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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)
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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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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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411
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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559
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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685config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
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 def_bool y
790 depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0)
791
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792#
793# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
794#
795config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
796 bool
797
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799# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
800#
801config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
802 bool
803
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805 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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807 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
808 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
809 help
810 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
811 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 812 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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814 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
815
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817 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
818 default y
819 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
820 help
821 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
822 machine.
823
23964d2d 824menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 825 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 826 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 827 help
23964d2d 828 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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829 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
830 controls or device isolation.
831 See
d6a3b247 832 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 833 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 834 and resource control)
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836 Say N if unsure.
837
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839
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840config PAGE_COUNTER
841 bool
842
c255a458 843config MEMCG
a0166ec4 844 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 845 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 846 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 847 help
a0166ec4 848 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 849
c255a458 850config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 851 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 852 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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854 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
855
c255a458 856config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 857 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 858 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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859 default y
860 help
861 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
862 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 863 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 864 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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865 parameter should have this option unselected.
866 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
867 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 868 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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870config MEMCG_KMEM
871 bool
872 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
873 default y
874
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876 bool "IO controller"
877 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 878 default n
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879 ---help---
880 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
881 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
882 policies.
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885 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
886 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
887 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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889 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
890 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
891 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
892 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
893 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
894
da82c92f 895 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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898 bool
899 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
900 default y
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7c941438 902menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 903 bool "CPU controller"
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905 help
906 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
907 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
908 tasks.
909
910if CGROUP_SCHED
911config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
912 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
913 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
914 default CGROUP_SCHED
915
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917 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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918 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
919 default n
920 help
921 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
922 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
923 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
924 restriction.
d6a3b247 925 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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928 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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930 default n
931 help
932 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 933 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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935 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 936 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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938endif #CGROUP_SCHED
939
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941 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
942 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
943 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
944 default n
945 help
946 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
947 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
948
949 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
950 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
951 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
952 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
953 frequency a task will always use.
954
955 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
956 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
957 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
958 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
959
960 If in doubt, say N.
961
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963 bool "PIDs controller"
964 help
965 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
966 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
967 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
968 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
969 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
970 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 971 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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973 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 974 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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976 attach to a cgroup.
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979 bool "RDMA controller"
980 help
981 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
982 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
983 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
984 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
985 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
986 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
987
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989 bool "Freezer controller"
990 help
991 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
992 cgroup.
993
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995 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
996
997 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
998
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1000 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1001 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1002 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1003 default n
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1005 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1006 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1007 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1008 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1009 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1010 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1011 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1012 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1013 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1016 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 1017 depends on SMP
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1019 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1020 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1021 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1022 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1023
6bf024e6 1024 Say N if unsure.
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1027 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1028 depends on CPUSETS
1029 default y
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1032 bool "Device controller"
1033 help
1034 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1035 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1036
1037config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1038 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1039 help
1040 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1041 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1042
1043config CGROUP_PERF
1044 bool "Perf controller"
1045 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1046 help
1047 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1048 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1049 designated cpu.
1050
1051 Say N if unsure.
1052
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1054 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1056 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1058 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1059 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1060
1061 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1062 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1063 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1064 inet sockets.
1065
6bf024e6 1066config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1067 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1068 default n
23b0be48 1069 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1071 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1073 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1074 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1075
6bf024e6 1076 Say N.
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1079 bool
1080 default n
1081
23964d2d 1082endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1084menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1085 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1086 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1087 default !EXPERT
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1089 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1090 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1091 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1092 different namespaces.
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1097 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1098 default y
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1100 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1101 uname() system call
1102
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1104 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1105 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1106 default y
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1108 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1109 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1110
aee16ce7 1111config USER_NS
19c92399 1112 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1113 default n
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1115 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1116 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1118 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1120 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1121 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1124
74bd59bb 1125config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1126 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1127 default y
74bd59bb 1128 help
12d2b8f9 1129 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1130 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1132
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1134 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1135 depends on NET
17a6d441 1136 default y
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1138 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1139 of the network stack.
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1144 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1145 select PROC_CHILDREN
1146 default n
1147 help
1148 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1149 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1150 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1151 entries.
1152
1153 If unsure, say N here.
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1156 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1158 select CGROUP_SCHED
1159 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1160 help
1161 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1162 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1163 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1164 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1165 upon task session.
1166
7af37bec 1167config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1168 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1170 default n
1171 help
1172 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1173 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1174 /sys/block/.
1175
1176 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1177 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1178
1179 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1180 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1181 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1182
1183 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1184 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1185 option enabled.
1186
1187 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1188 need to say Y here.
1189
1190config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1191 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1193 depends on SYSFS
1194 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1195 help
1196 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1197
1198 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1199 option.
