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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2config DEFCONFIG_LIST
3 string
b2670eac 4 depends on !UML
face4374 5 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 7 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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9 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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12config CC_IS_GCC
13 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14
15config GCC_VERSION
16 int
fa7295ab 17 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
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18 default 0
19
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20config CC_IS_CLANG
21 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22
23config CLANG_VERSION
24 int
25 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26
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27config CC_CAN_LINK
28 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
29
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30config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32
5cf896fb 33config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 34 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
5cf896fb 35
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36config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
37 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
38
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39config CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
40 def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
41 help
42 GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
43
44config CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
45 bool
46 depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
47 default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
48 help
49 GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
50 Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
51
52 If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
53 to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
54
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55config CONSTRUCTORS
56 bool
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58config IRQ_WORK
59 bool
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61config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
62 bool
63
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64config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
65 bool
66 help
67 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
68 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
69 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
70
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71 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
72 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
73
ff0cfc66 74menu "General setup"
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76config BROKEN
77 bool
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78
79config BROKEN_ON_SMP
80 bool
81 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
82 default y
83
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84config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
85 int
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86 default 32 if !UML
87 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 88 help
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89 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
90 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 91
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92config COMPILE_TEST
93 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 94 depends on !UML
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95 default n
96 help
97 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
98 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
99 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
100 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
101 drivers to compile-test them.
102
103 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
104 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
105 drivers to be distributed.
106
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107config HEADER_TEST
108 bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable"
109 help
110 Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are
111 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
112
113 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested
114 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
115
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116config KERNEL_HEADER_TEST
117 bool "Compile test kernel headers"
118 depends on HEADER_TEST
119 help
120 Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls.
121 Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e.
122 compilable as standalone units.
123
124 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers
125 in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
126
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127config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
128 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
129 depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
130 help
131 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
132 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
133
134 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
135 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
136
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137config LOCALVERSION
138 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
139 help
140 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
141 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
142 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
143 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
144 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
145 be a maximum of 64 characters.
146
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147config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
148 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
149 default y
ac3339ba 150 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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151 help
152 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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153 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
154 top of tree revision.
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155
156 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 157 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 158 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 159 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 160
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161 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
162 by running the command:
163
164 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
165
166 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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168config BUILD_SALT
169 string "Build ID Salt"
170 default ""
171 help
172 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
173 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
174 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
175 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
176
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177config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
178 bool
179
180config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
181 bool
182
183config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
184 bool
185
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186config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
187 bool
188
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189config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
190 bool
191
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192config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
193 bool
194
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195config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
196 bool
197
30d65dbf 198choice
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199 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
200 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 201 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 202 help
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203 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
204 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
205 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
206 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
207 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
208
209 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
210 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
211 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
212 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
213
214 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
215 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
216 size matters less.
217
218 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
219
220config KERNEL_GZIP
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221 bool "Gzip"
222 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
223 help
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224 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
225 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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226
227config KERNEL_BZIP2
228 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 229 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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230 help
231 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 232 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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233 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
234 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
235 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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237config KERNEL_LZMA
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238 bool "LZMA"
239 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
240 help
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241 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
242 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
243 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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245config KERNEL_XZ
246 bool "XZ"
247 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
248 help
249 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
250 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
251 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
252 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
253 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
254 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
255
256 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
257 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
258 and LZO. Compression is slow.
259
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260config KERNEL_LZO
261 bool "LZO"
262 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
263 help
0a4dd35c 264 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 265 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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266 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
267
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268config KERNEL_LZ4
269 bool "LZ4"
270 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
271 help
272 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
273 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
274 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
275
276 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
277 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
278 faster than LZO.
279
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280config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
281 bool "None"
282 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
283 help
284 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
285 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
286 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
287 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
288 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
289
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290endchoice
291
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292config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
293 string "Default hostname"
294 default "(none)"
295 help
296 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
297 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
298 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
299 system more usable with less configuration.
300
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301#
302# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
303# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
304#
305config ARCH_NO_SWAP
306 bool
307
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308config SWAP
309 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 310 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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311 default y
312 help
313 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 314 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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315 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
316 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
317
318config SYSVIPC
319 bool "System V IPC"
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320 ---help---
321 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
322 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
323 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
324 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
325 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
326 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
327 you'll need to say Y here.
