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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2config DEFCONFIG_LIST
3 string
b2670eac 4 depends on !UML
face4374 5 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 7 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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9 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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12config CC_IS_GCC
13 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14
15config GCC_VERSION
16 int
fa7295ab 17 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
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18 default 0
19
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20config CC_IS_CLANG
21 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22
23config CLANG_VERSION
24 int
25 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26
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27config CC_CAN_LINK
28 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
29
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30config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32
5cf896fb 33config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 34 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
5cf896fb 35
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36config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
37 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
38
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39config CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
40 def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
41 help
42 GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
43
44config CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
45 bool
46 depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
47 default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
48 help
49 GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
50 Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
51
52 If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
53 to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
54
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55config CONSTRUCTORS
56 bool
87c9366e 57 depends on !UML
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59config IRQ_WORK
60 bool
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62config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
63 bool
64
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65config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
66 bool
67 help
68 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
69 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
70 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
71
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72 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
73 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
74
ff0cfc66 75menu "General setup"
1da177e4 76
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77config BROKEN
78 bool
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79
80config BROKEN_ON_SMP
81 bool
82 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
83 default y
84
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85config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
86 int
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87 default 32 if !UML
88 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 89 help
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90 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
91 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 92
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93config COMPILE_TEST
94 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 95 depends on !UML
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96 default n
97 help
98 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
99 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
100 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
101 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
102 drivers to compile-test them.
103
104 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
105 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
106 drivers to be distributed.
107
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108config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
109 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
fcbb8461 110 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
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111 help
112 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
113 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
114
115 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
116 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
117
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118config LOCALVERSION
119 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
120 help
121 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
122 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
123 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
124 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
125 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
126 be a maximum of 64 characters.
127
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128config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
129 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
130 default y
ac3339ba 131 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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132 help
133 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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134 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
135 top of tree revision.
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136
137 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 138 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 139 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 140 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 141
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142 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
143 by running the command:
144
145 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
146
147 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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9afb719e 149config BUILD_SALT
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150 string "Build ID Salt"
151 default ""
152 help
153 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
154 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
155 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
156 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
9afb719e 157
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158config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
159 bool
160
161config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
162 bool
163
164config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
165 bool
166
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167config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 bool
169
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170config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
171 bool
172
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173config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
174 bool
175
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176config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
177 bool
178
30d65dbf 179choice
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180 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
181 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 183 help
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184 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
185 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
186 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
187 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
188 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
189
190 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
191 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
192 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
193 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
194
195 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
196 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
197 size matters less.
198
199 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
200
201config KERNEL_GZIP
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202 bool "Gzip"
203 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
204 help
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205 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
206 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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207
208config KERNEL_BZIP2
209 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 210 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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211 help
212 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 213 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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214 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
215 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
216 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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217
218config KERNEL_LZMA
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219 bool "LZMA"
220 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
221 help
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222 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
223 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
224 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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226config KERNEL_XZ
227 bool "XZ"
228 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
229 help
230 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
231 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
232 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
233 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
234 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
235 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
236
237 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
238 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
239 and LZO. Compression is slow.
240
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241config KERNEL_LZO
242 bool "LZO"
243 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
244 help
0a4dd35c 245 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 246 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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247 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
248
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249config KERNEL_LZ4
250 bool "LZ4"
251 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
252 help
253 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
254 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
255 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
256
257 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
258 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
259 faster than LZO.
260
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261config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
262 bool "None"
263 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
264 help
265 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
266 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
267 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
268 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
269 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
270
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271endchoice
272
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273config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
274 string "Default hostname"
275 default "(none)"
276 help
277 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
278 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
279 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
280 system more usable with less configuration.
281
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282#
283# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
284# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
285#
286config ARCH_NO_SWAP
287 bool
288
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289config SWAP
290 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 291 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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292 default y
293 help
294 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 295 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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296 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
297 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
298
299config SYSVIPC
300 bool "System V IPC"
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301 ---help---
302 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
303 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
304 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
305 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
306 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
307 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
308 you'll need to say Y here.
