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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2config DEFCONFIG_LIST
3 string
b2670eac 4 depends on !UML
face4374 5 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 6 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 7 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 8 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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9 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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12config CC_IS_GCC
13 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14
15config GCC_VERSION
16 int
fa7295ab 17 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
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18 default 0
19
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20config CC_IS_CLANG
21 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22
23config CLANG_VERSION
24 int
25 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26
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27config CC_CAN_LINK
28 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
29
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30config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32
5cf896fb 33config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 34 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
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36config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
37 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
38
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39config CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
40 def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
41 help
42 GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
43
44config CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
45 bool
46 depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
47 default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
48 help
49 GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
50 Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
51
52 If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
53 to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
54
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55config CONSTRUCTORS
56 bool
87c9366e 57 depends on !UML
b99b87f7 58
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59config IRQ_WORK
60 bool
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10916706 62config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
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63 bool
64
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65config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
66 bool
67 help
68 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
69 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
70 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
71
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72 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
73 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
74
ff0cfc66 75menu "General setup"
1da177e4 76
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77config BROKEN
78 bool
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79
80config BROKEN_ON_SMP
81 bool
82 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
83 default y
84
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85config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
86 int
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87 default 32 if !UML
88 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 89 help
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90 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
91 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 92
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93config COMPILE_TEST
94 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 95 depends on !UML
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96 default n
97 help
98 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
99 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
100 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
101 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
102 drivers to compile-test them.
103
104 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
105 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
106 drivers to be distributed.
107
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108config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
109 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
fcbb8461 110 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
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111 help
112 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
113 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
114
115 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
116 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
117
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118config LOCALVERSION
119 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
120 help
121 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
122 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
123 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
124 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
125 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
126 be a maximum of 64 characters.
127
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128config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
129 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
130 default y
ac3339ba 131 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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132 help
133 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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134 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
135 top of tree revision.
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136
137 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 138 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 139 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 140 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 141
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142 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
143 by running the command:
144
145 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
146
147 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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9afb719e 149config BUILD_SALT
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150 string "Build ID Salt"
151 default ""
152 help
153 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
154 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
155 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
156 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
9afb719e 157
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158config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
159 bool
160
161config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
162 bool
163
164config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
165 bool
166
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167config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 bool
169
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170config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
171 bool
172
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173config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
174 bool
175
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176config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
177 bool
178
30d65dbf 179choice
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180 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
181 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 183 help
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184 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
185 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
186 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
187 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
188 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
189
190 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
191 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
192 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
193 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
194
195 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
196 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
197 size matters less.
198
199 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
200
201config KERNEL_GZIP
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202 bool "Gzip"
203 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
204 help
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205 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
206 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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207
208config KERNEL_BZIP2
209 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 210 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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211 help
212 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 213 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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214 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
215 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
216 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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218config KERNEL_LZMA
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219 bool "LZMA"
220 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
221 help
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222 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
223 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
224 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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226config KERNEL_XZ
227 bool "XZ"
228 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
229 help
230 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
231 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
232 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
233 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
234 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
235 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
236
237 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
238 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
239 and LZO. Compression is slow.
240
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241config KERNEL_LZO
242 bool "LZO"
243 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
244 help
0a4dd35c 245 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 246 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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247 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
248
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249config KERNEL_LZ4
250 bool "LZ4"
251 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
252 help
253 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
254 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
255 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
256
257 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
258 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
259 faster than LZO.
260
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261config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
262 bool "None"
263 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
264 help
265 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
266 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
267 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
268 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
269 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
270
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272
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273config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
274 string "Default hostname"
275 default "(none)"
276 help
277 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
278 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
279 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
280 system more usable with less configuration.
281
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282#
283# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
284# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
285#
286config ARCH_NO_SWAP
287 bool
288
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289config SWAP
290 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 291 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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292 default y
293 help
294 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 295 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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296 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
297 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
298
299config SYSVIPC
300 bool "System V IPC"
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301 ---help---
302 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
303 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
304 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
305 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
306 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
307 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
308 you'll need to say Y here.