328
329 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
330 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
331 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
332
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333config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
334 bool
335 depends on SYSVIPC
336 depends on SYSCTL
337 default y
338
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339config POSIX_MQUEUE
340 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 341 depends on NET
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342 ---help---
343 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
344 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
345 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
346 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 347 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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348
349 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
350 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
351 operations on message queues.
352
353 If unsure, say Y.
354
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355config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
356 bool
357 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
358 depends on SYSCTL
359 default y
360
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361config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
362 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
363 depends on MMU
364 default y
365 help
366 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
367 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 368 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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369 See the man page for more details.
370
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371config USELIB
372 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 373 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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374 help
375 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
376 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
377 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
378 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
379 running glibc can safely disable this.
380
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381config AUDIT
382 bool "Auditing support"
383 depends on NET
384 help
385 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
386 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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387 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
388 on architectures which support it.
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390config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
391 bool
392
391dc69c 393config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 394 def_bool y
7a017721 395 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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396 select FSNOTIFY
397
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398source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
399source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 400source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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401
402menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
403
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404config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
405 bool
406
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407choice
408 prompt "Cputime accounting"
409 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 410 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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412# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
413config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
414 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 415 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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416 help
417 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
418 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
419 granularity.
420
421 If unsure, say Y.
422
abf917cd 423config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 424 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 425 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 426 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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427 help
428 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
429 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
430 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
431 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
432 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
433 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
434 systems.
435
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436config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
437 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 438 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 439 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
041a1574 440 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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441 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
442 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
443 help
444 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
445 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
446 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
447 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
448 overhead.
449
450 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
451 dynticks subsystem development.
452
453 If unsure, say N.
454
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456
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457config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
458 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 459 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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460 help
461 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
462 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
463 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
464 small performance impact.
465
466 If in doubt, say N here.
467
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468config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
469 def_bool y
470 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
471 depends on SMP
472
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473config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
474 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 475 depends on MULTIUSER
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476 help
477 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
478 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
479 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
480 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
481 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
482 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
483 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
484 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
485 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
486
487config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
488 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
489 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
490 default n
491 help
492 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
493 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 494 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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495 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
496 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 497 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 498
c757249a 499config TASKSTATS
19c92399 500 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 501 depends on NET
2813893f 502 depends on MULTIUSER
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503 default n
504 help
505 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
506 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
507 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
508 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
509 space on task exit.
510
511 Say N if unsure.
512
ca74e92b 513config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 514 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 515 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 516 select SCHED_INFO
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517 help
518 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
519 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
520 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
521 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
522
523 Say N if unsure.
524
18f705f4 525config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 526 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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527 depends on TASKSTATS
528 help
529 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
530 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
531
532 Say N if unsure.
533
534config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 535 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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536 depends on TASK_XACCT
537 help
538 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
539 task has caused.
540
541 Say N if unsure.
542
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543config PSI
544 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
545 help
546 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
547 and IO capacity are in the system.
548
549 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
550 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
551 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
552 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
553
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554 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
555 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
556 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
557
c3123552 558 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
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560 Say N if unsure.
561
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562config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
563 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
564 default n
565 depends on PSI
566 help
567 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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568 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
569 kernel commandline during boot.
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571 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
572 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
573 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
574 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
575 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
576
577 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
578 used for, say Y.
579
580 Say N if unsure.
581
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584config CPU_ISOLATION
585 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 586 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 587 default y
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588 help
589 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
590 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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591 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
592 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
593
594 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 595
0af92d46 596source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
c903ff83 597
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598config BUILD_BIN2C
599 bool
600 default n
601
1da177e4 602config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 603 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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604 ---help---
605 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
606 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
607 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
608 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
609 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
610 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
611 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
612 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
613
614config IKCONFIG_PROC
615 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
616 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
617 ---help---
618 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
619 through /proc/config.gz.
