pipe: Add general notification queue support
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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)"
2a86f661 9 default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
face4374 10
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11config CC_IS_GCC
12 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13
14config GCC_VERSION
15 int
fa7295ab 16 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
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17 default 0
18
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19config LD_VERSION
20 int
21 default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh)
22
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23config CC_IS_CLANG
24 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
25
26config CLANG_VERSION
27 int
28 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
29
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30config CC_CAN_LINK
31 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
32
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33config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
34 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
35
5cf896fb 36config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 37 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
5cf896fb 38
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39config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
40 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
41
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42config CONSTRUCTORS
43 bool
87c9366e 44 depends on !UML
b99b87f7 45
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46config IRQ_WORK
47 bool
e360adbe 48
10916706 49config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
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50 bool
51
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52config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
53 bool
54 help
55 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
56 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
57 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
58
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59 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
60 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
61
ff0cfc66 62menu "General setup"
1da177e4 63
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64config BROKEN
65 bool
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66
67config BROKEN_ON_SMP
68 bool
69 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
70 default y
71
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72config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
73 int
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74 default 32 if !UML
75 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 76 help
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77 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
78 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 79
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80config COMPILE_TEST
81 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 82 depends on !UML
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83 default n
84 help
85 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
86 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
87 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
88 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
89 drivers to compile-test them.
90
91 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
92 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
93 drivers to be distributed.
94
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95config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
96 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
fcbb8461 97 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
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98 help
99 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
100 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
101
102 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
103 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
104
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105config LOCALVERSION
106 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
107 help
108 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
109 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
110 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
111 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
112 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
113 be a maximum of 64 characters.
114
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115config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
116 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
117 default y
ac3339ba 118 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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119 help
120 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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121 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
122 top of tree revision.
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123
124 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 125 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 126 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 127 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 128
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129 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
130 by running the command:
131
132 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
133
134 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
aaebf433 135
9afb719e 136config BUILD_SALT
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137 string "Build ID Salt"
138 default ""
139 help
140 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
141 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
142 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
143 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
9afb719e 144
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145config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
146 bool
147
148config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
149 bool
150
151config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
152 bool
153
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154config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
155 bool
156
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157config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
158 bool
159
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160config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
161 bool
162
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163config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
164 bool
165
30d65dbf 166choice
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167 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
168 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 169 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 170 help
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171 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
172 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
173 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
174 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
175 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
176
177 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
178 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
179 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
180 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
181
182 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
183 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
184 size matters less.
185
186 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
187
188config KERNEL_GZIP
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189 bool "Gzip"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
191 help
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192 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
193 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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194
195config KERNEL_BZIP2
196 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 197 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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198 help
199 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 200 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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201 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
202 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
203 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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204
205config KERNEL_LZMA
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206 bool "LZMA"
207 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
208 help
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209 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
210 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
211 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
30d65dbf 212
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213config KERNEL_XZ
214 bool "XZ"
215 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
216 help
217 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
218 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
219 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
220 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
221 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
222 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
223
224 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
225 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
226 and LZO. Compression is slow.
227
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228config KERNEL_LZO
229 bool "LZO"
230 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
231 help
0a4dd35c 232 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 233 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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234 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
235
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236config KERNEL_LZ4
237 bool "LZ4"
238 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
239 help
240 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
241 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
242 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
243
244 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
245 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
246 faster than LZO.
247
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248config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
249 bool "None"
250 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
251 help
252 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
253 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
254 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
255 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
256 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
257
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258endchoice
259
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260config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
261 string "Default hostname"
262 default "(none)"
263 help
264 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
265 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
266 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
267 system more usable with less configuration.
268
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269#
270# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
271# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
272#
273config ARCH_NO_SWAP
274 bool
275
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276config SWAP
277 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 278 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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279 default y
280 help
281 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 282 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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283 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
284 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
285
286config SYSVIPC
287 bool "System V IPC"
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288 ---help---
289 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
290 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
291 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
292 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
293 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
294 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
295 you'll need to say Y here.