309
310 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
311 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
312 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
313
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314config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
315 bool
316 depends on SYSVIPC
317 depends on SYSCTL
318 default y
319
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320config POSIX_MQUEUE
321 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 322 depends on NET
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323 ---help---
324 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
325 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
326 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
327 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 328 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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329
330 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
331 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
332 operations on message queues.
333
334 If unsure, say Y.
335
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336config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
337 bool
338 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
339 depends on SYSCTL
340 default y
341
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342config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
343 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
344 depends on MMU
345 default y
346 help
347 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
348 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 349 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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350 See the man page for more details.
351
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352config USELIB
353 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 354 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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355 help
356 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
357 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
358 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
359 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
360 running glibc can safely disable this.
361
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362config AUDIT
363 bool "Auditing support"
364 depends on NET
365 help
366 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
367 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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368 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
369 on architectures which support it.
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371config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
372 bool
373
391dc69c 374config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 375 def_bool y
7a017721 376 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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377 select FSNOTIFY
378
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379source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
380source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 381source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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382
383menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
384
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385config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
386 bool
387
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388choice
389 prompt "Cputime accounting"
390 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 391 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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392
393# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
394config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
395 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 396 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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397 help
398 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
399 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
400 granularity.
401
402 If unsure, say Y.
403
abf917cd 404config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 405 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 406 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 407 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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408 help
409 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
410 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
411 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
412 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
413 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
414 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
415 systems.
416
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417config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
418 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 419 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 420 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
041a1574 421 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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422 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
423 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
424 help
425 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
426 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
427 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
428 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
429 overhead.
430
431 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
432 dynticks subsystem development.
433
434 If unsure, say N.
435
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437
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438config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
439 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 440 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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441 help
442 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
443 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
444 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
445 small performance impact.
446
447 If in doubt, say N here.
448
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449config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
450 def_bool y
451 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
452 depends on SMP
453
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454config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
455 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 456 depends on MULTIUSER
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457 help
458 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
459 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
460 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
461 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
462 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
463 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
464 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
465 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
466 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
467
468config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
469 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
470 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
471 default n
472 help
473 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
474 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 475 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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476 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
477 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 478 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 479
c757249a 480config TASKSTATS
19c92399 481 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 482 depends on NET
2813893f 483 depends on MULTIUSER
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484 default n
485 help
486 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
487 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
488 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
489 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
490 space on task exit.
491
492 Say N if unsure.
493
ca74e92b 494config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 495 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 496 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 497 select SCHED_INFO
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498 help
499 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
500 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
501 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
502 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
503
504 Say N if unsure.
505
18f705f4 506config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 507 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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508 depends on TASKSTATS
509 help
510 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
511 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
512
513 Say N if unsure.
514
515config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 516 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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517 depends on TASK_XACCT
518 help
519 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
520 task has caused.
521
522 Say N if unsure.
523
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524config PSI
525 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
526 help
527 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
528 and IO capacity are in the system.
529
530 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
531 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
532 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
533 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
534
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535 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
536 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
537 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
538
c3123552 539 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
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541 Say N if unsure.
542
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543config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
544 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
545 default n
546 depends on PSI
547 help
548 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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549 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
550 kernel commandline during boot.
e0c27447 551
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552 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
553 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
554 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
555 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
556 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
557
558 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
559 used for, say Y.
560
561 Say N if unsure.
562
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565config CPU_ISOLATION
566 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 567 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 568 default y
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569 help
570 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
571 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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572 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
573 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
574
575 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 576
0af92d46 577source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
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579config BUILD_BIN2C
580 bool
581 default n
582
1da177e4 583config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 584 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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585 ---help---
586 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
587 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
588 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
589 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
590 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
591 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
592 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
593 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
594
595config IKCONFIG_PROC
596 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
597 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
598 ---help---
599 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
600 through /proc/config.gz.