620
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621config IKHEADERS
622 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
623 depends on SYSFS
624 help
625 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
626 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
627 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
628 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
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631 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 632 range 12 25
f17a32e9 633 default 17
361e9dfb 634 depends on PRINTK
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637 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
638 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
639 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
640
f17a32e9 641 Examples:
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645 14 => 16 KB
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647 12 => 4 KB
648
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649config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
650 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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652 range 0 21
653 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
654 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 655 depends on PRINTK
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657 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
658 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
659 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
660 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
661 e.g. backtraces.
662
663 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
664 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
665 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
666 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
667 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
668 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
669
670 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
671 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
672
673 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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675 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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677 Examples shift values and their meaning:
678 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
679 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
680 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
681 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
682 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
683 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
684
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686 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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688 default 13
f92bac3b 689 depends on PRINTK
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691 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
692 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
693 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
694 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
695 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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699 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
700
701 Examples:
702 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
703 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
704 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
705 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
706 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
707 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
708
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710# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
711#
712config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
713 bool
714
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716 bool
717
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719
720config UCLAMP_TASK
721 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
722 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
723 help
724 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
725 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
726
727 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
728 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
729 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
730 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
731
732 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
733 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
734 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
735
736 If in doubt, say N.
737
738config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
739 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
740 range 5 20
741 default 5
742 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
743 help
744 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
745 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
746 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
747 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
748
749 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
750 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
751 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
752 effective value to 25%.
753 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
754 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
755 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
756 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
757 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
758 that bucket.
759
760 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
761 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
762 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
763 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
764 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
765 precision.
766
767 If in doubt, use the default value.
768
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770
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772# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
773# balancing logic:
774#
775config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
776 bool
777
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779# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
780# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
781# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
782# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
783# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
784# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
785config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
786 bool
787
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789# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
790#
791config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
792 bool
793
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795# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
796#
797config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
798 bool
799
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801 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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803 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
804 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
805 help
806 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
807 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 808 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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810 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
811
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813 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
814 default y
815 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
816 help
817 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
818 machine.
819
23964d2d 820menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 821 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 822 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 823 help
23964d2d 824 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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825 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
826 controls or device isolation.
827 See
d6a3b247 828 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 829 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 830 and resource control)
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832 Say N if unsure.
833
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835
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836config PAGE_COUNTER
837 bool
838
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a0166ec4 840 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 841 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 842 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 843 help
a0166ec4 844 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 845
c255a458 846config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 847 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 848 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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850 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
851
c255a458 852config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 853 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 854 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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855 default y
856 help
857 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
858 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 859 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 860 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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861 parameter should have this option unselected.
862 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
863 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 864 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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866config MEMCG_KMEM
867 bool
868 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
869 default y
870
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872 bool "IO controller"
873 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 874 default n
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875 ---help---
876 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
877 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
878 policies.
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880 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
881 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
882 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
883 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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885 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
886 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
887 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
888 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
889 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
890
da82c92f 891 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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894 bool
895 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
896 default y
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7c941438 898menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 899 bool "CPU controller"
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901 help
902 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
903 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
904 tasks.
905
906if CGROUP_SCHED
907config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
908 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
909 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
910 default CGROUP_SCHED
911
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913 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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914 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
915 default n
916 help
917 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
918 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
919 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
920 restriction.
d6a3b247 921 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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924 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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926 default n
927 help
928 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 929 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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931 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 932 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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934endif #CGROUP_SCHED
935
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937 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
938 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
939 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
940 default n
941 help
942 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
943 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
944
945 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
946 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
947 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
948 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
949 frequency a task will always use.
950
951 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
952 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
953 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
954 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
955
956 If in doubt, say N.
957
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959 bool "PIDs controller"
960 help
961 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
962 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
963 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
964 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
965 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
966 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 967 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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969 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 970 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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972 attach to a cgroup.
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975 bool "RDMA controller"
976 help
977 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
978 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
979 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
980 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
981 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
982 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
983
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985 bool "Freezer controller"
986 help
987 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
988 cgroup.
989
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991 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
992
993 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
994
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996 bool "HugeTLB controller"
997 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
998 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 999 default n
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1001 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1002 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1003 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1004 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1005 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1006 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1007 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1008 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1009 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1012 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 1013 depends on SMP
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1015 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1016 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1017 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1018 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1019
6bf024e6 1020 Say N if unsure.