296
297 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
298 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
299 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
300
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301config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
302 bool
303 depends on SYSVIPC
304 depends on SYSCTL
305 default y
306
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307config POSIX_MQUEUE
308 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 309 depends on NET
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310 ---help---
311 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
312 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
313 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
314 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 315 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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316
317 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
318 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
319 operations on message queues.
320
321 If unsure, say Y.
322
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323config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
324 bool
325 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
326 depends on SYSCTL
327 default y
328
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329config WATCH_QUEUE
330 bool "General notification queue"
331 default n
332 help
333
334 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
335 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction
336 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
337 notifications.
338
339 See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
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.
391dc69c 369
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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 SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
454 bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure"
455 depends on SMP
456
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457config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
458 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 459 depends on MULTIUSER
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460 help
461 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
462 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
463 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
464 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
465 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
466 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
467 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
468 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
469 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
470
471config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
472 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
473 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
474 default n
475 help
476 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
477 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 478 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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479 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
480 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 481 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 482
c757249a 483config TASKSTATS
19c92399 484 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 485 depends on NET
2813893f 486 depends on MULTIUSER
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487 default n
488 help
489 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
490 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
491 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
492 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
493 space on task exit.
494
495 Say N if unsure.
496
ca74e92b 497config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 498 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 499 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 500 select SCHED_INFO
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501 help
502 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
503 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
504 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
505 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
506
507 Say N if unsure.
508
18f705f4 509config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 510 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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511 depends on TASKSTATS
512 help
513 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
514 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
515
516 Say N if unsure.
517
518config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 519 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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520 depends on TASK_XACCT
521 help
522 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
523 task has caused.
524
525 Say N if unsure.
526
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527config PSI
528 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
529 help
530 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
531 and IO capacity are in the system.
532
533 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
534 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
535 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
536 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
537
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538 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
539 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
540 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
541
c3123552 542 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
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543
544 Say N if unsure.
545
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546config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
547 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
548 default n
549 depends on PSI
550 help
551 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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552 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
553 kernel commandline during boot.
e0c27447 554
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555 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
556 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
557 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
558 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
559 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
560
561 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
562 used for, say Y.
563
564 Say N if unsure.
565
391dc69c 566endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 567
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568config CPU_ISOLATION
569 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 570 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 571 default y
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572 help
573 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
574 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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575 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
576 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
577
578 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 579
0af92d46 580source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
c903ff83 581
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582config BUILD_BIN2C
583 bool
584 default n
585
1da177e4 586config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 587 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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588 ---help---
589 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
590 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
591 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
592 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
593 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
594 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
595 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
596 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
597
598config IKCONFIG_PROC
599 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
600 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
601 ---help---
602 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
603 through /proc/config.gz.
604
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605config IKHEADERS
606 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
607 depends on SYSFS
608 help
609 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
610 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
611 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
612 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
43d8ce9d 613
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614config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
615 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 616 range 12 25
f17a32e9 617 default 17
361e9dfb 618 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 619 help
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620 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
621 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
622 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
623 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
624
f17a32e9 625 Examples:
23b2899f 626 17 => 128 KB
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629 14 => 16 KB
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631 12 => 4 KB
632
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634 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 635 depends on SMP
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637 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
638 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
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641 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
642 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
643 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
644 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
645 e.g. backtraces.
646
647 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
648 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
649 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
650 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
651 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
652 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
653
654 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
655 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
656
657 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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659 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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661 Examples shift values and their meaning:
662 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
663 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
664 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
665 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
666 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
667 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
668
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670 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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672 default 13
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675 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
676 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
677 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
678 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
679 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
427934b8 680
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683 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
684
685 Examples:
686 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
687 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
688 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
689 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
690 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
691 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
692
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694# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
695#
696config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
697 bool
698
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700 bool
701
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703
704config UCLAMP_TASK
705 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
706 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
707 help
708 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
709 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
710
711 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
712 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
713 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
714 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
715
716 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
717 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
718 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
719
720 If in doubt, say N.
721
722config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
723 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
724 range 5 20
725 default 5
726 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
727 help
728 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
729 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
730 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
731 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
732
733 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
734 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
735 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
736 effective value to 25%.
737 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
738 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
739 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
740 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
741 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
742 that bucket.
