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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2config DEFCONFIG_LIST
3 string
b2670eac 4 depends on !UML
face4374 5 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 7 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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9 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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12config CC_IS_GCC
13 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14
15config GCC_VERSION
16 int
fa7295ab 17 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
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18 default 0
19
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20config CC_IS_CLANG
21 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22
23config CLANG_VERSION
24 int
25 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26
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27config CC_CAN_LINK
28 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
29
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30config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32
5cf896fb 33config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 34 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
5cf896fb 35
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36config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
37 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
38
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39config CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
40 def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
41 help
42 GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
43
44config CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
45 bool
46 depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
47 default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
48 help
49 GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
50 Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
51
52 If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
53 to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
54
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55config CONSTRUCTORS
56 bool
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58config IRQ_WORK
59 bool
e360adbe 60
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61config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
62 bool
63
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64config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
65 bool
66 help
67 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
68 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
69 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
70
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71 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
72 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
73
ff0cfc66 74menu "General setup"
1da177e4 75
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76config BROKEN
77 bool
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78
79config BROKEN_ON_SMP
80 bool
81 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
82 default y
83
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84config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
85 int
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86 default 32 if !UML
87 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 88 help
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89 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
90 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 91
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92config COMPILE_TEST
93 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 94 depends on !UML
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95 default n
96 help
97 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
98 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
99 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
100 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
101 drivers to compile-test them.
102
103 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
104 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
105 drivers to be distributed.
106
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107config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
108 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
fcbb8461 109 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
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110 help
111 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
112 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
113
114 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
115 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
116
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117config LOCALVERSION
118 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
119 help
120 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
121 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
122 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
123 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
124 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
125 be a maximum of 64 characters.
126
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127config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
128 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
129 default y
ac3339ba 130 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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131 help
132 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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133 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
134 top of tree revision.
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135
136 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 137 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 138 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 139 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 140
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141 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
142 by running the command:
143
144 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
145
146 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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9afb719e 148config BUILD_SALT
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149 string "Build ID Salt"
150 default ""
151 help
152 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
153 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
154 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
155 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
9afb719e 156
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157config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
158 bool
159
160config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
161 bool
162
163config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
164 bool
165
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166config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
167 bool
168
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169config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
170 bool
171
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172config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
173 bool
174
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175config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
176 bool
177
30d65dbf 178choice
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179 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
180 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 182 help
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183 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
184 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
185 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
186 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
187 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
188
189 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
190 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
191 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
192 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
193
194 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
195 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
196 size matters less.
197
198 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
199
200config KERNEL_GZIP
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201 bool "Gzip"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
203 help
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204 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
205 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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206
207config KERNEL_BZIP2
208 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 209 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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210 help
211 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 212 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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213 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
214 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
215 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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216
217config KERNEL_LZMA
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218 bool "LZMA"
219 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
220 help
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221 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
222 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
223 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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225config KERNEL_XZ
226 bool "XZ"
227 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
228 help
229 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
230 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
231 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
232 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
233 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
234 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
235
236 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
237 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
238 and LZO. Compression is slow.
239
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240config KERNEL_LZO
241 bool "LZO"
242 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
243 help
0a4dd35c 244 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 245 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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246 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
247
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248config KERNEL_LZ4
249 bool "LZ4"
250 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
251 help
252 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
253 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
254 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
255
256 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
257 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
258 faster than LZO.
259
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260config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
261 bool "None"
262 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
263 help
264 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
265 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
266 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
267 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
268 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
269
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270endchoice
271
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272config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
273 string "Default hostname"
274 default "(none)"
275 help
276 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
277 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
278 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
279 system more usable with less configuration.
280
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281#
282# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
283# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
284#
285config ARCH_NO_SWAP
286 bool
287
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288config SWAP
289 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 290 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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291 default y
292 help
293 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 294 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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295 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
296 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
297
298config SYSVIPC
299 bool "System V IPC"
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300 ---help---
301 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
302 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
303 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
304 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
305 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
306 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
307 you'll need to say Y here.