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1023 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1024 depends on CPUSETS
1025 default y
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1028 bool "Device controller"
1029 help
1030 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1031 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1032
1033config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1034 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1035 help
1036 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1037 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1038
1039config CGROUP_PERF
1040 bool "Perf controller"
1041 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1042 help
1043 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1044 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1045 designated cpu.
1046
1047 Say N if unsure.
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1050 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1052 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1054 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1055 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1056
1057 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1058 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1059 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1060 inet sockets.
1061
6bf024e6 1062config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1063 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1064 default n
23b0be48 1065 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1067 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1069 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1070 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1071
6bf024e6 1072 Say N.
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1075 bool
1076 default n
1077
23964d2d 1078endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1080menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1081 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1082 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1083 default !EXPERT
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1085 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1086 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1087 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1088 different namespaces.
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1093 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1094 default y
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1096 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1097 uname() system call
1098
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1100 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1101 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1102 default y
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1104 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1105 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1106
aee16ce7 1107config USER_NS
19c92399 1108 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1109 default n
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1111 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1112 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1114 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1116 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1117 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1120
74bd59bb 1121config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1122 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1123 default y
74bd59bb 1124 help
12d2b8f9 1125 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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1128
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1130 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1131 depends on NET
17a6d441 1132 default y
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1134 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1135 of the network stack.
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1140 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1141 select PROC_CHILDREN
1142 default n
1143 help
1144 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1145 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1146 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1147 entries.
1148
1149 If unsure, say N here.
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1152 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1154 select CGROUP_SCHED
1155 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1156 help
1157 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1158 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1159 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1160 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1161 upon task session.
1162
7af37bec 1163config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1164 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1166 default n
1167 help
1168 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1169 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1170 /sys/block/.
1171
1172 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1173 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1174
1175 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1176 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1177 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1178
1179 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1180 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1181 option enabled.
1182
1183 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1184 need to say Y here.
1185
1186config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1187 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1189 depends on SYSFS
1190 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1191 help
1192 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1193
1194 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1195 option.
1196
1197 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1198 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1199 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1200
1201config RELAY
1202 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
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1205 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1206 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1207 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1208 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1209 user space.
1210
1211 If unsure, say N.
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1214 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1216 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1217 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1218 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1219 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1220 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1222 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1223 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1224 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1225
1226 If unsure say Y.
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1235 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1236 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1238config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1239 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1240 help
1241 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1242 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1243 helpful compile-time warnings.
1244
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1245config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1246 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1247 depends on ARC
b303c6df 1248 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1249 help
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1250 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1251 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1252
c45b4f1f 1253config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1254 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
b303c6df 1255 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1256 help
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1257 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1258 in a smaller kernel.
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1260endchoice
1261
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1262config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1263 bool
1264 help
1265 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1266 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1267 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1268 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1269 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1270 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1271
1272config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1273 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1274 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1275 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1276 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1277 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1278 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1279 help
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1280 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1281 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1282 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1283
1284 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1285 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1286 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1287 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1288 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1289 own risk.
1290
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1291config SYSCTL
1292 bool
1293
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1294config HAVE_UID16
1295 bool
1296
1297config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1298 bool
1299 help
1300 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1301
1302config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1303 bool
1304 help
1305 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1306 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1307 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1308
1309config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1310 bool
1311 help
1312 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1313 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1314 the unaligned access emulation.
1315 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1316
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1317config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1318 bool
1319
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1320# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1321config BPF
1322 bool
1323
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1324menuconfig EXPERT
1325 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1326 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1327 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1328 help
1329 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1330 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1331 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1332 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1333
ae81f9e3 1334config UID16
6a108a14 1335 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1336 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1337 default y
1338 help
1339 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1340
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1341config MULTIUSER
1342 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1343 default y
1344 help
1345 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1346 capabilities.
1347
1348 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1349 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1350 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1351 setgid, and capset.
1352
1353 If unsure, say Y here.
1354
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1355config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1356 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1357 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1358 ---help---
1359 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1360 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1361 architectures.
1362
1363 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1364
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1365config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1366 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1367 default y
1368 ---help---
1369 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1370 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1371 compatibility with some systems.
