228 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 229 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 230 231 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 232 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 233 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 234 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 235 236 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 237 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 238 size matters less. 239 240 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 241 242config KERNEL_GZIP 243 bool "Gzip" 244 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 245 help 246 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 247 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 248 249config KERNEL_BZIP2 250 bool "Bzip2" 251 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 252 help 253 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 254 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 255 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 256 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 257 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 258 259config KERNEL_LZMA 260 bool "LZMA" 261 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 262 help 263 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 264 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 265 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 266 267config KERNEL_XZ 268 bool "XZ" 269 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 270 help 271 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 272 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 273 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 274 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 275 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 276 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 277 278 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 279 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 280 and LZO. Compression is slow. 281 282config KERNEL_LZO 283 bool "LZO" 284 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 285 help 286 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 287 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 288 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 289 290config KERNEL_LZ4 291 bool "LZ4" 292 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 293 help 294 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 295 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 296 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 297 298 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 299 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 300 faster than LZO. 301 302config KERNEL_ZSTD 303 bool "ZSTD" 304 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 305 help 306 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 307 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 308 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 309 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 310 line tool is required for compression. 311 312config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 313 bool "None" 314 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 315 help 316 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 317 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 318 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 319 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 320 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 321 322endchoice 323 324config DEFAULT_INIT 325 string "Default init path" 326 default "" 327 help 328 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 329 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 330 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 331 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 332 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 333 334config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 335 string "Default hostname" 336 default "(none)" 337 help 338 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 339 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 340 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 341 system more usable with less configuration. 342 343# 344# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 345# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 346# 347config ARCH_NO_SWAP 348 bool 349 350config SWAP 351 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 352 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 353 default y 354 help 355 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 356 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 357 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 358 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 359 360config SYSVIPC 361 bool "System V IPC" 362 help 363 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 364 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 365 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 366 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 367 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 368 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 369 you'll need to say Y here. 370 371 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 372 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 373 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 374 375config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 376 bool 377 depends on SYSVIPC 378 depends on SYSCTL 379 default y 380 381config POSIX_MQUEUE 382 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 383 depends on NET 384 help 385 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 386 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 387 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 388 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 389 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 390 391 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 392 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 393 operations on message queues. 394 395 If unsure, say Y. 396 397config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 398 bool 399 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 400 depends on SYSCTL 401 default y 402 403config WATCH_QUEUE 404 bool "General notification queue" 405 default n 406 help 407 408 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 409 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 410 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 411 notifications. 412 413 See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 414 415config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 416 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 417 depends on MMU 418 default y 419 help 420 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 421 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 422 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 423 See the man page for more details. 424 425config USELIB 426 bool "uselib syscall" 427 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 428 help 429 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 430 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 431 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 432 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 433 running glibc can safely disable this. 434 435config AUDIT 436 bool "Auditing support" 437 depends on NET 438 help 439 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 440 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 441 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 442 on architectures which support it. 443 444config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 445 bool 446 447config AUDITSYSCALL 448 def_bool y 449 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 450 select FSNOTIFY 451 452source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 453source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 454source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 455 456menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 457 458config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 459 bool 460 461choice 462 prompt "Cputime accounting" 463 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 464 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 465 466# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 467config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 468 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 469 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 470 help 471 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 472 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 473 granularity. 474 475 If unsure, say Y. 476 477config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 478 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 479 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 480 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 481 help 482 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 483 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 484 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 485 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 486 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 487 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 488 systems. 489 490config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 491 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 492 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 493 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 494 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 495 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 496 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 497 help 498 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 499 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 500 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 501 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 502 overhead. 