601
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602config IKHEADERS
603 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
604 depends on SYSFS
605 help
606 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
607 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
608 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
609 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
43d8ce9d 610
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611config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
612 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 613 range 12 25
f17a32e9 614 default 17
361e9dfb 615 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 616 help
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617 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
618 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
619 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
620 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
621
f17a32e9 622 Examples:
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626 14 => 16 KB
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628 12 => 4 KB
629
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631 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 632 depends on SMP
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633 range 0 21
634 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
635 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 636 depends on PRINTK
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638 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
639 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
640 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
641 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
642 e.g. backtraces.
643
644 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
645 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
646 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
647 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
648 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
649 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
650
651 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
652 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
653
654 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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656 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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658 Examples shift values and their meaning:
659 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
660 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
661 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
662 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
663 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
664 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
665
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666config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
667 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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669 default 13
f92bac3b 670 depends on PRINTK
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672 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
673 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
674 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
675 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
676 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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680 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
681
682 Examples:
683 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
684 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
685 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
686 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
687 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
688 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
689
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691# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
692#
693config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
694 bool
695
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697 bool
698
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700
701config UCLAMP_TASK
702 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
703 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
704 help
705 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
706 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
707
708 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
709 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
710 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
711 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
712
713 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
714 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
715 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
716
717 If in doubt, say N.
718
719config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
720 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
721 range 5 20
722 default 5
723 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
724 help
725 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
726 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
727 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
728 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
729
730 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
731 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
732 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
733 effective value to 25%.
734 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
735 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
736 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
737 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
738 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
739 that bucket.
740
741 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
742 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
743 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
744 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
745 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
746 precision.
747
748 If in doubt, use the default value.
749
750endmenu
751
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753# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
754# balancing logic:
755#
756config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
757 bool
758
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760# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
761# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
762# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
763# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
764# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
765# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
766config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
767 bool
768
c12d3362 769config CC_HAS_INT128
3a7c7331 770 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
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773# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
774#
775config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
776 bool
777
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779# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
780#
781config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
782 bool
783
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785 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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787 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
788 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
789 help
790 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
791 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 792 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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794 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
795
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797 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
798 default y
799 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
800 help
801 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
802 machine.
803
23964d2d 804menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 805 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 806 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 807 help
23964d2d 808 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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809 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
810 controls or device isolation.
811 See
d6a3b247 812 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 813 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 814 and resource control)
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816 Say N if unsure.
817
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819
3e32cb2e 820config PAGE_COUNTER
e8cf4e9c 821 bool
3e32cb2e 822
c255a458 823config MEMCG
a0166ec4 824 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 825 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 826 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 827 help
a0166ec4 828 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 829
c255a458 830config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 831 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 832 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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834 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
835
c255a458 836config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 837 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 838 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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839 default y
840 help
841 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
842 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 843 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 844 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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845 parameter should have this option unselected.
846 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
847 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 848 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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850config MEMCG_KMEM
851 bool
852 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
853 default y
854
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855config BLK_CGROUP
856 bool "IO controller"
857 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 858 default n
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859 ---help---
860 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
861 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
862 policies.
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865 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
866 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
867 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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870 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
871 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
872 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
873 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
874
da82c92f 875 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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877config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
878 bool
879 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
880 default y
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7c941438 882menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 883 bool "CPU controller"
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884 default n
885 help
886 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
887 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
888 tasks.
889
890if CGROUP_SCHED
891config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
892 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
893 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
894 default CGROUP_SCHED
895
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897 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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899 default n
900 help
901 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
902 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
903 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
904 restriction.
d6a3b247 905 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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908 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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910 default n
911 help
912 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 913 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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915 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 916 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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918endif #CGROUP_SCHED
919
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921 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
922 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
923 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
924 default n
925 help
926 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
927 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
928
929 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
930 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
931 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
932 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
933 frequency a task will always use.