743
744 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
745 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
746 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
747 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
748 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
749 precision.
750
751 If in doubt, use the default value.
752
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754
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756# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
757# balancing logic:
758#
759config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
760 bool
761
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763# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
764# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
765# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
766# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
767# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
768# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
769config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
770 bool
771
c12d3362 772config CC_HAS_INT128
3a7c7331 773 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
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776# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
777#
778config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
779 bool
780
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782# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
783#
784config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
785 bool
786
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788 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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790 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
791 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
792 help
793 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
794 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 795 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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797 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
798
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800 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
801 default y
802 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
803 help
804 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
805 machine.
806
23964d2d 807menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 808 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 809 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 810 help
23964d2d 811 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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812 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
813 controls or device isolation.
814 See
d6a3b247 815 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 816 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 817 and resource control)
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819 Say N if unsure.
820
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822
3e32cb2e 823config PAGE_COUNTER
e8cf4e9c 824 bool
3e32cb2e 825
c255a458 826config MEMCG
a0166ec4 827 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 828 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 829 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 830 help
a0166ec4 831 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 832
c255a458 833config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 834 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 835 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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838
c255a458 839config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 840 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 841 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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842 default y
843 help
844 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
845 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 846 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 847 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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849 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
850 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 851 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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854 bool
855 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
856 default y
857
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858config BLK_CGROUP
859 bool "IO controller"
860 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 861 default n
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863 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
864 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
865 policies.
2bc64a20 866
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868 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
869 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
870 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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873 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
874 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7baf2199 875 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
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877
da82c92f 878 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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880config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
881 bool
882 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
883 default y
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7c941438 885menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 886 bool "CPU controller"
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888 help
889 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
890 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
891 tasks.
892
893if CGROUP_SCHED
894config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
895 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
896 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
897 default CGROUP_SCHED
898
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900 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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901 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
902 default n
903 help
904 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
905 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
906 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
907 restriction.
d6a3b247 908 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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911 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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913 default n
914 help
915 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 916 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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918 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 919 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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921endif #CGROUP_SCHED
922
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924 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
925 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
926 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
927 default n
928 help
929 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
930 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
931
932 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
933 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
934 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
935 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
936 frequency a task will always use.
937
938 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
939 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
940 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
941 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
942
943 If in doubt, say N.
944
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946 bool "PIDs controller"
947 help
948 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
949 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
950 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
951 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
952 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
953 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 954 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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956 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 957 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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959 attach to a cgroup.
960
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962 bool "RDMA controller"
963 help
964 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
965 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
966 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
967 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
968 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
969 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
970
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972 bool "Freezer controller"
973 help
974 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
975 cgroup.
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978 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
979
980 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
981
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983 bool "HugeTLB controller"
984 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
985 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 986 default n
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988 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
989 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
990 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
991 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
992 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
993 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
994 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
995 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
996 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 997
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999 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 1000 depends on SMP
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1002 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1003 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1004 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1005 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1006
6bf024e6 1007 Say N if unsure.
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1010 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1011 depends on CPUSETS
1012 default y
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1015 bool "Device controller"
1016 help
1017 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1018 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1019
1020config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1021 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1022 help
1023 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1024 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1025
1026config CGROUP_PERF
1027 bool "Perf controller"
1028 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1029 help
1030 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1031 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1033 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
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1035 Say N if unsure.
1036
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1038 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1040 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1042 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1043 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1044
1045 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1046 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1047 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1048 inet sockets.
1049
6bf024e6 1050config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1051 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1052 default n
23b0be48 1053 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1055 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1057 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1058 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1059
6bf024e6 1060 Say N.
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1063 bool
1064 default n
1065
23964d2d 1066endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1068menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1069 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1070 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1071 default !EXPERT
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1073 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1074 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1075 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1076 different namespaces.
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1081 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1082 default y
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1084 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1085 uname() system call
1086
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1088 bool "TIME namespace"
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1091 help
1092 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1093 The time will keep going with the same pace.