503 504 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 505 dynticks subsystem development. 506 507 If unsure, say N. 508 509endchoice 510 511config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 512 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 513 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 514 help 515 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 516 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 517 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 518 small performance impact. 519 520 If in doubt, say N here. 521 522config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 523 def_bool y 524 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 525 depends on SMP 526 527config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 528 bool 529 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 530 default y if ARM64 531 depends on SMP 532 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 533 help 534 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 535 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 536 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 537 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 538 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 539 540 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 541 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 542 543 This requires the architecture to implement 544 arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). 545 546config SCHED_WALT 547 bool "Support window based load tracking" 548 depends on SMP 549 help 550 This feature will allow the scheduler to maintain a tunable window 551 based set of metrics for tasks and runqueues. These metrics can be 552 used to guide task placement as well as task frequency requirements 553 for cpufreq governors. 554 555config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 556 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 557 depends on MULTIUSER 558 help 559 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 560 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 561 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 562 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 563 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 564 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 565 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 566 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 567 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 568 569config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 570 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 571 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 572 default n 573 help 574 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 575 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 576 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 577 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 578 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 579 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 580 581config TASKSTATS 582 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 583 depends on NET 584 depends on MULTIUSER 585 default n 586 help 587 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 588 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 589 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 590 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 591 space on task exit. 592 593 Say N if unsure. 594 595config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 596 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 597 depends on TASKSTATS 598 select SCHED_INFO 599 help 600 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 601 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 602 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 603 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 604 605 Say N if unsure. 606 607config TASK_XACCT 608 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 609 depends on TASKSTATS 610 help 611 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 612 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 613 614 Say N if unsure. 615 616config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 617 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 618 depends on TASK_XACCT 619 help 620 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 621 task has caused. 622 623 Say N if unsure. 624 625config PSI 626 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 627 help 628 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 629 and IO capacity are in the system. 630 631 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 632 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 633 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 634 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 635 636 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 637 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 638 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 639 640 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 641 642 Say N if unsure. 643 644config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 645 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 646 default n 647 depends on PSI 648 help 649 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 650 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 651 kernel commandline during boot. 652 653 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 654 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 655 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 656 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 657 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 658 659 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 660 used for, say Y. 661 662 Say N if unsure. 663 664endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 665 666config CPU_ISOLATION 667 bool "CPU isolation" 668 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 669 default y 670 help 671 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 672 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 673 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 674 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 675 676 Say Y if unsure. 677 678config SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 679 bool "per-rq and per-cluster running average statistics" 680 default n 681 682config CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 683 bool "CPU isolation optimization" 684 depends on SMP 685 default n 686 help 687 This option enables cpu isolation optimization, which allows 688 to isolate cpu dynamically. The isolated cpu will be unavailable 689 to scheduler and load balancer, and all its non-pinned timers, 690 IRQs and tasks will be migrated to other cpus, only pinned 691 kthread and IRQS are still allowed to run, this achieves 692 similar effect as hotplug but at lower latency cost. 693 694config SCHED_CORE_CTRL 695 bool "Core control" 696 depends on CPU_ISOLATION_OPT 697 select SCHED_RUNNING_AVG 698 default n 699 help 700 This option enables the core control functionality in 701 the scheduler. Core control automatically isolate and 702 unisolate cores based on cpu load and utilization. 703 704source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 705 706config BUILD_BIN2C 707 bool 708 default n 709 710config IKCONFIG 711 tristate "Kernel .config support" 712 help 713 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 714 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 715 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 716 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 717 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 718 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 719 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 720 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 721 722config IKCONFIG_PROC 723 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 724 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 725 help 726 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 727 through /proc/config.gz. 728 729config IKHEADERS 730 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 731 depends on SYSFS 732 help 733 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 734 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 735 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 736 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 737 738config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 739 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 740 range 12 25 if !H8300 741 range 12 19 if H8300 742 default 17 743 depends on PRINTK 744 help 745 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 746 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 747 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 748 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 749 750 Examples: 751 17 => 128 KB 752 16 => 64 KB 753 15 => 32 KB 754 14 => 16 KB 755 13 => 8 KB 756 12 => 4 KB 757 758config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 759 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 760 depends on SMP 761 range 0 21 762 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 763 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 764 depends on PRINTK 765 help 766 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 767 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 768 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 769 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 770 e.g. backtraces. 