1200
1201 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1202 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1203 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1204
1205config RELAY
1206 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
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1209 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1210 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1211 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1212 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1213 user space.
1214
1215 If unsure, say N.
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1218 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1220 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1221 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1222 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1223 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1224 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1226 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1227 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1228 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1229
1230 If unsure say Y.
1231
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1239 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1240 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1241
1242config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1243 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1244 help
1245 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1246 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1247 helpful compile-time warnings.
1248
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1249config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1250 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1251 depends on ARC
b303c6df 1252 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1253 help
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1254 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1255 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1256
c45b4f1f 1257config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1258 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
b303c6df 1259 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1260 help
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1261 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1262 in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1263
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1264endchoice
1265
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1266config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1267 bool
1268 help
1269 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1270 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1271 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1272 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1273 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1274 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1275
1276config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1277 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1278 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1279 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1280 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1281 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1282 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1283 help
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1284 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1285 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1286 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1287
1288 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1289 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1290 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1291 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1292 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1293 own risk.
1294
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1295config SYSCTL
1296 bool
1297
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1298config HAVE_UID16
1299 bool
1300
1301config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1302 bool
1303 help
1304 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1305
1306config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1307 bool
1308 help
1309 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1310 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1311 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1312
1313config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1314 bool
1315 help
1316 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1317 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1318 the unaligned access emulation.
1319 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1320
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1321config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1322 bool
1323
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1324# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1325config BPF
1326 bool
1327
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1328menuconfig EXPERT
1329 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1330 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1331 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1332 help
1333 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1334 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1335 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1336 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1337
ae81f9e3 1338config UID16
6a108a14 1339 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1340 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1341 default y
1342 help
1343 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1344
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1345config MULTIUSER
1346 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1347 default y
1348 help
1349 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1350 capabilities.
1351
1352 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1353 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1354 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1355 setgid, and capset.
1356
1357 If unsure, say Y here.
1358
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1359config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1360 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1361 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1362 ---help---
1363 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1364 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1365 architectures.
1366
1367 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1368
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1369config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1370 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1371 default y
1372 ---help---
1373 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1374 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1375 compatibility with some systems.
1376
1377 If unsure say Y here.
1378
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1379config FHANDLE
1380 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1381 select EXPORTFS
1382 default y
1383 help
1384 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1385 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1386 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1387 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1388 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1389 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1390 syscalls.
1391
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1392config POSIX_TIMERS
1393 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1394 default y
1395 help
1396 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1397 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1398 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1399
1400 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1401 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1402 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1403 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1404 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1405 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1406
1407 If unsure say y.
1408
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1409config PRINTK
1410 default y
6a108a14 1411 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1412 select IRQ_WORK
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1413 help
1414 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1415 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1416 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1417 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1418 strongly discouraged.
1419
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1420config PRINTK_NMI
1421 def_bool y
1422 depends on PRINTK
1423 depends on HAVE_NMI
1424
c8538a7a 1425config BUG
6a108a14 1426 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1427 default y
1428 help
1429 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1430 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1431 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1432 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1433 Just say Y.
1434
708e9a79 1435config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1436 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1437 default y
6a108a14 1438 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1439 help
1440 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1441
8761f1ab 1442
e5e1d3cb 1443config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1444 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1445 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1446 select I8253_LOCK
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1447 default y
1448 help
1449 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1450 support, saving some memory.
1451
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1452config BASE_FULL
1453 default y
6a108a14 1454 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1455 help
1456 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1457 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1458 but may reduce performance.
1459
1460config FUTEX
6a108a14 1461 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1462 default y
bc2eecd7 1463 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1464 help
1465 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1466 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1467 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1468
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1469config FUTEX_PI
1470 bool
1471 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1472 default y
1473
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1474config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1475 bool
62b4d204 1476 depends on FUTEX
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1477 help
1478 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1479 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1480 checks.
1481
1da177e4 1482config EPOLL
6a108a14 1483 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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1484 default y
1485 help
1486 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1487 support for epoll family of system calls.
1488
fba2afaa 1489config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1490 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1491 default y
1492 help
1493 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1494 on a file descriptor.
1495
1496 If unsure, say Y.
1497
b215e283 1498config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1499 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1500 default y
1501 help
1502 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1503 events on a file descriptor.
1504
1505 If unsure, say Y.
1506
e1ad7468 1507config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1508 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1509 default y
1510 help
1511 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1512 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1513
1514 If unsure, say Y.
1515
1da177e4 1516config SHMEM
6a108a14 1517 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1518 default y
1519 depends on MMU
1520 help
1521 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1522 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1523 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1524 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1525 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1526
ebf3f09c 1527config AIO
6a108a14 1528 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1529 default y
1530 help
1531 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1532 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1533 this option saves about 7k.