1372
1373 If unsure say Y here.
1374
b89a8171 1375config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1376 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1377 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1378 default n
b89a8171 1379 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1380 ---help---
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1381 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1382 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1383 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1384 information.
b89a8171 1385
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1386 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1387 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1388 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1389
c736de60 1390 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1391
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1392config FHANDLE
1393 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1394 select EXPORTFS
1395 default y
1396 help
1397 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1398 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1399 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1400 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1401 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1402 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1403 syscalls.
1404
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1405config POSIX_TIMERS
1406 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1407 default y
1408 help
1409 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1410 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1411 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1412
1413 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1414 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1415 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1416 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1417 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1418 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1419
1420 If unsure say y.
1421
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1422config PRINTK
1423 default y
6a108a14 1424 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1425 select IRQ_WORK
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1426 help
1427 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1428 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1429 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1430 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1431 strongly discouraged.
1432
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1433config PRINTK_NMI
1434 def_bool y
1435 depends on PRINTK
1436 depends on HAVE_NMI
1437
c8538a7a 1438config BUG
6a108a14 1439 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1440 default y
1441 help
1442 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1443 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1444 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1445 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1446 Just say Y.
1447
708e9a79 1448config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1449 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1450 default y
6a108a14 1451 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1452 help
1453 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1454
8761f1ab 1455
e5e1d3cb 1456config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1457 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1458 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1459 select I8253_LOCK
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1460 default y
1461 help
1462 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1463 support, saving some memory.
1464
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1465config BASE_FULL
1466 default y
6a108a14 1467 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1468 help
1469 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1470 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1471 but may reduce performance.
1472
1473config FUTEX
6a108a14 1474 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1475 default y
bc2eecd7 1476 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1477 help
1478 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1479 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1480 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1481
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1482config FUTEX_PI
1483 bool
1484 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1485 default y
1486
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1487config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1488 bool
62b4d204 1489 depends on FUTEX
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1490 help
1491 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1492 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1493 checks.
1494
1da177e4 1495config EPOLL
6a108a14 1496 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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1497 default y
1498 help
1499 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1500 support for epoll family of system calls.
1501
fba2afaa 1502config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1503 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1504 default y
1505 help
1506 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1507 on a file descriptor.
1508
1509 If unsure, say Y.
1510
b215e283 1511config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1512 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1513 default y
1514 help
1515 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1516 events on a file descriptor.
1517
1518 If unsure, say Y.
1519
e1ad7468 1520config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1521 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1522 default y
1523 help
1524 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1525 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1526
1527 If unsure, say Y.
1528
1da177e4 1529config SHMEM
6a108a14 1530 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1531 default y
1532 depends on MMU
1533 help
1534 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1535 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1536 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1537 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1538 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1539
ebf3f09c 1540config AIO
6a108a14 1541 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1542 default y
1543 help
1544 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1545 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1546 this option saves about 7k.
1547
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1548config IO_URING
1549 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1550 select ANON_INODES
1551 default y
1552 help
1553 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1554 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1555 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1556
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1557config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1558 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1559 default y
1560 help
1561 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1562 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1563 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1564 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1565 space.
1566
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1567config MEMBARRIER
1568 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1569 default y
1570 help
1571 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1572 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1573 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1574 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1575 compiler barrier.
1576
1577 If unsure, say Y.
1578
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1579config KALLSYMS
1580 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1581 default y
1582 help
1583 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1584 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1585 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1586
1587config KALLSYMS_ALL
1588 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1589 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1590 help
1591 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1592 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1593 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1594 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1595 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1596
1597 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1598 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1599 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1600 something like this).
1601
1602 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1603
1604config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1605 bool
1606 depends on KALLSYMS
1607 default X86_64 && SMP
1608
1609config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1610 bool
1611 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1612 default !IA64
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1613 help
1614 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1615 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1616 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1617 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1618 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1619 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1620 address encountered in the image.