771 772 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 773 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 774 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 775 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 776 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 777 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 778 779 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 780 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 781 782 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 783 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 784 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 785 786 Examples shift values and their meaning: 787 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 788 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 789 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 790 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 791 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 792 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 793 794config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 795 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 796 range 10 21 797 default 13 798 depends on PRINTK 799 help 800 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 801 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 802 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 803 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 804 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 805 806 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 807 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 808 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 809 810 Examples: 811 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 812 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 813 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 814 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 815 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 816 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 817 818# 819# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 820# 821config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 822 bool 823 824config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 825 bool 826 827menu "Scheduler features" 828 829config UCLAMP_TASK 830 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 831 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 832 help 833 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 834 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 835 836 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 837 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 838 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 839 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 840 841 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 842 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 843 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 844 845 If in doubt, say N. 846 847config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 848 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 849 range 5 20 850 default 5 851 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 852 help 853 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 854 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 855 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 856 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 857 858 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 859 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 860 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 861 effective value to 25%. 862 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 863 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 864 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 865 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 866 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 867 that bucket. 868 869 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 870 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 871 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 872 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 873 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 874 precision. 875 876 If in doubt, use the default value. 877 878config SCHED_LATENCY_NICE 879 bool "Enable latency feature for FAIR tasks" 880 default n 881 help 882 This feature use latency nice priority to decide if a cfs task can 883 preempt the current running task. 884 885source "kernel/sched/rtg/Kconfig" 886 887config SCHED_EAS 888 bool "EAS scheduler optimization" 889 default n 890 help 891 Check and migrate the CFS process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 892 893config SCHED_RT_CAS 894 bool "rt-cas optimization" 895 depends on SCHED_EAS 896 default n 897 help 898 RT task detects capacity during CPU selection 899 900config SCHED_RT_ACTIVE_LB 901 bool "RT Capacity Aware Misfit Task" 902 depends on SCHED_EAS 903 default n 904 help 905 Check and migrate the RT process to a more suitable CPU in the tick. 906 907endmenu 908 909# 910# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 911# balancing logic: 912# 913config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 914 bool 915 916# 917# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 918# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 919# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 920# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 921# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 922# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 923config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 924 bool 925 926config CC_HAS_INT128 927 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 928 929# 930# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 931# 932config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 933 bool 934 935# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 936# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 937# 938config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 939 bool 940 941config NUMA_BALANCING 942 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 943 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 944 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 945 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 946 help 947 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 948 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 949 it has references to the node the task is running on. 950 951 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 952 953config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 954 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 955 default y 956 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 957 help 958 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 959 machine. 960 961menuconfig CGROUPS 962 bool "Control Group support" 963 select KERNFS 964 help 965 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 966 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 967 controls or device isolation. 968 See 969 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 970 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 971 and resource control) 972 973 Say N if unsure. 974 975if CGROUPS 976 977config PAGE_COUNTER 978 bool 979 980config MEMCG 981 bool "Memory controller" 982 select PAGE_COUNTER 983 select EVENTFD 984 help 985 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 986 987config MEMCG_SWAP 988 bool 989 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 990 default y 991 992config MEMCG_KMEM 993 bool 994 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 995 default y 996 997config BLK_CGROUP 998 bool "IO controller" 999 depends on BLOCK 1000 default n 1001 help 1002 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1003 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1004 policies. 1005 1006 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1007 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1008 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1009 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1010 1011 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1012 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1013 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1014 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1015 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1016 1017 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1018 1019config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1020 bool 1021 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1022 default y 1023 1024menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1025 bool "CPU controller" 1026 default n 1027 help 1028 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1029 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1030 tasks. 1031 1032if CGROUP_SCHED 1033config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1034 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1035 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1036 default CGROUP_SCHED 1037 1038config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1039 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1040 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1041 default n 1042 help 1043 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1044 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1045 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1046 restriction. 