1534
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1535config IO_URING
1536 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1537 select ANON_INODES
561fb04a 1538 select IO_WQ
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1539 default y
1540 help
1541 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1542 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1543 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1544
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1545config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1546 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1547 default y
1548 help
1549 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1550 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1551 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1552 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1553 space.
1554
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1555config MEMBARRIER
1556 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1557 default y
1558 help
1559 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1560 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1561 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1562 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1563 compiler barrier.
1564
1565 If unsure, say Y.
1566
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1567config KALLSYMS
1568 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1569 default y
1570 help
1571 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1572 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1573 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1574
1575config KALLSYMS_ALL
1576 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1577 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1578 help
1579 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1580 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1581 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1582 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1583 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1584
1585 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1586 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1587 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1588 something like this).
1589
1590 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1591
1592config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1593 bool
1594 depends on KALLSYMS
1595 default X86_64 && SMP
1596
1597config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1598 bool
1599 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1600 default !IA64
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1601 help
1602 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1603 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1604 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1605 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1606 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1607 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1608 address encountered in the image.
1609
1610 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1611 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1612 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1613 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1614
1615# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1616
1617# syscall, maps, verifier
1618config BPF_SYSCALL
1619 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1620 select BPF
bae77c5e 1621 select IRQ_WORK
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1622 default n
1623 help
1624 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1625 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1626
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1627config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1628 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1629 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1630 help
1631 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1632 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1633
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1634config USERFAULTFD
1635 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1636 depends on MMU
1637 help
1638 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1639 handle page faults in userland.
1640
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1641config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1642 bool
1643
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1644config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1645 bool
1646
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1647config RSEQ
1648 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1649 default y
1650 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1651 select MEMBARRIER
1652 help
1653 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1654 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1655 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1656 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1657 per-CPU data.
1658
1659 If unsure, say Y.
1660
1661config DEBUG_RSEQ
1662 default n
1663 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1664 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1665 help
1666 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1667
1668 If unsure, say N.
1669
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1670config EMBEDDED
1671 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1672 option allnoconfig_y
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1673 select EXPERT
1674 help
1675 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1676 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1677 for configuration.
1678
cdd6c482 1679config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1680 bool
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1681 help
1682 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1683
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1684config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1685 bool
1686 help
1687 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1688
ad90a3de 1689config PC104
424529fb 1690 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1691 help
1692 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1693 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1694 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1695
57c0c15b 1696menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1697
cdd6c482 1698config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1699 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1700 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1701 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1702 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1703 select SRCU
0793a61d 1704 help
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1705 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1706 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1707
dd77038d 1708 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1709 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1710
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1711 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1712 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1713 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1714 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1715 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1716 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1717 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1718
57c0c15b 1719 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1720 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1721 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1722 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1723 capabilities on top of those.
1724
1725 Say Y if unsure.
1726
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1727config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1728 default n
1729 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1730 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1731 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1732 help
1733 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1734
1735 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1736 that don't require it.
1737
1738 Say N if unsure.
1739
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1740endmenu
1741
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1742config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1743 default y
6a108a14 1744 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1745 help
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1746 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1747 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1748 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1749 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1750
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1751config SLUB_DEBUG
1752 default y
6a108a14 1753 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1754 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1755 help
1756 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1757 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1758 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1759 no support for cache validation etc.
1760
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1761config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1762 default n
1763 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1764 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1765 help
1766 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1767 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1768 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1769 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1770 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1771 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1772 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1773 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1774
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1775config COMPAT_BRK
1776 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1777 default y
1778 help
1779 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1780 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1781 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1782 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1783 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1784
1785 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1786
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1787choice
1788 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1789 default SLUB
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1790 help
1791 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1792
1793config SLAB
1794 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1795 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1796 help
1797 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1798 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1799 per cpu and per node queues.
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1801config SLUB
81819f0f 1802 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1803 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1804 help
1805 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1806 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1807 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1808 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1809 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1810 a slab allocator.
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1811
1812config SLOB
6a108a14 1813 depends on EXPERT
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1814 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1815 help
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1816 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1817 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1818 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1819
1820endchoice
1821
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1822config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1823 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1824 default y
1825 help
1826 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1827 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1828 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1829 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1830 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1831 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1832 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1833 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1834 command line.
1835
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1836config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1837 default n
210e7a43 1838 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1839 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1840 help
210e7a43 1841 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1842 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1843 allocator against heap overflows.
1844
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1845config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1846 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1847 depends on SLUB
1848 help
1849 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1850 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1851 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1852 freelist exploit methods.
1853
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1855 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1856 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1857 help
1858 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1859 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1860 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1861 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1862 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1863 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1864 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1865 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1866 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1867 benefits on x86.