1621
1622 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1623 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1624 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1625 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1626
1627# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1628
1629# syscall, maps, verifier
1630config BPF_SYSCALL
1631 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1632 select BPF
bae77c5e 1633 select IRQ_WORK
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1634 default n
1635 help
1636 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1637 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1638
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1639config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1640 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1641 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1642 help
1643 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1644 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1645
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1646config USERFAULTFD
1647 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1648 depends on MMU
1649 help
1650 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1651 handle page faults in userland.
1652
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1653config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1654 bool
1655
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1656config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1657 bool
1658
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1659config RSEQ
1660 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1661 default y
1662 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1663 select MEMBARRIER
1664 help
1665 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1666 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1667 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1668 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1669 per-CPU data.
1670
1671 If unsure, say Y.
1672
1673config DEBUG_RSEQ
1674 default n
1675 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1676 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1677 help
1678 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1679
1680 If unsure, say N.
1681
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1682config EMBEDDED
1683 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1684 option allnoconfig_y
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1685 select EXPERT
1686 help
1687 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1688 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1689 for configuration.
1690
cdd6c482 1691config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1692 bool
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1693 help
1694 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1695
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1696config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1697 bool
1698 help
1699 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1700
ad90a3de 1701config PC104
424529fb 1702 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1703 help
1704 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1705 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1706 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1707
57c0c15b 1708menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1709
cdd6c482 1710config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1711 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1712 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1713 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1714 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1715 select SRCU
0793a61d 1716 help
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1717 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1718 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1719
dd77038d 1720 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1721 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1722
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1723 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1724 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1725 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1726 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1727 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1728 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1729 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1730
57c0c15b 1731 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1732 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1733 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1734 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1735 capabilities on top of those.
1736
1737 Say Y if unsure.
1738
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1739config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1740 default n
1741 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1742 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1743 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1744 help
1745 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1746
1747 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1748 that don't require it.
1749
1750 Say N if unsure.
1751
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1752endmenu
1753
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1754config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1755 default y
6a108a14 1756 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1757 help
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1758 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1759 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1760 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1761 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1762
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1763config SLUB_DEBUG
1764 default y
6a108a14 1765 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1766 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1767 help
1768 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1769 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1770 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1771 no support for cache validation etc.
1772
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1773config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1774 default n
1775 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1776 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1777 help
1778 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1779 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1780 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1781 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1782 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1783 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1784 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1785 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1786
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1787config COMPAT_BRK
1788 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1789 default y
1790 help
1791 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1792 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1793 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1794 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1795 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1796
1797 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1798
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1799choice
1800 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1801 default SLUB
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1802 help
1803 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1804
1805config SLAB
1806 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1807 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1808 help
1809 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1810 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1811 per cpu and per node queues.
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1812
1813config SLUB
81819f0f 1814 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1815 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1816 help
1817 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1818 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1819 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1820 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1821 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1822 a slab allocator.
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1823
1824config SLOB
6a108a14 1825 depends on EXPERT
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1826 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1827 help
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1828 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1829 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1830 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1831
1832endchoice
1833
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1834config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1835 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1836 default y
1837 help
1838 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1839 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1840 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1841 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1842 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1843 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1844 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1845 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1846 command line.
1847
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1848config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1849 default n
210e7a43 1850 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1851 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1852 help
210e7a43 1853 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1854 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1855 allocator against heap overflows.
1856
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1857config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1858 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1859 depends on SLUB
1860 help
1861 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1862 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1863 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1864 freelist exploit methods.
1865
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1867 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1868 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1869 help
1870 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1871 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1872 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1873 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1874 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1875 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1876 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1877 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1878 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1879 benefits on x86.
1880
1881 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1882 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1883 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1884 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1885 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1886 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1887
1888 Say Y if unsure.
1889
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1890config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1891 default y
b39ffbf8 1892 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1893 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1894 help
92bae787 1895 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1896 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1897 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1898 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1899 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1900
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1901config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1902 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1903 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1904 default n
1905 help
1906 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1907 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1908 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1909 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1910 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1911 then the flag will be ignored.
1912
1913 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1914 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1915
1916 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1917 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1918 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1919 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1920
1921 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1922
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1924 def_bool n
1925 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1926 select KEYS
1927 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1928 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1929 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1930 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1931 select ASN1
1932 select OID_REGISTRY
1933 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1934 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1935 help
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1936 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1937 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1938 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1939 verification.