1047 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1048 1049config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1050 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1051 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1052 default n 1053 help 1054 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1055 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1056 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1057 realtime bandwidth for them. 1058 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1059 1060endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1061 1062config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1063 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1064 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1065 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1066 default n 1067 help 1068 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1069 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1070 1071 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1072 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1073 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1074 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1075 frequency a task will always use. 1076 1077 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1078 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1079 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1080 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1081 1082 If in doubt, say N. 1083 1084config CGROUP_PIDS 1085 bool "PIDs controller" 1086 help 1087 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1088 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1089 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1090 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1091 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1092 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1093 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1094 1095 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1096 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1097 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1098 attach to a cgroup. 1099 1100config CGROUP_RDMA 1101 bool "RDMA controller" 1102 help 1103 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1104 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1105 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1106 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1107 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1108 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1109 1110config CGROUP_FREEZER 1111 bool "Freezer controller" 1112 help 1113 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1114 cgroup. 1115 1116 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1117 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1118 1119 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1120 1121config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1122 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1123 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1124 select PAGE_COUNTER 1125 default n 1126 help 1127 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1128 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1129 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1130 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1131 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1132 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1133 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1134 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1135 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1136 1137config CPUSETS 1138 bool "Cpuset controller" 1139 depends on SMP 1140 help 1141 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1142 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1143 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1144 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1145 1146 Say N if unsure. 1147 1148config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1149 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1150 depends on CPUSETS 1151 default y 1152 1153config CGROUP_DEVICE 1154 bool "Device controller" 1155 help 1156 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1157 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1158 1159config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1160 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1161 help 1162 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1163 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1164 1165config CGROUP_PERF 1166 bool "Perf controller" 1167 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1168 help 1169 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1170 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1171 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1172 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1173 1174 Say N if unsure. 1175 1176config CGROUP_BPF 1177 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1178 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1179 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1180 help 1181 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1182 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1183 1184 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1185 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1186 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1187 inet sockets. 1188 1189config CGROUP_DEBUG 1190 bool "Debug controller" 1191 default n 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1193 help 1194 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1195 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1196 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1197 interfaces are not stable. 1198 1199 Say N. 1200 1201config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1202 bool 1203 default n 1204 1205endif # CGROUPS 1206 1207menuconfig NAMESPACES 1208 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1209 depends on MULTIUSER 1210 default !EXPERT 1211 help 1212 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1213 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1214 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1215 different namespaces. 1216 1217if NAMESPACES 1218 1219config UTS_NS 1220 bool "UTS namespace" 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1224 uname() system call 1225 1226config TIME_NS 1227 bool "TIME namespace" 1228 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1229 default y 1230 help 1231 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1232 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1233 1234config IPC_NS 1235 bool "IPC namespace" 1236 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1237 default y 1238 help 1239 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1240 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1241 1242config USER_NS 1243 bool "User namespace" 1244 default n 1245 help 1246 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1247 to provide different user info for different servers. 1248 1249 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1250 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1251 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1252 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1253 1254 If unsure, say N. 1255 1256config PID_NS 1257 bool "PID Namespaces" 1258 default y 1259 help 1260 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1261 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1262 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1263 1264config NET_NS 1265 bool "Network namespace" 1266 depends on NET 1267 default y 1268 help 1269 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1270 of the network stack. 1271 1272endif # NAMESPACES 1273 1274config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1275 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1276 select PROC_CHILDREN 1277 select KCMP 1278 default n 1279 help 1280 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1281 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1282 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1283 entries. 1284 1285 If unsure, say N here. 1286 1287config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1288 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1289 select CGROUPS 1290 select CGROUP_SCHED 1291 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1292 help 1293 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1294 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1295 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1296 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1297 upon task session. 1298 1299config RT_SOFTINT_OPTIMIZATION 1300 bool "Improve RT scheduling during long softint execution" 1301 depends on (ARM64 || LOONGARCH) 1302 depends on SMP 1303 default n 1304 help 1305 Enable an optimization which tries to avoid placing RT tasks on CPUs 1306 occupied by nonpreemptible tasks, such as a long softint, or CPUs 1307 which may soon block preemptions, such as a CPU running a ksoftirq 1308 thread which handles slow softints. 1309 1310config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1311 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1312 depends on SYSFS 1313 default n 1314 help 1315 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1316 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1317 /sys/block/. 1318 1319 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1320 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1321 1322 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1323 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1324 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1325 1326 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1327 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1328 option enabled. 1329 1330 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1331 need to say Y here. 1332 1333config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1334 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1335 default n 1336 depends on SYSFS 1337 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1338 help 1339 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1340 1341 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1342 option. 1343 1344 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1345 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1346 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1347 1348config RELAY 1349 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1350 select IRQ_WORK 1351 help 1352 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1353 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1354 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1355 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1356 user space. 