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1096 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1097 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1098 default y
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1100 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1101 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1103config USER_NS
19c92399 1104 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1105 default n
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1107 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1108 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1112 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1113 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1116
74bd59bb 1117config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1118 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1119 default y
74bd59bb 1120 help
12d2b8f9 1121 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1122 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1124
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1126 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1127 depends on NET
17a6d441 1128 default y
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1130 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1131 of the network stack.
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1136 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1137 select PROC_CHILDREN
1138 default n
1139 help
1140 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1141 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1142 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1143 entries.
1144
1145 If unsure, say N here.
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1148 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1150 select CGROUP_SCHED
1151 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1152 help
1153 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1154 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1155 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1156 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1157 upon task session.
1158
7af37bec 1159config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1160 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1162 default n
1163 help
1164 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1165 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1166 /sys/block/.
1167
1168 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1169 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1170
1171 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1172 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1173 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1174
1175 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1176 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1177 option enabled.
1178
1179 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1180 need to say Y here.
1181
1182config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1183 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1185 depends on SYSFS
1186 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1187 help
1188 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1189
1190 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1191 option.
1192
1193 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1194 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1195 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1196
1197config RELAY
1198 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
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1201 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1202 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1203 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1204 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1205 user space.
1206
1207 If unsure, say N.
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1210 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1212 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1213 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1214 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1215 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1216 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1218 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1219 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1220 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1221
1222 If unsure say Y.
1223
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1231 bool "Boot config support"
2910b5aa 1232 select BLK_DEV_INITRD
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1234 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
1235 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
0947db01 1236 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
85c46b78 1237 with checksum, size and magic word.
0947db01 1238 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
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1239
1240 If unsure, say Y.
1241
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1242choice
1243 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1244 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1245
1246config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1247 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1248 help
1249 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1250 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1251 helpful compile-time warnings.
1252
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1253config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1254 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1255 depends on ARC
c45b4f1f 1256 help
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1257 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1258 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1259
c45b4f1f 1260config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1261 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
c45b4f1f 1262 help
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1263 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1264 in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1265
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1266endchoice
1267
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1268config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1269 bool
1270 help
1271 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1272 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1273 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1274 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1275 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1276 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1277
1278config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1279 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1280 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1281 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1282 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1283 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1284 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1285 help
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1286 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1287 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1288 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1289
1290 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1291 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1292 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1293 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1294 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1295 own risk.
1296
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1297config SYSCTL
1298 bool
1299
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1300config HAVE_UID16
1301 bool
1302
1303config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1304 bool
1305 help
1306 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1307
1308config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1309 bool
1310 help
1311 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1312 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1313 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1314
1315config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1316 bool
1317 help
1318 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1319 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1320 the unaligned access emulation.
1321 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1322
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1323config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1324 bool
1325
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1326# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1327config BPF
1328 bool
1329
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1330menuconfig EXPERT
1331 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1332 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1333 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1334 help
1335 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
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1336 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1337 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1338 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1da177e4 1339
ae81f9e3 1340config UID16
6a108a14 1341 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1342 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1343 default y
1344 help
1345 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1346
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1347config MULTIUSER
1348 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1349 default y
1350 help
1351 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1352 capabilities.
1353
1354 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1355 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1356 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1357 setgid, and capset.
1358
1359 If unsure, say Y here.
1360
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1361config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1362 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1363 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1364 ---help---
1365 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1366 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1367 architectures.
1368
1369 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1370
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1371config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1372 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1373 default y
1374 ---help---
1375 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1376 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1377 compatibility with some systems.
1378
1379 If unsure say Y here.
1380
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1381config FHANDLE
1382 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1383 select EXPORTFS
1384 default y
1385 help
1386 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1387 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1388 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1389 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1390 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1391 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1392 syscalls.
1393
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1394config POSIX_TIMERS
1395 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1396 default y
1397 help
1398 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1399 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1400 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1401
1402 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1403 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1404 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1405 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1406 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1407 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1408
1409 If unsure say y.
1410
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1411config PRINTK
1412 default y
6a108a14 1413 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1414 select IRQ_WORK
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1415 help
1416 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1417 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1418 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1419 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1420 strongly discouraged.