309
310 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
311 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
312 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
313
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314config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
315 bool
316 depends on SYSVIPC
317 depends on SYSCTL
318 default y
319
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320config POSIX_MQUEUE
321 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 322 depends on NET
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323 ---help---
324 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
325 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
326 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
327 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 328 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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329
330 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
331 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
332 operations on message queues.
333
334 If unsure, say Y.
335
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336config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
337 bool
338 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
339 depends on SYSCTL
340 default y
341
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342config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
343 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
344 depends on MMU
345 default y
346 help
347 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
348 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 349 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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350 See the man page for more details.
351
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352config USELIB
353 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 354 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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355 help
356 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
357 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
358 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
359 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
360 running glibc can safely disable this.
361
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362config AUDIT
363 bool "Auditing support"
364 depends on NET
365 help
366 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
367 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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368 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
369 on architectures which support it.
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371config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
372 bool
373
391dc69c 374config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 375 def_bool y
7a017721 376 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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377 select FSNOTIFY
378
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379source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
380source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 381source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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382
383menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
384
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385config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
386 bool
387
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388choice
389 prompt "Cputime accounting"
390 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 391 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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392
393# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
394config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
395 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 396 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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397 help
398 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
399 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
400 granularity.
401
402 If unsure, say Y.
403
abf917cd 404config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 405 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 406 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 407 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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408 help
409 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
410 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
411 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
412 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
413 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
414 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
415 systems.
416
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417config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
418 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 419 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 420 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
041a1574 421 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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422 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
423 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
424 help
425 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
426 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
427 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
428 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
429 overhead.
430
431 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
432 dynticks subsystem development.
433
434 If unsure, say N.
435
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437
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438config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
439 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 440 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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441 help
442 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
443 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
444 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
445 small performance impact.
446
447 If in doubt, say N here.
448
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449config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
450 def_bool y
451 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
452 depends on SMP
453
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454config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
455 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 456 depends on MULTIUSER
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457 help
458 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
459 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
460 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
461 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
462 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
463 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
464 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
465 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
466 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
467
468config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
469 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
470 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
471 default n
472 help
473 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
474 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 475 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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476 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
477 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 478 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 479
c757249a 480config TASKSTATS
19c92399 481 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 482 depends on NET
2813893f 483 depends on MULTIUSER
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484 default n
485 help
486 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
487 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
488 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
489 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
490 space on task exit.
491
492 Say N if unsure.
493
ca74e92b 494config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 495 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 496 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 497 select SCHED_INFO
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498 help
499 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
500 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
501 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
502 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
503
504 Say N if unsure.
505
18f705f4 506config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 507 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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508 depends on TASKSTATS
509 help
510 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
511 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
512
513 Say N if unsure.
514
515config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 516 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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517 depends on TASK_XACCT
518 help
519 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
520 task has caused.
521
522 Say N if unsure.
523
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524config PSI
525 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
526 help
527 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
528 and IO capacity are in the system.
529
530 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
531 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
532 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
533 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
534
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535 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
536 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
537 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
538
c3123552 539 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
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541 Say N if unsure.
542
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543config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
544 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
545 default n
546 depends on PSI
547 help
548 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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549 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
550 kernel commandline during boot.
e0c27447 551
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552 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
553 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
554 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
555 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
556 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
557
558 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
559 used for, say Y.
560
561 Say N if unsure.
562
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d9817ebe 564
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565config CPU_ISOLATION
566 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 567 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 568 default y
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569 help
570 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
571 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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572 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
573 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
574
575 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 576
0af92d46 577source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
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579config BUILD_BIN2C
580 bool
581 default n
582
1da177e4 583config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 584 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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585 ---help---
586 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
587 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
588 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
589 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
590 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
591 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
592 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
593 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
594
595config IKCONFIG_PROC
596 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
597 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
598 ---help---
599 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
600 through /proc/config.gz.
601
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602config IKHEADERS
603 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
604 depends on SYSFS
605 help
606 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
607 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
608 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
609 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
43d8ce9d 610
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611config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
612 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 613 range 12 25
f17a32e9 614 default 17
361e9dfb 615 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 616 help
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617 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
618 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
619 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
620 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
621
f17a32e9 622 Examples:
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626 14 => 16 KB
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628 12 => 4 KB
629
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631 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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633 range 0 21
634 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
635 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 636 depends on PRINTK
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638 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
639 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
640 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
641 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
642 e.g. backtraces.