308
309 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
310 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
311 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
312
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313config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
314 bool
315 depends on SYSVIPC
316 depends on SYSCTL
317 default y
318
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319config POSIX_MQUEUE
320 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 321 depends on NET
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322 ---help---
323 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
324 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
325 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
326 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 327 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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328
329 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
330 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
331 operations on message queues.
332
333 If unsure, say Y.
334
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335config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
336 bool
337 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
338 depends on SYSCTL
339 default y
340
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341config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
342 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
343 depends on MMU
344 default y
345 help
346 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
347 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 348 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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349 See the man page for more details.
350
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351config USELIB
352 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 353 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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354 help
355 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
356 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
357 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
358 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
359 running glibc can safely disable this.
360
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361config AUDIT
362 bool "Auditing support"
363 depends on NET
364 help
365 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
366 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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367 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
368 on architectures which support it.
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370config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
371 bool
372
391dc69c 373config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 374 def_bool y
7a017721 375 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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376 select FSNOTIFY
377
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378source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
379source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 380source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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381
382menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
383
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384config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
385 bool
386
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387choice
388 prompt "Cputime accounting"
389 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 390 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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391
392# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
393config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
394 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 395 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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396 help
397 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
398 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
399 granularity.
400
401 If unsure, say Y.
402
abf917cd 403config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 404 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 405 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 406 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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407 help
408 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
409 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
410 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
411 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
412 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
413 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
414 systems.
415
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416config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
417 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 418 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 419 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
041a1574 420 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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421 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
422 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
423 help
424 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
425 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
426 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
427 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
428 overhead.
429
430 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
431 dynticks subsystem development.
432
433 If unsure, say N.
434
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436
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437config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
438 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 439 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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440 help
441 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
442 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
443 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
444 small performance impact.
445
446 If in doubt, say N here.
447
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448config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
449 def_bool y
450 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
451 depends on SMP
452
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453config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
454 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 455 depends on MULTIUSER
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456 help
457 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
458 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
459 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
460 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
461 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
462 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
463 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
464 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
465 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
466
467config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
468 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
469 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
470 default n
471 help
472 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
473 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 474 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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475 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
476 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 477 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 478
c757249a 479config TASKSTATS
19c92399 480 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 481 depends on NET
2813893f 482 depends on MULTIUSER
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483 default n
484 help
485 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
486 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
487 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
488 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
489 space on task exit.
490
491 Say N if unsure.
492
ca74e92b 493config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 494 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 495 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 496 select SCHED_INFO
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497 help
498 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
499 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
500 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
501 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
502
503 Say N if unsure.
504
18f705f4 505config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 506 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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507 depends on TASKSTATS
508 help
509 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
510 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
511
512 Say N if unsure.
513
514config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 515 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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516 depends on TASK_XACCT
517 help
518 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
519 task has caused.
520
521 Say N if unsure.
522
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523config PSI
524 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
525 help
526 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
527 and IO capacity are in the system.
528
529 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
530 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
531 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
532 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
533
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534 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
535 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
536 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
537
c3123552 538 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
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540 Say N if unsure.
541
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542config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
543 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
544 default n
545 depends on PSI
546 help
547 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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548 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
549 kernel commandline during boot.
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551 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
552 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
553 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
554 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
555 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
556
557 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
558 used for, say Y.
559
560 Say N if unsure.
561
391dc69c 562endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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564config CPU_ISOLATION
565 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 566 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 567 default y
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568 help
569 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
570 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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571 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
572 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
573
574 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 575
0af92d46 576source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
c903ff83 577
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578config BUILD_BIN2C
579 bool
580 default n
581
1da177e4 582config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 583 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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584 ---help---
585 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
586 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
587 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
588 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
589 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
590 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
591 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
592 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
593
594config IKCONFIG_PROC
595 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
596 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
597 ---help---
598 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
599 through /proc/config.gz.
600
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601config IKHEADERS
602 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
603 depends on SYSFS
604 help
605 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
606 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
607 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
608 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
43d8ce9d 609
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610config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
611 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 612 range 12 25
f17a32e9 613 default 17
361e9dfb 614 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 615 help
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616 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
617 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
618 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
619 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
620
f17a32e9 621 Examples:
23b2899f 622 17 => 128 KB
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625 14 => 16 KB
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627 12 => 4 KB
628
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630 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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632 range 0 21
633 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
634 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
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637 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
638 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
639 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
640 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
641 e.g. backtraces.