934
935 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
936 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
937 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
938 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
939
940 If in doubt, say N.
941
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943 bool "PIDs controller"
944 help
945 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
946 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
947 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
948 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
949 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
950 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 951 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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953 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 954 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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956 attach to a cgroup.
957
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959 bool "RDMA controller"
960 help
961 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
962 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
963 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
964 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
965 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
966 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
967
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969 bool "Freezer controller"
970 help
971 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
972 cgroup.
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975 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
976
977 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
978
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980 bool "HugeTLB controller"
981 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
982 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 983 default n
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985 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
986 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
987 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
988 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
989 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
990 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
991 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
992 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
993 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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996 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 997 depends on SMP
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999 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1000 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1001 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1002 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1003
6bf024e6 1004 Say N if unsure.
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1006config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1007 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1008 depends on CPUSETS
1009 default y
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1012 bool "Device controller"
1013 help
1014 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1015 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1016
1017config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1018 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1019 help
1020 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1021 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1022
1023config CGROUP_PERF
1024 bool "Perf controller"
1025 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1026 help
1027 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1028 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1029 designated cpu.
1030
1031 Say N if unsure.
1032
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1034 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1036 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1038 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1039 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1040
1041 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1042 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1043 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1044 inet sockets.
1045
6bf024e6 1046config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1047 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1048 default n
23b0be48 1049 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1051 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1053 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1054 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1055
6bf024e6 1056 Say N.
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1059 bool
1060 default n
1061
23964d2d 1062endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1064menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1065 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1066 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1067 default !EXPERT
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1069 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1070 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1071 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1072 different namespaces.
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1077 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1078 default y
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1080 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1081 uname() system call
1082
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1084 bool "TIME namespace"
660fd04f 1085 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
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1087 help
1088 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1089 The time will keep going with the same pace.
1090
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1092 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1093 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1094 default y
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1096 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1097 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1098
aee16ce7 1099config USER_NS
19c92399 1100 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1101 default n
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1103 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1104 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1106 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1108 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1109 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1112
74bd59bb 1113config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1114 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1115 default y
74bd59bb 1116 help
12d2b8f9 1117 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1118 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1120
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1122 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1123 depends on NET
17a6d441 1124 default y
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1126 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1127 of the network stack.
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1132 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1133 select PROC_CHILDREN
1134 default n
1135 help
1136 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1137 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1138 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1139 entries.
1140
1141 If unsure, say N here.
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1144 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1146 select CGROUP_SCHED
1147 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1148 help
1149 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1150 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1151 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1152 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1153 upon task session.
1154
7af37bec 1155config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1156 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1158 default n
1159 help
1160 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1161 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1162 /sys/block/.
1163
1164 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1165 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1166
1167 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1168 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1169 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1170
1171 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1172 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1173 option enabled.
1174
1175 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1176 need to say Y here.
1177
1178config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1179 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1181 depends on SYSFS
1182 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1183 help
1184 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1185
1186 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1187 option.
1188
1189 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1190 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1191 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1192
1193config RELAY
1194 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1195 select IRQ_WORK
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1197 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1198 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1199 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1200 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1201 user space.
1202
1203 If unsure, say N.
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1206 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1208 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1209 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1210 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1211 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1212 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1214 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1215 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1216 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1217
1218 If unsure say Y.
1219
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1221
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1227 bool "Boot config support"
2910b5aa 1228 select BLK_DEV_INITRD
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1230 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
1231 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
0947db01 1232 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
85c46b78 1233 with checksum, size and magic word.
0947db01 1234 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
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1235
1236 If unsure, say Y.
1237
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1238choice
1239 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1240 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1241
1242config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1243 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1244 help
1245 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1246 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1247 helpful compile-time warnings.
1248
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1249config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1250 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1251 depends on ARC
b303c6df 1252 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1253 help
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1254 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1255 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1256
c45b4f1f 1257config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1258 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
b303c6df 1259 imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
c45b4f1f 1260 help
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1261 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1262 in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1263
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1264endchoice
1265
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1266config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1267 bool
1268 help
1269 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1270 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1271 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1272 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1273 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1274 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1275
1276config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1277 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1278 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1279 depends on EXPERT
16fd20aa 1280 depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
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1281 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1282 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1283 help
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1284 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1285 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1286 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1287
1288 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1289 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1290 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1291 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1292 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1293 own risk.