643
644 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
645 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
646 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
647 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
648 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
649 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
650
651 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
652 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
653
654 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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656 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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658 Examples shift values and their meaning:
659 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
660 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
661 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
662 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
663 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
664 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
665
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666config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
667 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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669 default 13
f92bac3b 670 depends on PRINTK
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672 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
673 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
674 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
675 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
676 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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680 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
681
682 Examples:
683 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
684 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
685 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
686 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
687 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
688 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
689
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691# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
692#
693config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
694 bool
695
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697 bool
698
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700
701config UCLAMP_TASK
702 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
703 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
704 help
705 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
706 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
707
708 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
709 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
710 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
711 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
712
713 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
714 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
715 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
716
717 If in doubt, say N.
718
719config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
720 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
721 range 5 20
722 default 5
723 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
724 help
725 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
726 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
727 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
728 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
729
730 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
731 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
732 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
733 effective value to 25%.
734 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
735 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
736 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
737 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
738 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
739 that bucket.
740
741 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
742 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
743 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
744 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
745 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
746 precision.
747
748 If in doubt, use the default value.
749
750endmenu
751
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753# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
754# balancing logic:
755#
756config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
757 bool
758
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760# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
761# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
762# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
763# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
764# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
765# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
766config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
767 bool
768
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770 def_bool y
771 depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0)
772
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774# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
775#
776config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
777 bool
778
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779# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
780# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
781#
782config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
783 bool
784
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786 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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788 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
789 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
790 help
791 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
792 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 793 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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795 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
796
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798 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
799 default y
800 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
801 help
802 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
803 machine.
804
23964d2d 805menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 806 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 807 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 808 help
23964d2d 809 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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810 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
811 controls or device isolation.
812 See
d6a3b247 813 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 814 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 815 and resource control)
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817 Say N if unsure.
818
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820
3e32cb2e 821config PAGE_COUNTER
e8cf4e9c 822 bool
3e32cb2e 823
c255a458 824config MEMCG
a0166ec4 825 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 826 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 827 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 828 help
a0166ec4 829 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 830
c255a458 831config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 832 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 833 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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835 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
836
c255a458 837config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 838 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 839 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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840 default y
841 help
842 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
843 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 844 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 845 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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846 parameter should have this option unselected.
847 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
848 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 849 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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852 bool
853 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
854 default y
855
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856config BLK_CGROUP
857 bool "IO controller"
858 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 859 default n
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860 ---help---
861 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
862 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
863 policies.
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866 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
867 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
868 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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870 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
871 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
872 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
873 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
874 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
875
da82c92f 876 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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879 bool
880 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
881 default y
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7c941438 883menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 884 bool "CPU controller"
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886 help
887 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
888 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
889 tasks.
890
891if CGROUP_SCHED
892config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
893 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
894 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
895 default CGROUP_SCHED
896
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898 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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900 default n
901 help
902 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
903 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
904 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
905 restriction.
d6a3b247 906 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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909 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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911 default n
912 help
913 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 914 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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916 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 917 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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919endif #CGROUP_SCHED
920
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922 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
923 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
924 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
925 default n
926 help
927 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
928 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
929
930 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
931 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
932 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
933 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
934 frequency a task will always use.
935
936 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
937 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
938 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
939 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
940
941 If in doubt, say N.
942
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944 bool "PIDs controller"
945 help
946 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
947 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
948 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
949 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
950 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
951 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 952 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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954 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 955 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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957 attach to a cgroup.
958
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960 bool "RDMA controller"
961 help
962 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
963 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
964 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
965 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
966 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
967 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
968
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970 bool "Freezer controller"
971 help
972 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
973 cgroup.
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976 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
977
978 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
979
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981 bool "HugeTLB controller"
982 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
983 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 984 default n
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986 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
987 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
988 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
989 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
990 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
991 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
992 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
993 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
994 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 995
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997 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 998 depends on SMP
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1000 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1001 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1002 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1003 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1004
6bf024e6 1005 Say N if unsure.