642
643 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
644 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
645 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
646 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
647 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
648 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
649
650 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
651 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
652
653 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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655 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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657 Examples shift values and their meaning:
658 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
659 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
660 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
661 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
662 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
663 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
664
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666 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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668 default 13
f92bac3b 669 depends on PRINTK
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671 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
672 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
673 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
674 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
675 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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679 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
680
681 Examples:
682 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
683 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
684 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
685 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
686 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
687 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
688
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690# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
691#
692config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
693 bool
694
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696 bool
697
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699
700config UCLAMP_TASK
701 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
702 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
703 help
704 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
705 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
706
707 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
708 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
709 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
710 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
711
712 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
713 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
714 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
715
716 If in doubt, say N.
717
718config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
719 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
720 range 5 20
721 default 5
722 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
723 help
724 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
725 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
726 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
727 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
728
729 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
730 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
731 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
732 effective value to 25%.
733 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
734 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
735 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
736 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
737 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
738 that bucket.
739
740 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
741 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
742 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
743 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
744 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
745 precision.
746
747 If in doubt, use the default value.
748
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750
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752# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
753# balancing logic:
754#
755config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
756 bool
757
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759# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
760# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
761# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
762# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
763# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
764# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
765config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
766 bool
767
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769 def_bool y
770 depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0)
771
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772#
773# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
774#
775config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
776 bool
777
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779# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
780#
781config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
782 bool
783
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785 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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787 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
788 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
789 help
790 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
791 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 792 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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794 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
795
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797 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
798 default y
799 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
800 help
801 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
802 machine.
803
23964d2d 804menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 805 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 806 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 807 help
23964d2d 808 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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810 controls or device isolation.
811 See
d6a3b247 812 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 813 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 814 and resource control)
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816 Say N if unsure.
817
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819
3e32cb2e 820config PAGE_COUNTER
e8cf4e9c 821 bool
3e32cb2e 822
c255a458 823config MEMCG
a0166ec4 824 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 825 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 826 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 827 help
a0166ec4 828 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 829
c255a458 830config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 831 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 832 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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835
c255a458 836config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 837 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 838 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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839 default y
840 help
841 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
842 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 843 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 844 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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845 parameter should have this option unselected.
846 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
847 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 848 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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850config MEMCG_KMEM
851 bool
852 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
853 default y
854
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855config BLK_CGROUP
856 bool "IO controller"
857 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 858 default n
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859 ---help---
860 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
861 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
862 policies.
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864 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
865 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
866 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
867 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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870 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
871 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
872 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
873 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
874
da82c92f 875 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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877config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
878 bool
879 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
880 default y
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7c941438 882menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 883 bool "CPU controller"
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885 help
886 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
887 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
888 tasks.
889
890if CGROUP_SCHED
891config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
892 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
893 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
894 default CGROUP_SCHED
895
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897 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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899 default n
900 help
901 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
902 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
903 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
904 restriction.
d6a3b247 905 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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908 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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910 default n
911 help
912 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 913 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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915 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 916 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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918endif #CGROUP_SCHED
919
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921 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
922 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
923 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
924 default n
925 help
926 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
927 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
928
929 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
930 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
931 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
932 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
933 frequency a task will always use.
934
935 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
936 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
937 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
938 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
939
940 If in doubt, say N.
941
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943 bool "PIDs controller"
944 help
945 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
946 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
947 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
948 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
949 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
950 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 951 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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953 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 954 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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956 attach to a cgroup.
957
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959 bool "RDMA controller"
960 help
961 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
962 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
963 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
964 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
965 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
966 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
967
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969 bool "Freezer controller"
970 help
971 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
972 cgroup.
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975 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
976
977 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
978
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980 bool "HugeTLB controller"
981 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
982 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 983 default n
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985 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
986 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
987 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
988 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
989 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
990 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
991 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
992 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
993 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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996 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 997 depends on SMP
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999 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1000 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1001 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1002 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
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6bf024e6 1004 Say N if unsure.