1357 1358 If unsure, say N. 1359 1360config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1361 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1362 help 1363 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1364 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1365 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1366 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1367 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1368 1369 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1370 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1371 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1372 1373 If unsure say Y. 1374 1375if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1376 1377source "usr/Kconfig" 1378 1379endif 1380 1381config BOOT_CONFIG 1382 bool "Boot config support" 1383 select BLK_DEV_INITRD 1384 help 1385 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1386 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1387 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1388 with checksum, size and magic word. 1389 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1390 1391 If unsure, say Y. 1392 1393choice 1394 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1395 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1396 1397config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1398 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1399 help 1400 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1401 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1402 helpful compile-time warnings. 1403 1404config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 1405 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 1406 depends on ARC 1407 help 1408 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 1409 the kernel yet more for performance. 1410 1411config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1412 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1413 help 1414 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1415 in a smaller kernel. 1416 1417endchoice 1418 1419config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1420 bool 1421 help 1422 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1423 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1424 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1425 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1426 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1427 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1428 1429config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1430 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1431 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1432 depends on EXPERT 1433 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1434 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1435 help 1436 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1437 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1438 and linking with --gc-sections. 1439 1440 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1441 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1442 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1443 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1444 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1445 own risk. 1446 1447config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1448 def_bool y 1449 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1450 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000 1451 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1452 1453config SYSCTL 1454 bool 1455 1456config HAVE_UID16 1457 bool 1458 1459config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1460 bool 1461 help 1462 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1463 1464config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1465 bool 1466 help 1467 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1468 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1469 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1470 1471config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1472 bool 1473 help 1474 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1475 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1476 the unaligned access emulation. 1477 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1478 1479config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1480 bool 1481 1482# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1483config BPF 1484 bool 1485 1486menuconfig EXPERT 1487 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1488 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1489 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1490 help 1491 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1492 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1493 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1494 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1495 1496config UID16 1497 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1498 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1499 default y 1500 help 1501 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1502 1503config MULTIUSER 1504 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1505 default y 1506 help 1507 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1508 capabilities. 1509 1510 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1511 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1512 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1513 setgid, and capset. 1514 1515 If unsure, say Y here. 1516 1517config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1518 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1519 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1520 help 1521 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1522 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1523 architectures. 1524 1525 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1526 1527config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1528 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1529 default y 1530 help 1531 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1532 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1533 compatibility with some systems. 1534 1535 If unsure say Y here. 1536 1537config FHANDLE 1538 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1539 select EXPORTFS 1540 default y 1541 help 1542 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1543 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1544 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1545 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1546 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1547 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1548 syscalls. 1549 1550config POSIX_TIMERS 1551 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1552 default y 1553 help 1554 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1555 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1556 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1557 1558 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1559 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1560 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1561 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1562 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1563 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1564 1565 If unsure say y. 1566 1567config PRINTK 1568 default y 1569 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1570 select IRQ_WORK 1571 help 1572 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1573 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1574 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1575 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1576 strongly discouraged. 1577 1578config PRINTK_NMI 1579 def_bool y 1580 depends on PRINTK 1581 depends on HAVE_NMI 1582 1583config BUG 1584 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1585 default y 1586 help 1587 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1588 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1589 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1590 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1591 Just say Y. 1592 1593config ELF_CORE 1594 depends on COREDUMP 1595 default y 1596 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1597 help 1598 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1599 1600 1601config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1602 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1603 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1604 select I8253_LOCK 1605 default y 1606 help 1607 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1608 support, saving some memory. 1609 1610config BASE_FULL 1611 default y 1612 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1613 help 1614 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1615 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1616 but may reduce performance. 1617 1618config FUTEX 1619 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1620 default y 1621 imply RT_MUTEXES 1622 help 1623 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1624 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1625 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1626 1627config FUTEX_PI 1628 bool 1629 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1630 default y 1631 1632config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1633 bool 1634 depends on FUTEX 1635 help 1636 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1637 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1638 checks. 1639 1640config EPOLL 1641 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1642 default y 1643 help 1644 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1645 support for epoll family of system calls. 1646 1647config SIGNALFD 1648 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1649 default y 1650 help 1651 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1652 on a file descriptor. 