82c04ff8 1940
125e5645 1941config PROFILING
b309a294 1942 bool "Profiling support"
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1943 help
1944 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1945 by profilers such as OProfile.
1946
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1947#
1948# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1949# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1950#
97e1c18e 1951config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1952 bool
97e1c18e 1953
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1955
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1956source "arch/Kconfig"
1957
ae81f9e3 1958config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1959 bool
ae81f9e3 1960
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1961config BASE_SMALL
1962 int
1963 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1964 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1965
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1966config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1967 def_bool n
1968 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1969
66da5733 1970menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1971 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1972 option modules
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1973 help
1974 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1975 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1976 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1977 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1978 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1979 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1980 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1981 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1982 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1983
1984 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1985 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1986 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1987 this).
1988
1989 If unsure, say Y.
1990
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1992
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1993config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1994 bool "Forced module loading"
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1995 default n
1996 help
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1997 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1998 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1999 is usually a really bad idea.
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2001config MODULE_UNLOAD
2002 bool "Module unloading"
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2003 help
2004 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2005 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2006 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2007 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2009config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2010 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2011 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2012 help
2013 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2014 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2015 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2016 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2017 If unsure, say N.
2018
1da177e4 2019config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2020 bool "Module versioning support"
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2021 help
2022 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2023 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2024 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2025 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2026 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2027 unsure, say N.
2028
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2029config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2030 bool
2031 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2032 help
2033 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2034 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2035 supports it.
2036
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2038 bool
2039 depends on MODVERSIONS
2040
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2041config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2042 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2043 help
2044 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2045 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2046 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2047 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2048 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2049 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2050 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2051
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2053 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2054 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2055 help
2056 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2057 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2058 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2060 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2061 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2062 library.
2063
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2064 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2065 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2066 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2067 of the lockdown policy.
2068
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2069 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2070 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2071 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2072 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2073
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2074config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2075 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2076 depends on MODULE_SIG
2077 help
2078 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2079 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2081config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2082 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2083 default y
2084 depends on MODULE_SIG
2085 help
2086 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2087 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2088
2089comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2090 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2091
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2092choice
2093 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2094 depends on MODULE_SIG
2095 help
2096 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2097 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2098 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2099 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2100 the signature on that module.
2101
2102config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2103 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2104 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2105
2106config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2107 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2108 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2109
2110config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2111 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2112 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2113
2114config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2115 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2116 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2117
2118config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2119 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2120 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2121
2122endchoice
2123
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2124config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2125 string
2126 depends on MODULE_SIG
2127 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2128 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2129 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2130 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2131 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2132
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2133config MODULE_COMPRESS
2134 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2135 help
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2137 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2138 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2140 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2142 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2143 compressed upon installation.
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2145 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2146 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2148 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2149
2150 If in doubt, say N.
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2151
2152choice
2153 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2154 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2155 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2156 help
2157 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2158 'make modules_install'.
2159
2160 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2161
2162config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2163 bool "GZIP"
2164
2165config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2166 bool "XZ"
2167
2168endchoice
2169
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2170config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2171 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2172 help
2173 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2174 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2175 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2176 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2177 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2178 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2179 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2180
2181 If unsure, say N.
2182
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2183config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2184 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2185 default y if X86
2186 help
2187 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2188 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2189 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2190 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2191 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2192 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2193 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2194 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2195 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2196 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2197 your module is.
2198
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2199config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2200 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2201 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2202 help
2203 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2204 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2205 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2206 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2207
2208 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2209 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2210 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2211 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2212
f1cb637e 2213 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2216
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2217config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2218 def_bool y
2219 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2220
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2221config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2222 bool
2223 help
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2224 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2225 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2226 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2227 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2228 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2230source "block/Kconfig"
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2232config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2233 bool
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2235config PADATA
2236 depends on SMP
2237 bool
2238
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2239config ASN1
2240 tristate
2241 help
2242 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2243 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2244 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2245 functions to call on what tags.
2246
6beb0009 2247source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2249config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2250 bool
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2251
2252# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2253# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2254# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2255# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2256# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2257# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2258# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2259config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2260 def_bool n