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1006config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1007 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1008 depends on CPUSETS
1009 default y
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1012 bool "Device controller"
1013 help
1014 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1015 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1016
1017config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1018 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1019 help
1020 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1021 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1022
1023config CGROUP_PERF
1024 bool "Perf controller"
1025 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1026 help
1027 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1028 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1029 designated cpu.
1030
1031 Say N if unsure.
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1034 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1036 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1038 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1039 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1040
1041 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1042 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1043 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1044 inet sockets.
1045
6bf024e6 1046config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1047 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1048 default n
23b0be48 1049 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1051 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1053 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1054 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1055
6bf024e6 1056 Say N.
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1059 bool
1060 default n
1061
23964d2d 1062endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1064menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1065 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1066 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1067 default !EXPERT
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1069 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1070 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1071 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1072 different namespaces.
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1077 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1078 default y
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1080 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1081 uname() system call
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1084 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1085 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1086 default y
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1088 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1089 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1090
aee16ce7 1091config USER_NS
19c92399 1092 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1093 default n
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1095 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1096 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1098 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1100 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1101 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1104
74bd59bb 1105config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1106 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1107 default y
74bd59bb 1108 help
12d2b8f9 1109 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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1112
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1114 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1115 depends on NET
17a6d441 1116 default y
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1118 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1119 of the network stack.
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1124 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1125 select PROC_CHILDREN
1126 default n
1127 help
1128 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1129 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1130 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1131 entries.
1132
1133 If unsure, say N here.
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1136 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1138 select CGROUP_SCHED
1139 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1140 help
1141 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1142 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1143 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1144 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1145 upon task session.
1146
7af37bec 1147config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1148 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1150 default n
1151 help
1152 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1153 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1154 /sys/block/.
1155
1156 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1157 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1158
1159 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1160 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1161 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1162
1163 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1164 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1165 option enabled.
1166
1167 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1168 need to say Y here.
1169
1170config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1171 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1173 depends on SYSFS
1174 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1175 help
1176 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1177
1178 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1179 option.
1180
1181 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1182 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1183 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1184
1185config RELAY
1186 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1187 select IRQ_WORK
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1189 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1190 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1191 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1192 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1193 user space.
1194
1195 If unsure, say N.
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1198 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1200 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1201 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1202 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1203 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1204 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1206 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1207 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1208 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1209
1210 If unsure say Y.
1211
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1219 bool "Boot config support"
7684b858 1220 depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
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1222 default y
1223 help
1224 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
1225 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
1226 The boot config file is usually attached at the end of initramfs.
1227
1228 If unsure, say Y.
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1231 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1232 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1234config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1235 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1237 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1238 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1239 helpful compile-time warnings.
1240
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1241config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1242 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1243 depends on ARC
b303c6df 1244 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1245 help
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1246 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1247 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1248
c45b4f1f 1249config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1250 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
b303c6df 1251 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1252 help
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1253 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1254 in a smaller kernel.
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1256endchoice
1257
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1258config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1259 bool
1260 help
1261 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1262 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1263 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1264 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1265 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1266 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1267
1268config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1269 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1270 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1271 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1272 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1273 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1274 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1275 help
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1276 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1277 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1278 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1279
1280 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1281 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1282 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1283 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1284 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1285 own risk.
1286
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1287config SYSCTL
1288 bool
1289
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1290config HAVE_UID16
1291 bool
1292
1293config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1294 bool
1295 help
1296 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1297
1298config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1299 bool
1300 help
1301 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1302 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1303 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1304
1305config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1306 bool
1307 help
1308 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1309 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1310 the unaligned access emulation.
1311 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1312
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1313config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1314 bool
1315
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1316# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1317config BPF
1318 bool
1319
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1320menuconfig EXPERT
1321 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1322 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1323 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1324 help
1325 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
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1326 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1327 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1328 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1da177e4 1329
ae81f9e3 1330config UID16
6a108a14 1331 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1332 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1333 default y
1334 help
1335 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1336
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1337config MULTIUSER
1338 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1339 default y
1340 help
1341 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1342 capabilities.
1343
1344 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1345 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1346 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1347 setgid, and capset.
1348
1349 If unsure, say Y here.
1350
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1351config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1352 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1353 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1354 ---help---
1355 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1356 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1357 architectures.