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1007config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1008 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1009 depends on CPUSETS
1010 default y
afc24d49 1011
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1013 bool "Device controller"
1014 help
1015 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1016 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1017
1018config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1019 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1020 help
1021 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1022 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1023
1024config CGROUP_PERF
1025 bool "Perf controller"
1026 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1027 help
1028 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1029 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1030 designated cpu.
1031
1032 Say N if unsure.
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1035 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1037 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1039 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1040 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1041
1042 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1043 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1044 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1045 inet sockets.
1046
6bf024e6 1047config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1048 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1049 default n
23b0be48 1050 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1052 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1054 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1055 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1056
6bf024e6 1057 Say N.
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1060 bool
1061 default n
1062
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8dd2a82c 1065menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1066 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1067 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1068 default !EXPERT
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1070 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1071 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1072 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1073 different namespaces.
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1078 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1079 default y
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1081 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1082 uname() system call
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1085 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1086 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1087 default y
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1089 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1090 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1091
aee16ce7 1092config USER_NS
19c92399 1093 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1094 default n
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1096 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1097 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1099 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1101 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1102 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1105
74bd59bb 1106config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1107 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1108 default y
74bd59bb 1109 help
12d2b8f9 1110 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1111 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1113
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1115 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1116 depends on NET
17a6d441 1117 default y
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1119 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1120 of the network stack.
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1123
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1125 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1126 select PROC_CHILDREN
1127 default n
1128 help
1129 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1130 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1131 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1132 entries.
1133
1134 If unsure, say N here.
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1137 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1139 select CGROUP_SCHED
1140 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1141 help
1142 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1143 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1144 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1145 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1146 upon task session.
1147
7af37bec 1148config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1149 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1151 default n
1152 help
1153 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1154 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1155 /sys/block/.
1156
1157 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1158 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1159
1160 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1161 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1162 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1163
1164 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1165 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1166 option enabled.
1167
1168 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1169 need to say Y here.
1170
1171config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1172 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1174 depends on SYSFS
1175 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1176 help
1177 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1178
1179 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1180 option.
1181
1182 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1183 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1184 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1185
1186config RELAY
1187 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1188 select IRQ_WORK
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1190 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1191 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1192 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1193 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1194 user space.
1195
1196 If unsure, say N.
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1199 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1201 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1202 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1203 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1204 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1205 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1207 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1208 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1209 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1210
1211 If unsure say Y.
1212
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1220 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1221 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1223config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1224 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1226 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1227 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1228 helpful compile-time warnings.
1229
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1231 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1232 depends on ARC
b303c6df 1233 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1234 help
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1235 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1236 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1237
c45b4f1f 1238config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1239 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
b303c6df 1240 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1241 help
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1242 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1243 in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1244
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1245endchoice
1246
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1247config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1248 bool
1249 help
1250 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1251 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1252 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1253 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1254 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1255 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1256
1257config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1258 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1259 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1260 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1261 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1262 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1263 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1264 help
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1265 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1266 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1267 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1268
1269 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1270 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1271 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1272 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1273 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1274 own risk.
1275
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1276config SYSCTL
1277 bool
1278
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1279config HAVE_UID16
1280 bool
1281
1282config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1283 bool
1284 help
1285 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1286
1287config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1288 bool
1289 help
1290 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1291 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1292 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1293
1294config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1295 bool
1296 help
1297 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1298 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1299 the unaligned access emulation.
1300 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1301
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1302config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1303 bool
1304
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1305# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1306config BPF
1307 bool
1308
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1309menuconfig EXPERT
1310 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1311 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1312 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1313 help
1314 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
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1315 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1316 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1317 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1da177e4 1318
ae81f9e3 1319config UID16
6a108a14 1320 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1321 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1322 default y
1323 help
1324 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1325
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1326config MULTIUSER
1327 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1328 default y
1329 help
1330 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1331 capabilities.
1332
1333 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1334 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1335 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1336 setgid, and capset.
1337
1338 If unsure, say Y here.
1339
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1340config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1341 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1342 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1343 ---help---
1344 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1345 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1346 architectures.