1653 1654 If unsure, say Y. 1655 1656config TIMERFD 1657 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1658 default y 1659 help 1660 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1661 events on a file descriptor. 1662 1663 If unsure, say Y. 1664 1665config EVENTFD 1666 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1667 default y 1668 help 1669 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1670 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1671 1672 If unsure, say Y. 1673 1674config SHMEM 1675 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1676 default y 1677 depends on MMU 1678 help 1679 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1680 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1681 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1682 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1683 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1684 1685config AIO 1686 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1687 default y 1688 help 1689 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1690 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1691 this option saves about 7k. 1692 1693config IO_URING 1694 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1695 select IO_WQ 1696 default y 1697 help 1698 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1699 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1700 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1701 1702config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1703 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1704 default y 1705 help 1706 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1707 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1708 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1709 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1710 space. 1711 1712config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1713 bool 1714 help 1715 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1716 1717config MEMBARRIER 1718 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1719 default y 1720 help 1721 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1722 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1723 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1724 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1725 compiler barrier. 1726 1727 If unsure, say Y. 1728 1729config KALLSYMS 1730 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1731 default y 1732 help 1733 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1734 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1735 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1736 1737config KALLSYMS_ALL 1738 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1739 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1740 help 1741 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1742 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1743 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1744 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1745 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1746 1747 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1748 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1749 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1750 something like this). 1751 1752 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1753 1754config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1755 bool 1756 depends on KALLSYMS 1757 default X86_64 && SMP 1758 1759config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1760 bool 1761 depends on KALLSYMS 1762 default !IA64 1763 help 1764 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1765 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1766 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1767 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1768 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1769 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1770 address encountered in the image. 1771 1772 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1773 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1774 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1775 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1776 1777# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1778 1779# syscall, maps, verifier 1780 1781config BPF_LSM 1782 bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 1783 depends on BPF_EVENTS 1784 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1785 depends on SECURITY 1786 depends on BPF_JIT 1787 help 1788 Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1789 implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1790 1791 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1792 1793config BPF_SYSCALL 1794 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1795 select BPF 1796 select IRQ_WORK 1797 select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1798 default n 1799 help 1800 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1801 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1802 1803config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 1804 bool 1805 1806config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1807 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1808 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1809 help 1810 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1811 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1812 1813config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 1814 def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1815 depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1816 1817config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF 1818 bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" 1819 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1820 help 1821 Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding 1822 /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled knob to 2. An admin can 1823 still reenable it by setting it to 0 later on, or permanently 1824 disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to 1825 0 is possible anymore). 1826 1827source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1828 1829config USERFAULTFD 1830 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1831 depends on MMU 1832 help 1833 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1834 handle page faults in userland. 1835 1836config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1837 bool 1838 1839config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1840 bool 1841 1842config KCMP 1843 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1844 help 1845 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1846 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1847 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1848 memory space. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config RSEQ 1853 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1854 default y 1855 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1856 select MEMBARRIER 1857 help 1858 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1859 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1860 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1861 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1862 per-CPU data. 1863 1864 If unsure, say Y. 1865 1866config DEBUG_RSEQ 1867 default n 1868 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1869 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1870 help 1871 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1872 1873 If unsure, say N. 1874 1875config EMBEDDED 1876 bool "Embedded system" 1877 option allnoconfig_y 1878 select EXPERT 1879 help 1880 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1881 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1882 for configuration. 1883 1884config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1885 bool 1886 help 1887 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1888 1889config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1890 bool 1891 help 1892 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1893 1894config PC104 1895 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1896 help 1897 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1898 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1899 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1900 1901menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1902 1903config PERF_EVENTS 1904 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1905 default y if PROFILING 1906 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1907 select IRQ_WORK 1908 select SRCU 1909 help 1910 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1911 by software and hardware. 1912 1913 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1914 use of generic tracepoints. 1915 1916 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1917 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1918 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1919 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1920 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1921 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1922 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1923 1924 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1925 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1926 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1927 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1928 capabilities on top of those. 1929 1930 Say Y if unsure. 1931 1932config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1933 default n 1934 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1935 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1936 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1937 help 1938 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1939 1940 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1941 that don't require it. 1942 1943 Say N if unsure. 