1421
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1422config PRINTK_NMI
1423 def_bool y
1424 depends on PRINTK
1425 depends on HAVE_NMI
1426
c8538a7a 1427config BUG
6a108a14 1428 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1429 default y
1430 help
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1431 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1432 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1433 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1434 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1435 Just say Y.
c8538a7a 1436
708e9a79 1437config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1438 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1439 default y
6a108a14 1440 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1441 help
1442 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1443
8761f1ab 1444
e5e1d3cb 1445config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1446 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1447 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1448 select I8253_LOCK
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1449 default y
1450 help
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1451 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1452 support, saving some memory.
e5e1d3cb 1453
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1454config BASE_FULL
1455 default y
6a108a14 1456 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1457 help
1458 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1459 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1460 but may reduce performance.
1461
1462config FUTEX
6a108a14 1463 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1464 default y
bc2eecd7 1465 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1466 help
1467 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1468 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1469 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1470
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1471config FUTEX_PI
1472 bool
1473 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1474 default y
1475
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1476config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1477 bool
62b4d204 1478 depends on FUTEX
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1479 help
1480 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1481 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1482 checks.
1483
1da177e4 1484config EPOLL
6a108a14 1485 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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LT
1486 default y
1487 help
1488 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1489 support for epoll family of system calls.
1490
fba2afaa 1491config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1492 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1493 default y
1494 help
1495 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1496 on a file descriptor.
1497
1498 If unsure, say Y.
1499
b215e283 1500config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1501 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1502 default y
1503 help
1504 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1505 events on a file descriptor.
1506
1507 If unsure, say Y.
1508
e1ad7468 1509config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1510 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1511 default y
1512 help
1513 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1514 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1515
1516 If unsure, say Y.
1517
1da177e4 1518config SHMEM
6a108a14 1519 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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LT
1520 default y
1521 depends on MMU
1522 help
1523 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1524 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1525 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1526 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1527 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1528
ebf3f09c 1529config AIO
6a108a14 1530 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1531 default y
1532 help
1533 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1534 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1535 this option saves about 7k.
1536
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1537config IO_URING
1538 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
561fb04a 1539 select IO_WQ
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1540 default y
1541 help
1542 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1543 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1544 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1545
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1546config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1547 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1548 default y
1549 help
1550 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1551 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1552 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1553 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1554 space.
1555
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1556config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
1557 bool
1558 help
1559 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
1560
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1561config MEMBARRIER
1562 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1563 default y
1564 help
1565 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1566 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1567 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1568 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1569 compiler barrier.
1570
1571 If unsure, say Y.
1572
d1b069f5 1573config KALLSYMS
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1574 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1575 default y
1576 help
1577 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1578 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1579 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
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1580
1581config KALLSYMS_ALL
1582 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1584 help
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KK
1585 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1586 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1587 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1588 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1589 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
d1b069f5 1590
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1591 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1592 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1593 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1594 something like this).
d1b069f5 1595
e8cf4e9c 1596 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1597
1598config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1599 bool
1600 depends on KALLSYMS
1601 default X86_64 && SMP
1602
1603config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1604 bool
1605 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1606 default !IA64
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1607 help
1608 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1609 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1610 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1611 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1612 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1613 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1614 address encountered in the image.
1615
1616 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1617 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1618 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1619 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1620
1621# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1622
1623# syscall, maps, verifier
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1624
1625config BPF_LSM
1626 bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
4edf16b7 1627 depends on BPF_EVENTS
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1628 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1629 depends on SECURITY
1630 depends on BPF_JIT
1631 help
1632 Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1633 implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1634
1635 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1636
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1637config BPF_SYSCALL
1638 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1639 select BPF
bae77c5e 1640 select IRQ_WORK
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1641 default n
1642 help
1643 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1644 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1645
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1646config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
1647 bool
1648
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1649config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1650 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1651 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1652 help
1653 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1654 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1655
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1656config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
1657 def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1658 depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1659
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1660config USERFAULTFD
1661 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1662 depends on MMU
1663 help
1664 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1665 handle page faults in userland.
1666
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1667config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1668 bool
1669
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1670config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1671 bool
1672
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1673config RSEQ
1674 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1675 default y
1676 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1677 select MEMBARRIER
1678 help
1679 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1680 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1681 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1682 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1683 per-CPU data.