1347
1348 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1349
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1350config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1351 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1352 default y
1353 ---help---
1354 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1355 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1356 compatibility with some systems.
1357
1358 If unsure say Y here.
1359
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1360config FHANDLE
1361 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1362 select EXPORTFS
1363 default y
1364 help
1365 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1366 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1367 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1368 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1369 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1370 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1371 syscalls.
1372
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1373config POSIX_TIMERS
1374 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1375 default y
1376 help
1377 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1378 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1379 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1380
1381 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1382 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1383 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1384 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1385 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1386 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1387
1388 If unsure say y.
1389
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1390config PRINTK
1391 default y
6a108a14 1392 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1393 select IRQ_WORK
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1394 help
1395 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1396 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1397 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1398 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1399 strongly discouraged.
1400
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1401config PRINTK_NMI
1402 def_bool y
1403 depends on PRINTK
1404 depends on HAVE_NMI
1405
c8538a7a 1406config BUG
6a108a14 1407 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1408 default y
1409 help
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1410 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1411 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1412 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1413 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1414 Just say Y.
c8538a7a 1415
708e9a79 1416config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1417 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1418 default y
6a108a14 1419 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1420 help
1421 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1422
8761f1ab 1423
e5e1d3cb 1424config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1425 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1426 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1427 select I8253_LOCK
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1428 default y
1429 help
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1430 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1431 support, saving some memory.
e5e1d3cb 1432
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1433config BASE_FULL
1434 default y
6a108a14 1435 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1436 help
1437 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1438 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1439 but may reduce performance.
1440
1441config FUTEX
6a108a14 1442 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1443 default y
bc2eecd7 1444 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1445 help
1446 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1447 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1448 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1449
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1450config FUTEX_PI
1451 bool
1452 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1453 default y
1454
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1455config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1456 bool
62b4d204 1457 depends on FUTEX
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1458 help
1459 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1460 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1461 checks.
1462
1da177e4 1463config EPOLL
6a108a14 1464 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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1465 default y
1466 help
1467 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1468 support for epoll family of system calls.
1469
fba2afaa 1470config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1471 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1472 default y
1473 help
1474 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1475 on a file descriptor.
1476
1477 If unsure, say Y.
1478
b215e283 1479config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1480 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1481 default y
1482 help
1483 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1484 events on a file descriptor.
1485
1486 If unsure, say Y.
1487
e1ad7468 1488config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1489 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1490 default y
1491 help
1492 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1493 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1494
1495 If unsure, say Y.
1496
1da177e4 1497config SHMEM
6a108a14 1498 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1499 default y
1500 depends on MMU
1501 help
1502 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1503 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1504 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1505 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1506 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1507
ebf3f09c 1508config AIO
6a108a14 1509 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1510 default y
1511 help
1512 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1513 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1514 this option saves about 7k.
1515
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1516config IO_URING
1517 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1518 select ANON_INODES
561fb04a 1519 select IO_WQ
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1520 default y
1521 help
1522 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1523 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1524 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1525
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1526config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1527 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1528 default y
1529 help
1530 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1531 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1532 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1533 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1534 space.
1535
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1536config MEMBARRIER
1537 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1538 default y
1539 help
1540 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1541 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1542 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1543 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1544 compiler barrier.
1545
1546 If unsure, say Y.
1547
d1b069f5 1548config KALLSYMS
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1549 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1550 default y
1551 help
1552 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1553 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1554 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
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1555
1556config KALLSYMS_ALL
1557 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1559 help
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1560 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1561 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1562 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1563 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1564 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
d1b069f5 1565
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1566 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1567 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1568 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1569 something like this).
d1b069f5 1570
e8cf4e9c 1571 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1572
1573config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1574 bool
1575 depends on KALLSYMS
1576 default X86_64 && SMP
1577
1578config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1579 bool
1580 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1581 default !IA64
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1582 help
1583 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1584 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1585 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1586 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1587 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1588 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1589 address encountered in the image.