1944 1945endmenu 1946 1947config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1948 default y 1949 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1950 help 1951 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1952 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1953 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1954 if VM event counters are disabled. 1955 1956config SLUB_DEBUG 1957 default y 1958 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1959 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1960 help 1961 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1962 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1963 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1964 no support for cache validation etc. 1965 1966config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1967 default n 1968 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1969 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1970 help 1971 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1972 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1973 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1974 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1975 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1976 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1977 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1978 config option determines the parameter's default value. 1979 1980config COMPAT_BRK 1981 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1982 default y 1983 help 1984 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1985 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1986 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1987 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1988 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1989 1990 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1991 1992choice 1993 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1994 default SLUB 1995 help 1996 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1997 1998config SLAB 1999 bool "SLAB" 2000 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2001 help 2002 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 2003 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 2004 per cpu and per node queues. 2005 2006config SLUB 2007 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 2008 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2009 help 2010 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2011 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2012 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2013 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2014 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2015 a slab allocator. 2016 2017config SLOB 2018 depends on EXPERT 2019 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 2020 help 2021 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 2022 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 2023 does not perform as well on large systems. 2024 2025endchoice 2026 2027config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2028 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2029 default y 2030 help 2031 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2032 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2033 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2034 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2035 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2036 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2037 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2038 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2039 command line. 2040 2041config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2042 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2043 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2044 help 2045 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2046 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2047 allocator against heap overflows. 2048 2049config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2050 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2051 depends on SLAB || SLUB 2052 help 2053 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2054 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2055 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2056 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 2057 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 2058 CONFIG_SLUB. 2059 2060config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 2061 bool "Page allocator randomization" 2062 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 2063 help 2064 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 2065 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 2066 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 2067 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 2068 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 2069 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 2070 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 2071 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 2072 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 2073 benefits on x86. 2074 2075 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 2076 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 2077 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 2078 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 2079 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 2080 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 2081 2082 Say Y if unsure. 2083 2084config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 2085 default y 2086 depends on SLUB && SMP 2087 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 2088 help 2089 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 2090 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 2091 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 2092 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 2093 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 2094 2095config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 2096 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 2097 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 2098 default n 2099 help 2100 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 2101 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 2102 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 2103 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 2104 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 2105 then the flag will be ignored. 2106 2107 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 2108 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 2109 2110 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2111 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2112 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2113 it is normally safe to say Y here. 2114 2115 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2116 2117config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2118 def_bool n 2119 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2120 select KEYS 2121 select CRYPTO 2122 select CRYPTO_RSA 2123 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2124 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2125 select ASN1 2126 select OID_REGISTRY 2127 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2128 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 2129 help 2130 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2131 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2132 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2133 verification. 2134 2135config PROFILING 2136 bool "Profiling support" 2137 help 2138 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2139 by profilers such as OProfile. 2140 2141# 2142# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 2143# dynamically changed for a probe function. 2144# 2145config TRACEPOINTS 2146 bool 2147 2148endmenu # General setup 2149 2150source "arch/Kconfig" 2151 2152config RT_MUTEXES 2153 bool 2154 2155config BASE_SMALL 2156 int 2157 default 0 if BASE_FULL 2158 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 2159 2160config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2161 def_bool n 2162 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2163 2164menuconfig MODULES 2165 bool "Enable loadable module support" 2166 option modules 2167 help 2168 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 2169 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 2170 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 2171 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 2172 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 2173 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 2174 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 2175 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 2176 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 2177 2178 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 2179 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 2180 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 2181 this). 