1358
1359 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1360
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1361config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1362 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1363 default y
1364 ---help---
1365 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1366 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1367 compatibility with some systems.
1368
1369 If unsure say Y here.
1370
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1371config FHANDLE
1372 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1373 select EXPORTFS
1374 default y
1375 help
1376 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1377 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1378 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1379 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1380 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1381 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1382 syscalls.
1383
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1384config POSIX_TIMERS
1385 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1386 default y
1387 help
1388 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1389 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1390 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1391
1392 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1393 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1394 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1395 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1396 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1397 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1398
1399 If unsure say y.
1400
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1401config PRINTK
1402 default y
6a108a14 1403 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1404 select IRQ_WORK
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1405 help
1406 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1407 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1408 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1409 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1410 strongly discouraged.
1411
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1412config PRINTK_NMI
1413 def_bool y
1414 depends on PRINTK
1415 depends on HAVE_NMI
1416
c8538a7a 1417config BUG
6a108a14 1418 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1419 default y
1420 help
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1421 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1422 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1423 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1424 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1425 Just say Y.
c8538a7a 1426
708e9a79 1427config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1428 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1429 default y
6a108a14 1430 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1431 help
1432 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1433
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e5e1d3cb 1435config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1436 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1437 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1438 select I8253_LOCK
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1439 default y
1440 help
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1441 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1442 support, saving some memory.
e5e1d3cb 1443
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1444config BASE_FULL
1445 default y
6a108a14 1446 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1447 help
1448 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1449 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1450 but may reduce performance.
1451
1452config FUTEX
6a108a14 1453 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1454 default y
bc2eecd7 1455 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1456 help
1457 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1458 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1459 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1460
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1461config FUTEX_PI
1462 bool
1463 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1464 default y
1465
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1466config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1467 bool
62b4d204 1468 depends on FUTEX
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1469 help
1470 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1471 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1472 checks.
1473
1da177e4 1474config EPOLL
6a108a14 1475 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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1476 default y
1477 help
1478 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1479 support for epoll family of system calls.
1480
fba2afaa 1481config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1482 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1483 default y
1484 help
1485 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1486 on a file descriptor.
1487
1488 If unsure, say Y.
1489
b215e283 1490config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1491 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1492 default y
1493 help
1494 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1495 events on a file descriptor.
1496
1497 If unsure, say Y.
1498
e1ad7468 1499config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1500 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1501 default y
1502 help
1503 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1504 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1505
1506 If unsure, say Y.
1507
1da177e4 1508config SHMEM
6a108a14 1509 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1510 default y
1511 depends on MMU
1512 help
1513 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1514 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1515 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1516 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1517 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1518
ebf3f09c 1519config AIO
6a108a14 1520 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1521 default y
1522 help
1523 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1524 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1525 this option saves about 7k.
1526
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1527config IO_URING
1528 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1529 select ANON_INODES
561fb04a 1530 select IO_WQ
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1531 default y
1532 help
1533 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1534 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1535 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1536
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1537config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1538 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1539 default y
1540 help
1541 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1542 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1543 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1544 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1545 space.
1546
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1547config MEMBARRIER
1548 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1549 default y
1550 help
1551 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1552 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1553 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1554 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1555 compiler barrier.
1556
1557 If unsure, say Y.
1558
d1b069f5 1559config KALLSYMS
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1560 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1561 default y
1562 help
1563 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1564 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1565 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
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1566
1567config KALLSYMS_ALL
1568 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1569 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1570 help
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1571 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1572 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1573 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1574 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1575 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
d1b069f5 1576
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1577 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1578 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1579 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1580 something like this).
d1b069f5 1581
e8cf4e9c 1582 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1583
1584config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1585 bool
1586 depends on KALLSYMS
1587 default X86_64 && SMP
1588
1589config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1590 bool
1591 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1592 default !IA64
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1593 help
1594 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1595 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1596 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1597 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1598 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1599 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1600 address encountered in the image.