1294
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1295config SYSCTL
1296 bool
1297
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1298config HAVE_UID16
1299 bool
1300
1301config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1302 bool
1303 help
1304 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1305
1306config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1307 bool
1308 help
1309 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1310 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1311 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1312
1313config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1314 bool
1315 help
1316 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1317 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1318 the unaligned access emulation.
1319 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1320
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1321config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1322 bool
1323
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1324# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1325config BPF
1326 bool
1327
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1328menuconfig EXPERT
1329 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1330 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1331 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1332 help
1333 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
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1334 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1335 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1336 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1da177e4 1337
ae81f9e3 1338config UID16
6a108a14 1339 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1340 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1341 default y
1342 help
1343 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1344
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1345config MULTIUSER
1346 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1347 default y
1348 help
1349 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1350 capabilities.
1351
1352 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1353 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1354 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1355 setgid, and capset.
1356
1357 If unsure, say Y here.
1358
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1359config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1360 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1361 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1362 ---help---
1363 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1364 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1365 architectures.
1366
1367 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1368
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1369config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1370 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1371 default y
1372 ---help---
1373 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1374 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1375 compatibility with some systems.
1376
1377 If unsure say Y here.
1378
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1379config FHANDLE
1380 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1381 select EXPORTFS
1382 default y
1383 help
1384 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1385 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1386 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1387 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1388 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1389 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1390 syscalls.
1391
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1392config POSIX_TIMERS
1393 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1394 default y
1395 help
1396 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1397 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1398 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1399
1400 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1401 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1402 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1403 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1404 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1405 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1406
1407 If unsure say y.
1408
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1409config PRINTK
1410 default y
6a108a14 1411 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1412 select IRQ_WORK
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1413 help
1414 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1415 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1416 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1417 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1418 strongly discouraged.
1419
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1420config PRINTK_NMI
1421 def_bool y
1422 depends on PRINTK
1423 depends on HAVE_NMI
1424
c8538a7a 1425config BUG
6a108a14 1426 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1427 default y
1428 help
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1429 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1430 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1431 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1432 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1433 Just say Y.
c8538a7a 1434
708e9a79 1435config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1436 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1437 default y
6a108a14 1438 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1439 help
1440 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1441
8761f1ab 1442
e5e1d3cb 1443config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1444 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1445 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1446 select I8253_LOCK
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1447 default y
1448 help
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1449 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1450 support, saving some memory.
e5e1d3cb 1451
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1452config BASE_FULL
1453 default y
6a108a14 1454 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1455 help
1456 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1457 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1458 but may reduce performance.
1459
1460config FUTEX
6a108a14 1461 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1462 default y
bc2eecd7 1463 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1464 help
1465 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1466 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1467 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1468
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1469config FUTEX_PI
1470 bool
1471 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1472 default y
1473
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1474config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1475 bool
62b4d204 1476 depends on FUTEX
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1477 help
1478 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1479 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1480 checks.
1481
1da177e4 1482config EPOLL
6a108a14 1483 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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1484 default y
1485 help
1486 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1487 support for epoll family of system calls.
1488
fba2afaa 1489config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1490 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1491 default y
1492 help
1493 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1494 on a file descriptor.
1495
1496 If unsure, say Y.
1497
b215e283 1498config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1499 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1500 default y
1501 help
1502 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1503 events on a file descriptor.
1504
1505 If unsure, say Y.
1506
e1ad7468 1507config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1508 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1509 default y
1510 help
1511 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1512 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1513
1514 If unsure, say Y.
1515
1da177e4 1516config SHMEM
6a108a14 1517 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1518 default y
1519 depends on MMU
1520 help
1521 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1522 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1523 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1524 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1525 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1526
ebf3f09c 1527config AIO
6a108a14 1528 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1529 default y
1530 help
1531 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1532 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1533 this option saves about 7k.