2182 2183 If unsure, say Y. 2184 2185if MODULES 2186 2187config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2188 bool "Forced module loading" 2189 default n 2190 help 2191 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 2192 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 2193 is usually a really bad idea. 2194 2195config MODULE_UNLOAD 2196 bool "Module unloading" 2197 help 2198 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 2199 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2200 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2201 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 2202 2203config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 2204 bool "Forced module unloading" 2205 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 2206 help 2207 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 2208 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 2209 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 2210 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 2211 If unsure, say N. 2212 2213config MODVERSIONS 2214 bool "Module versioning support" 2215 help 2216 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 2217 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 2218 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 2219 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 2220 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 2221 unsure, say N. 2222 2223config ASM_MODVERSIONS 2224 bool 2225 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 2226 help 2227 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 2228 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 2229 supports it. 2230 2231config MODULE_REL_CRCS 2232 bool 2233 depends on MODVERSIONS 2234 2235config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 2236 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 2237 help 2238 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 2239 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 2240 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 2241 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 2242 others sometimes change the module source without updating 2243 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 2244 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 2245 2246config MODULE_SIG 2247 bool "Module signature verification" 2248 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2249 help 2250 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2251 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2252 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2253 2254 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2255 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2256 library. 2257 2258 You should enable this option if you wish to use either 2259 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 2260 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 2261 of the lockdown policy. 2262 2263 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2264 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2265 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2266 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2267 2268config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2269 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2270 depends on MODULE_SIG 2271 help 2272 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2273 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2274 2275config MODULE_SIG_ALL 2276 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2277 default y 2278 depends on MODULE_SIG 2279 help 2280 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2281 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2282 2283comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2284 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2285 2286choice 2287 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2288 depends on MODULE_SIG 2289 help 2290 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2291 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2292 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2293 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2294 the signature on that module. 2295 2296config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2297 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2298 select CRYPTO_SHA1 2299 2300config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2301 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2302 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2303 2304config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2305 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2306 select CRYPTO_SHA256 2307 2308config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2309 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2310 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2311 2312config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2313 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2314 select CRYPTO_SHA512 2315 2316endchoice 2317 2318config MODULE_SIG_HASH 2319 string 2320 depends on MODULE_SIG 2321 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2322 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2323 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2324 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2325 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2326 2327config MODULE_COMPRESS 2328 bool "Compress modules on installation" 2329 help 2330 2331 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2332 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2333 2334 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2335 2336 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2337 compressed upon installation. 2338 2339 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2340 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2341 2342 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2343 2344 If in doubt, say N. 2345 2346choice 2347 prompt "Compression algorithm" 2348 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2349 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2350 help 2351 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2352 'make modules_install'. 2353 2354 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2355 2356config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2357 bool "GZIP" 2358 2359config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2360 bool "XZ" 2361 2362endchoice 2363 2364config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 2365 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 2366 help 2367 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 2368 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 2369 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 2370 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 2371 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 2372 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 2373 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 2374 2375 If unsure, say N. 2376 2377config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2378 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2379 default y if X86 2380 help 2381 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2382 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2383 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2384 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2385 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2386 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2387 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2388 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2389 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2390 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2391 your module is. 2392 2393config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2394 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2395 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2396 help 2397 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2398 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2399 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2400 many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2401 2402 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2403 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2404 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2405 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2406 2407 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2408 2409config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 2410 string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 2411 depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2412 help 2413 By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 2414 build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 2415 2416 UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 2417 exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 2418 set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 2419 one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 2420 source tree. 2421 2422endif # MODULES 2423 2424config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 2425 def_bool y 2426 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 2427 2428config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2429 bool 2430 help 2431 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2432 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2433 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2434 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2435 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2436 2437source "block/Kconfig" 2438 2439config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2440 bool 2441 2442config PADATA 2443 depends on SMP 2444 bool 2445 2446config ASN1 2447 tristate 2448 help 2449 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2450 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2451 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2452 functions to call on what tags. 2453 2454source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2455 2456config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 2457 bool 2458 2459config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2460 bool 2461 2462# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2463# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2464# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2465# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2466# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2467# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2468# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2469config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2470 def_bool n 2471