1868
1869 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1870 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1871 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1872 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1873 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1874 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1875
1876 Say Y if unsure.
1877
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1878config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1879 default y
b39ffbf8 1880 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1881 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1882 help
92bae787 1883 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1884 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1885 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1886 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1887 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1888
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1889config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1890 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1891 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1892 default n
1893 help
1894 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1895 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1896 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1897 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1898 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1899 then the flag will be ignored.
1900
1901 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1902 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1903
1904 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1905 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1906 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1907 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1908
1909 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1910
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1911config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1912 def_bool n
1913 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1914 select KEYS
1915 select CRYPTO
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1917 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1918 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1919 select ASN1
1920 select OID_REGISTRY
1921 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1922 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1923 help
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1924 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1925 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1926 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1927 verification.
82c04ff8 1928
125e5645 1929config PROFILING
b309a294 1930 bool "Profiling support"
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1931 help
1932 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1933 by profilers such as OProfile.
1934
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1936# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1937# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1938#
97e1c18e 1939config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1940 bool
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1942endmenu # General setup
1943
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1944source "arch/Kconfig"
1945
ae81f9e3 1946config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1947 bool
ae81f9e3 1948
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1949config BASE_SMALL
1950 int
1951 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1952 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1953
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1954config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1955 def_bool n
1956 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1957
66da5733 1958menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1959 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1960 option modules
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1961 help
1962 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1963 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1964 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1965 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1966 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1967 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1968 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1969 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1970 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1971
1972 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1973 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1974 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1975 this).
1976
1977 If unsure, say Y.
1978
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1980
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1981config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1982 bool "Forced module loading"
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1983 default n
1984 help
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1985 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1986 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1987 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1988
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1989config MODULE_UNLOAD
1990 bool "Module unloading"
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1991 help
1992 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1993 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1995 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1997config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1998 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1999 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2000 help
2001 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2002 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2003 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2004 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2005 If unsure, say N.
2006
1da177e4 2007config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2008 bool "Module versioning support"
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2009 help
2010 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2011 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2012 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2013 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2014 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2015 unsure, say N.
2016
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2017config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2018 bool
2019 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2020 help
2021 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2022 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2023 supports it.
2024
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2026 bool
2027 depends on MODVERSIONS
2028
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2029config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2030 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2031 help
2032 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2033 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2034 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2035 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2036 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2037 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2038 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2039
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2041 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2042 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2043 help
2044 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2045 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2046 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2048 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2049 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2050 library.
2051
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2052 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2053 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2054 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2055 of the lockdown policy.
2056
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2057 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2058 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2059 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2060 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2061
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2062config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2063 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2064 depends on MODULE_SIG
2065 help
2066 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2067 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2069config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2070 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2071 default y
2072 depends on MODULE_SIG
2073 help
2074 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2075 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2076
2077comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2078 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2079
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2080choice
2081 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2082 depends on MODULE_SIG
2083 help
2084 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2085 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2086 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2087 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2088 the signature on that module.
2089
2090config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2091 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2092 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2093
2094config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2095 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2096 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2097
2098config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2099 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2100 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2101
2102config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2103 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2104 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2105
2106config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2107 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2108 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2109
2110endchoice
2111
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2112config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2113 string
2114 depends on MODULE_SIG
2115 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2116 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2117 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2118 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2119 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2120
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2121config MODULE_COMPRESS
2122 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2123 help
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2125 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2126 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2128 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2130 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2131 compressed upon installation.
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2133 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2134 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2136 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2137
2138 If in doubt, say N.
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2139
2140choice
2141 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2142 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2143 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2144 help
2145 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2146 'make modules_install'.
2147
2148 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2149
2150config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2151 bool "GZIP"
2152
2153config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2154 bool "XZ"
2155
2156endchoice
2157
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2158config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2159 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2160 help
2161 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2162 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2163 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2164 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2165 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2166 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2167 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2168
2169 If unsure, say N.
2170
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2171config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2172 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2173 default y if X86
2174 help
2175 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2176 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2177 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2178 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2179 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2180 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2181 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2182 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2183 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2184 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2185 your module is.
2186
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2187config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2188 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2189 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2190 help
2191 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2192 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2193 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2194 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2195
2196 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2197 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2198 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2199 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2200
f1cb637e 2201 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2204
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2205config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2206 def_bool y
2207 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2208
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2209config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2210 bool
2211 help
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2212 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2213 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2214 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2215 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2216 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2218source "block/Kconfig"
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2220config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2221 bool
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2223config PADATA
2224 depends on SMP
2225 bool
2226
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2227config ASN1
2228 tristate
2229 help
2230 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2231 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2232 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2233 functions to call on what tags.
2234
6beb0009 2235source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2237config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2238 bool
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2240# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2241# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2242# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2243# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2244# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2245# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2246# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2247config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2248 def_bool n