1590
1591 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1592 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1593 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1594 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1595
1596# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1597
1598# syscall, maps, verifier
1599config BPF_SYSCALL
1600 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1601 select BPF
bae77c5e 1602 select IRQ_WORK
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1603 default n
1604 help
1605 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1606 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1607
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1608config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1609 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1610 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1611 help
1612 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1613 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1614
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1615config USERFAULTFD
1616 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1617 depends on MMU
1618 help
1619 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1620 handle page faults in userland.
1621
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1622config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1623 bool
1624
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1625config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1626 bool
1627
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1628config RSEQ
1629 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1630 default y
1631 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1632 select MEMBARRIER
1633 help
1634 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1635 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1636 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1637 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1638 per-CPU data.
1639
1640 If unsure, say Y.
1641
1642config DEBUG_RSEQ
1643 default n
1644 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1645 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1646 help
1647 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1648
1649 If unsure, say N.
1650
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1651config EMBEDDED
1652 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1653 option allnoconfig_y
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1654 select EXPERT
1655 help
1656 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1657 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1658 for configuration.
1659
cdd6c482 1660config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1661 bool
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1662 help
1663 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1664
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1665config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1666 bool
1667 help
1668 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1669
ad90a3de 1670config PC104
424529fb 1671 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1672 help
1673 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1674 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1675 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1676
57c0c15b 1677menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1678
cdd6c482 1679config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1680 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1681 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1682 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1683 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1684 select SRCU
0793a61d 1685 help
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1686 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1687 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1688
dd77038d 1689 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1690 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1691
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1692 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1693 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1694 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1695 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1696 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1697 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1698 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1699
57c0c15b 1700 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1701 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1702 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1703 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1704 capabilities on top of those.
1705
1706 Say Y if unsure.
1707
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1708config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1709 default n
1710 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1711 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1712 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1713 help
e8cf4e9c 1714 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
906010b2 1715
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1716 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1717 that don't require it.
906010b2 1718
e8cf4e9c 1719 Say N if unsure.
906010b2 1720
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1721endmenu
1722
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1723config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1724 default y
6a108a14 1725 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1726 help
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1727 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1728 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1729 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1730 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1731
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1732config SLUB_DEBUG
1733 default y
6a108a14 1734 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1735 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1736 help
1737 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1738 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1739 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1740 no support for cache validation etc.
1741
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1742config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1743 default n
1744 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1745 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1746 help
1747 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1748 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1749 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1750 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1751 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1752 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1753 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1754 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1755
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1756config COMPAT_BRK
1757 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1758 default y
1759 help
1760 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1761 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1762 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1763 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1764 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1765
1766 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1767
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1768choice
1769 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1770 default SLUB
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1771 help
1772 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1773
1774config SLAB
1775 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1776 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1777 help
1778 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1779 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1780 per cpu and per node queues.
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1781
1782config SLUB
81819f0f 1783 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1784 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1785 help
1786 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1787 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1788 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1789 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1790 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1791 a slab allocator.
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1792
1793config SLOB
6a108a14 1794 depends on EXPERT
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1795 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1796 help
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1797 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1798 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1799 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1800
1801endchoice
1802
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1803config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1804 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1805 default y
1806 help
1807 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1808 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1809 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1810 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1811 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1812 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1813 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1814 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1815 command line.
1816
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1817config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1818 default n
210e7a43 1819 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1820 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1821 help
210e7a43 1822 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1823 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1824 allocator against heap overflows.
1825
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1826config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1827 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1828 depends on SLUB
1829 help
1830 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1831 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1832 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1833 freelist exploit methods.
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1835config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1836 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1837 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1838 help
1839 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1840 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1841 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1842 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1843 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1844 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1845 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1846 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1847 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1848 benefits on x86.
1849
1850 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1851 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1852 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1853 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1854 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1855 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1856
1857 Say Y if unsure.
1858
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1859config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1860 default y
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1862 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1863 help
92bae787 1864 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1865 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1866 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1867 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1868 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1869
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1870config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1871 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1872 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1873 default n
1874 help
1875 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1876 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1877 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1878 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1879 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1880 then the flag will be ignored.
1881
1882 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1883 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1884
1885 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1886 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1887 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1888 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1889
1890 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1891
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1892config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1893 def_bool n
1894 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1895 select KEYS
1896 select CRYPTO
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1898 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1899 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1900 select ASN1
1901 select OID_REGISTRY
1902 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1903 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1904 help
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1905 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1906 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1907 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1908 verification.