1601
1602 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1603 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1604 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1605 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1606
1607# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1608
1609# syscall, maps, verifier
1610config BPF_SYSCALL
1611 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1612 select BPF
bae77c5e 1613 select IRQ_WORK
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1614 default n
1615 help
1616 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1617 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1618
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1619config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1620 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1621 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1622 help
1623 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1624 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1625
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1626config USERFAULTFD
1627 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1628 depends on MMU
1629 help
1630 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1631 handle page faults in userland.
1632
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1633config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1634 bool
1635
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1636config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1637 bool
1638
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1639config RSEQ
1640 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1641 default y
1642 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1643 select MEMBARRIER
1644 help
1645 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1646 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1647 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1648 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1649 per-CPU data.
1650
1651 If unsure, say Y.
1652
1653config DEBUG_RSEQ
1654 default n
1655 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1656 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1657 help
1658 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1659
1660 If unsure, say N.
1661
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1662config EMBEDDED
1663 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1664 option allnoconfig_y
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1665 select EXPERT
1666 help
1667 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1668 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1669 for configuration.
1670
cdd6c482 1671config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1672 bool
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1673 help
1674 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1675
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1676config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1677 bool
1678 help
1679 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1680
ad90a3de 1681config PC104
424529fb 1682 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1683 help
1684 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1685 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1686 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1687
57c0c15b 1688menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1689
cdd6c482 1690config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1691 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1692 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1693 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1694 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1695 select SRCU
0793a61d 1696 help
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1697 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1698 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1699
dd77038d 1700 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1701 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1702
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1703 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1704 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1705 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1706 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1707 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1708 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1709 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1710
57c0c15b 1711 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1712 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1713 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1714 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1715 capabilities on top of those.
1716
1717 Say Y if unsure.
1718
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1719config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1720 default n
1721 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1722 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1723 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1724 help
e8cf4e9c 1725 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
906010b2 1726
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1727 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1728 that don't require it.
906010b2 1729
e8cf4e9c 1730 Say N if unsure.
906010b2 1731
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1732endmenu
1733
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1734config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1735 default y
6a108a14 1736 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1737 help
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1738 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1739 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1740 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1741 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1742
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1743config SLUB_DEBUG
1744 default y
6a108a14 1745 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1746 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1747 help
1748 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1749 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1750 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1751 no support for cache validation etc.
1752
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1753config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1754 default n
1755 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1756 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1757 help
1758 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1759 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1760 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1761 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1762 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1763 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1764 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1765 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1766
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1767config COMPAT_BRK
1768 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1769 default y
1770 help
1771 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1772 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1773 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1774 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1775 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1776
1777 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1778
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1779choice
1780 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1781 default SLUB
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1782 help
1783 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1784
1785config SLAB
1786 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1787 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1788 help
1789 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1790 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1791 per cpu and per node queues.
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1792
1793config SLUB
81819f0f 1794 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1795 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1796 help
1797 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1798 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1799 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1800 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1801 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1802 a slab allocator.
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1803
1804config SLOB
6a108a14 1805 depends on EXPERT
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1806 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1807 help
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1808 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1809 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1810 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1811
1812endchoice
1813
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1814config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1815 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1816 default y
1817 help
1818 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1819 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1820 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1821 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1822 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1823 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1824 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1825 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1826 command line.
1827
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1828config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1829 default n
210e7a43 1830 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1831 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1832 help
210e7a43 1833 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1834 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1835 allocator against heap overflows.
1836
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1837config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1838 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1839 depends on SLUB
1840 help
1841 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1842 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1843 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1844 freelist exploit methods.
1845
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1847 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1848 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1849 help
1850 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1851 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1852 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1853 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1854 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1855 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1856 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1857 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1858 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1859 benefits on x86.
1860
1861 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1862 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1863 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1864 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1865 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1866 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1867
1868 Say Y if unsure.
1869
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1870config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1871 default y
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1873 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1874 help
92bae787 1875 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1876 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1877 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1878 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1879 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1880
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1881config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1882 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1883 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1884 default n
1885 help
1886 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1887 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1888 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1889 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1890 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1891 then the flag will be ignored.
1892
1893 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1894 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1895
1896 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1897 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1898 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1899 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1900
1901 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1902
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1903config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1904 def_bool n
1905 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1906 select KEYS
1907 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1908 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1909 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1910 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1911 select ASN1
1912 select OID_REGISTRY
1913 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1914 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1915 help
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1916 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1917 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1918 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1919 verification.