1684
1685 If unsure, say Y.
1686
1687config DEBUG_RSEQ
1688 default n
1689 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1690 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1691 help
1692 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1693
1694 If unsure, say N.
1695
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1696config EMBEDDED
1697 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1698 option allnoconfig_y
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1699 select EXPERT
1700 help
1701 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1702 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1703 for configuration.
1704
cdd6c482 1705config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1706 bool
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1707 help
1708 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1709
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1710config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1711 bool
1712 help
1713 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1714
ad90a3de 1715config PC104
424529fb 1716 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1717 help
1718 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1719 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1720 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1721
57c0c15b 1722menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1723
cdd6c482 1724config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1725 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1726 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1727 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1728 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1729 select SRCU
0793a61d 1730 help
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1731 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1732 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1733
dd77038d 1734 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1735 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1736
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1737 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1738 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1739 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1740 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1741 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1742 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1743 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1744
57c0c15b 1745 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1746 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1747 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1748 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1749 capabilities on top of those.
1750
1751 Say Y if unsure.
1752
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1753config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1754 default n
1755 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1756 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1757 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1758 help
e8cf4e9c 1759 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
906010b2 1760
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1761 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1762 that don't require it.
906010b2 1763
e8cf4e9c 1764 Say N if unsure.
906010b2 1765
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1766endmenu
1767
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1768config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1769 default y
6a108a14 1770 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1771 help
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1772 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1773 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1774 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1775 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1776
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1777config SLUB_DEBUG
1778 default y
6a108a14 1779 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1780 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1781 help
1782 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1783 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1784 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1785 no support for cache validation etc.
1786
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1787config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1788 default n
1789 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1790 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1791 help
1792 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1793 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1794 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1795 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1796 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1797 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1798 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1799 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1800
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1801config COMPAT_BRK
1802 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1803 default y
1804 help
1805 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1806 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1807 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1808 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1809 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1810
1811 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1812
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1813choice
1814 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1815 default SLUB
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1816 help
1817 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1818
1819config SLAB
1820 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1821 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1822 help
1823 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1824 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1825 per cpu and per node queues.
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1826
1827config SLUB
81819f0f 1828 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1829 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1830 help
1831 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1832 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1833 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1834 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1835 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1836 a slab allocator.
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1838config SLOB
6a108a14 1839 depends on EXPERT
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1840 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1841 help
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1842 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1843 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1844 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1847
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1848config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1849 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1850 default y
1851 help
1852 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1853 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1854 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1855 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1856 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1857 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1858 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1859 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1860 command line.
1861
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1862config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1863 default n
210e7a43 1864 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1865 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1866 help
210e7a43 1867 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1868 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1869 allocator against heap overflows.
1870
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1871config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1872 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1873 depends on SLUB
1874 help
1875 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1876 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1877 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1878 freelist exploit methods.
1879
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1881 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1882 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1883 help
1884 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1885 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1886 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1887 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1888 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1889 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1890 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1891 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1892 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1893 benefits on x86.
1894
1895 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1896 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1897 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1898 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1899 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1900 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1901
1902 Say Y if unsure.
1903
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1904config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1905 default y
b39ffbf8 1906 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1907 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1908 help
92bae787 1909 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1910 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1911 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1912 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1913 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1914
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1915config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1916 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1917 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1918 default n
1919 help
1920 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1921 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1922 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1923 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1924 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1925 then the flag will be ignored.
1926
1927 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1928 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1929
1930 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1931 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1932 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1933 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1934
1935 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1936
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1937config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1938 def_bool n
1939 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1940 select KEYS
1941 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1942 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1943 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1944 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1945 select ASN1
1946 select OID_REGISTRY
1947 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1948 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1949 help
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1950 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1951 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1952 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1953 verification.
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125e5645 1955config PROFILING
b309a294 1956 bool "Profiling support"
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1957 help
1958 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1959 by profilers such as OProfile.