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125e5645 1910config PROFILING
b309a294 1911 bool "Profiling support"
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1912 help
1913 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1914 by profilers such as OProfile.
1915
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1917# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1918# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1919#
97e1c18e 1920config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1921 bool
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1924
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1926
ae81f9e3 1927config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1928 bool
ae81f9e3 1929
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1930config BASE_SMALL
1931 int
1932 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1933 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1934
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1935config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1936 def_bool n
1937 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1938
66da5733 1939menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1940 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1941 option modules
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1942 help
1943 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1944 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1945 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1946 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1947 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1948 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1949 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1950 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1951 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1952
1953 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1954 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1955 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1956 this).
1957
1958 If unsure, say Y.
1959
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1961
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1962config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1963 bool "Forced module loading"
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1964 default n
1965 help
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1966 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1967 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1968 is usually a really bad idea.
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1970config MODULE_UNLOAD
1971 bool "Module unloading"
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1972 help
1973 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1974 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1975 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1976 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1978config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1979 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1980 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1981 help
1982 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1983 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1984 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1985 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1986 If unsure, say N.
1987
1da177e4 1988config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1989 bool "Module versioning support"
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1990 help
1991 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1992 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1993 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1994 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1995 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1996 unsure, say N.
1997
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1998config ASM_MODVERSIONS
1999 bool
2000 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2001 help
2002 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2003 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2004 supports it.
2005
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2007 bool
2008 depends on MODVERSIONS
2009
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2010config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2011 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2012 help
2013 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2014 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2015 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2016 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2017 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2018 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2019 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2020
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2022 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2023 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2024 help
2025 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2026 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2027 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2029 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2030 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2031 library.
2032
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2033 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2034 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2035 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2036 of the lockdown policy.
2037
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2038 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2039 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2040 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2041 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2042
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2044 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2045 depends on MODULE_SIG
2046 help
2047 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2048 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2051 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2052 default y
2053 depends on MODULE_SIG
2054 help
2055 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2056 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2057
2058comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2059 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2060
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2061choice
2062 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2063 depends on MODULE_SIG
2064 help
2065 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2066 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2067 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2068 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2069 the signature on that module.
2070
2071config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2072 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2073 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2074
2075config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2076 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2077 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2078
2079config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2080 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2081 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2082
2083config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2084 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2085 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2086
2087config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2088 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2089 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2090
2091endchoice
2092
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2094 string
2095 depends on MODULE_SIG
2096 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2097 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2098 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2099 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2100 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2101
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2102config MODULE_COMPRESS
2103 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2104 help
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2106 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2107 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2109 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
beb50df3 2110
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2111 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2112 compressed upon installation.
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2114 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2115 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2117 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2118
2119 If in doubt, say N.
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2120
2121choice
2122 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2123 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2124 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2125 help
2126 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2127 'make modules_install'.
2128
2129 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2130
2131config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2132 bool "GZIP"
2133
2134config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2135 bool "XZ"
2136
2137endchoice
2138
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2139config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2140 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2141 help
2142 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2143 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2144 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2145 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2146 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2147 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2148 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2149
2150 If unsure, say N.
2151
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2152config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2153 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2154 default y if X86
2155 help
2156 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2157 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2158 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2159 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2160 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2161 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2162 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2163 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2164 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2165 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2166 your module is.
2167
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2168config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2169 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2170 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2171 help
2172 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2173 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2174 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2175 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2176
2177 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2178 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2179 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2180 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2181
f1cb637e 2182 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2185
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2186config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2187 def_bool y
2188 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2189
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2190config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2191 bool
2192 help
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2193 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2194 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2195 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2196 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2197 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2201config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2202 bool
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2204config PADATA
2205 depends on SMP
2206 bool
2207
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2208config ASN1
2209 tristate
2210 help
2211 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2212 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2213 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2214 functions to call on what tags.
2215
6beb0009 2216source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2218config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2219 bool
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2221# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2222# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2223# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2224# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2225# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2226# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2227# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2228config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2229 def_bool n