82c04ff8 1920
125e5645 1921config PROFILING
b309a294 1922 bool "Profiling support"
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1923 help
1924 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1925 by profilers such as OProfile.
1926
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1928# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1929# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1930#
97e1c18e 1931config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1932 bool
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1935
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1936source "arch/Kconfig"
1937
ae81f9e3 1938config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1939 bool
ae81f9e3 1940
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1941config BASE_SMALL
1942 int
1943 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1944 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1945
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1946config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1947 def_bool n
1948 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1949
66da5733 1950menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1951 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1952 option modules
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1953 help
1954 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1955 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1956 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1957 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1958 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1959 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1960 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1961 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1962 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1963
1964 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1965 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1966 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1967 this).
1968
1969 If unsure, say Y.
1970
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1972
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1973config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1974 bool "Forced module loading"
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1975 default n
1976 help
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1977 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1978 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1979 is usually a really bad idea.
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1981config MODULE_UNLOAD
1982 bool "Module unloading"
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1983 help
1984 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1985 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1986 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1987 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1989config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1990 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1991 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1992 help
1993 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1994 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1995 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1996 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1997 If unsure, say N.
1998
1da177e4 1999config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2000 bool "Module versioning support"
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2001 help
2002 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2003 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2004 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2005 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2006 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2007 unsure, say N.
2008
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2009config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2010 bool
2011 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2012 help
2013 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2014 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2015 supports it.
2016
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2018 bool
2019 depends on MODVERSIONS
2020
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2021config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2022 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2023 help
2024 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2025 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2026 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2027 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2028 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2029 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2030 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2031
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2033 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2034 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2035 help
2036 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2037 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2038 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2040 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2041 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2042 library.
2043
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2044 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2045 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2046 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2047 of the lockdown policy.
2048
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2049 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2050 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2051 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2052 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2053
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2054config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2055 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2056 depends on MODULE_SIG
2057 help
2058 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2059 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2061config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2062 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2063 default y
2064 depends on MODULE_SIG
2065 help
2066 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2067 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2068
2069comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2070 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2071
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2072choice
2073 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2074 depends on MODULE_SIG
2075 help
2076 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2077 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2078 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2079 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2080 the signature on that module.
2081
2082config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2083 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2084 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2085
2086config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2087 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2088 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2089
2090config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2091 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2092 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2093
2094config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2095 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2096 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2097
2098config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2099 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2100 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2101
2102endchoice
2103
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2104config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2105 string
2106 depends on MODULE_SIG
2107 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2108 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2109 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2110 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2111 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2112
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2113config MODULE_COMPRESS
2114 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2115 help
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2117 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2118 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2120 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2122 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2123 compressed upon installation.
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2125 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2126 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2128 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2129
2130 If in doubt, say N.
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2131
2132choice
2133 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2134 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2135 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2136 help
2137 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2138 'make modules_install'.
2139
2140 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2141
2142config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2143 bool "GZIP"
2144
2145config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2146 bool "XZ"
2147
2148endchoice
2149
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2150config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2151 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2152 help
2153 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2154 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2155 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2156 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2157 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2158 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2159 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2160
2161 If unsure, say N.
2162
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2163config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2164 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2165 default y if X86
2166 help
2167 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2168 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2169 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2170 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2171 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2172 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2173 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2174 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2175 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2176 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2177 your module is.
2178
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2179config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2180 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2181 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2182 help
2183 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2184 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2185 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2186 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2187
2188 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2189 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2190 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2191 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2192
f1cb637e 2193 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2196
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2197config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2198 def_bool y
2199 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2200
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2201config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2202 bool
2203 help
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2204 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2205 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2206 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2207 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2208 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2210source "block/Kconfig"
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2212config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2213 bool
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2215config PADATA
2216 depends on SMP
2217 bool
2218
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2219config ASN1
2220 tristate
2221 help
2222 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2223 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2224 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2225 functions to call on what tags.
2226
6beb0009 2227source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2228
2229config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2230 bool
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2232# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2233# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2234# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2235# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2236# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2237# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2238# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2239config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2240 def_bool n