1960
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1961#
1962# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1963# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1964#
97e1c18e 1965config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1966 bool
97e1c18e 1967
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1969
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1970source "arch/Kconfig"
1971
ae81f9e3 1972config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1973 bool
ae81f9e3 1974
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1975config BASE_SMALL
1976 int
1977 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1978 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1979
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1980config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1981 def_bool n
1982 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1983
66da5733 1984menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1985 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1986 option modules
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1987 help
1988 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1989 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1990 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1991 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1992 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1993 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1994 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1995 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1996 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1997
1998 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1999 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
2000 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
2001 this).
2002
2003 If unsure, say Y.
2004
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2006
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2007config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2008 bool "Forced module loading"
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2009 default n
2010 help
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2011 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
2012 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
2013 is usually a really bad idea.
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2015config MODULE_UNLOAD
2016 bool "Module unloading"
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2017 help
2018 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2019 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2020 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2021 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2022
2023config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2024 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2025 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2026 help
2027 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2028 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2029 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2030 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2031 If unsure, say N.
2032
1da177e4 2033config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2034 bool "Module versioning support"
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2035 help
2036 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2037 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2038 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2039 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2040 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2041 unsure, say N.
2042
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2043config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2044 bool
2045 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2046 help
2047 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2048 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2049 supports it.
2050
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2051config MODULE_REL_CRCS
2052 bool
2053 depends on MODVERSIONS
2054
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2055config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2056 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2057 help
2058 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2059 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2060 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2061 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2062 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2063 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2064 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2065
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2067 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2068 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2069 help
2070 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2071 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2072 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2074 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2075 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2076 library.
2077
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2078 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2079 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2080 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2081 of the lockdown policy.
2082
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2083 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2084 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2085 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2086 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2087
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2088config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2089 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2090 depends on MODULE_SIG
2091 help
2092 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2093 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2095config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2096 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2097 default y
2098 depends on MODULE_SIG
2099 help
2100 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2101 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2102
2103comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2104 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2105
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2106choice
2107 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2108 depends on MODULE_SIG
2109 help
2110 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2111 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2112 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2113 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2114 the signature on that module.
2115
2116config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2117 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2118 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2119
2120config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2121 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2122 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2123
2124config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2125 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2126 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2127
2128config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2129 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2130 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2131
2132config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2133 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2134 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2135
2136endchoice
2137
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2138config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2139 string
2140 depends on MODULE_SIG
2141 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2142 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2143 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2144 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2145 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2146
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2147config MODULE_COMPRESS
2148 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2149 help
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2151 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2152 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
beb50df3 2153
b6c09b51 2154 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2156 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2157 compressed upon installation.
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2159 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2160 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2162 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2163
2164 If in doubt, say N.
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2165
2166choice
2167 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2168 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2169 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2170 help
2171 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2172 'make modules_install'.
2173
2174 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2175
2176config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2177 bool "GZIP"
2178
2179config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2180 bool "XZ"
2181
2182endchoice
2183
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2184config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2185 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2186 help
2187 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2188 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2189 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2190 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2191 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2192 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2193 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2194
2195 If unsure, say N.
2196
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2197config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2198 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2199 default y if X86
2200 help
2201 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2202 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2203 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2204 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2205 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2206 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2207 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2208 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2209 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2210 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2211 your module is.
2212
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2213config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2214 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2215 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2216 help
2217 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2218 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2219 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2220 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2221
2222 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2223 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2224 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2225 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2226
f1cb637e 2227 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2229config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
2230 string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
2231 depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2232 help
2233 By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
2234 build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
2235
2236 UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
2237 exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
2238 set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
2239 one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
2240 source tree.
2241
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2243
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2244config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2245 def_bool y
2246 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2247
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2248config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2249 bool
2250 help
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2251 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2252 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2253 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2254 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2255 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2257source "block/Kconfig"
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2259config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2260 bool
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2262config PADATA
2263 depends on SMP
2264 bool
2265
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2266config ASN1
2267 tristate
2268 help
2269 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2270 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2271 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2272 functions to call on what tags.
2273
6beb0009 2274source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2276config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
2277 bool
2278
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2279config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2280 bool
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2281
2282# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2283# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2284# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2285# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2286# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2287# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2288# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2289config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2290 def_bool n