1534
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1535config IO_URING
1536 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1537 select ANON_INODES
561fb04a 1538 select IO_WQ
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1539 default y
1540 help
1541 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1542 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1543 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1544
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1545config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1546 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1547 default y
1548 help
1549 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1550 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1551 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1552 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1553 space.
1554
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1555config MEMBARRIER
1556 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1557 default y
1558 help
1559 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1560 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1561 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1562 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1563 compiler barrier.
1564
1565 If unsure, say Y.
1566
d1b069f5 1567config KALLSYMS
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1568 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1569 default y
1570 help
1571 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1572 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1573 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
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1574
1575config KALLSYMS_ALL
1576 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1577 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1578 help
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1579 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1580 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1581 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1582 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1583 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
d1b069f5 1584
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1585 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1586 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1587 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1588 something like this).
d1b069f5 1589
e8cf4e9c 1590 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1591
1592config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1593 bool
1594 depends on KALLSYMS
1595 default X86_64 && SMP
1596
1597config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1598 bool
1599 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1600 default !IA64
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1601 help
1602 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1603 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1604 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1605 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1606 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1607 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1608 address encountered in the image.
1609
1610 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1611 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1612 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1613 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1614
1615# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1616
1617# syscall, maps, verifier
1618config BPF_SYSCALL
1619 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
d1b069f5 1620 select BPF
bae77c5e 1621 select IRQ_WORK
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1622 default n
1623 help
1624 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1625 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1626
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1627config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
1628 bool
1629
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1630config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1631 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1632 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1633 help
1634 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1635 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1636
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1637config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
1638 def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1639 depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1640
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1641config USERFAULTFD
1642 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1643 depends on MMU
1644 help
1645 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1646 handle page faults in userland.
1647
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1648config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1649 bool
1650
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1651config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1652 bool
1653
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1654config RSEQ
1655 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1656 default y
1657 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1658 select MEMBARRIER
1659 help
1660 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1661 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1662 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1663 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1664 per-CPU data.
1665
1666 If unsure, say Y.
1667
1668config DEBUG_RSEQ
1669 default n
1670 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1671 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1672 help
1673 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1674
1675 If unsure, say N.
1676
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1677config EMBEDDED
1678 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1679 option allnoconfig_y
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1680 select EXPERT
1681 help
1682 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1683 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1684 for configuration.
1685
cdd6c482 1686config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1687 bool
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1688 help
1689 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1690
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1691config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1692 bool
1693 help
1694 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1695
ad90a3de 1696config PC104
424529fb 1697 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1698 help
1699 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1700 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1701 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1702
57c0c15b 1703menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1704
cdd6c482 1705config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1706 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1707 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1708 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1709 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1710 select SRCU
0793a61d 1711 help
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1712 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1713 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1714
dd77038d 1715 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1716 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1717
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1718 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1719 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1720 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1721 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1722 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1723 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1724 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1725
57c0c15b 1726 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1727 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1728 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1729 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1730 capabilities on top of those.
1731
1732 Say Y if unsure.
1733
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1734config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1735 default n
1736 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1737 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1738 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1739 help
e8cf4e9c 1740 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
906010b2 1741
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1742 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1743 that don't require it.
906010b2 1744
e8cf4e9c 1745 Say N if unsure.
906010b2 1746
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1747endmenu
1748
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1749config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1750 default y
6a108a14 1751 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1752 help
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1753 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1754 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1755 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1756 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1757
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1758config SLUB_DEBUG
1759 default y
6a108a14 1760 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1761 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1762 help
1763 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1764 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1765 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1766 no support for cache validation etc.
1767
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1768config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1769 default n
1770 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1771 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1772 help
1773 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1774 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1775 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1776 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1777 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1778 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1779 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1780 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1781
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1782config COMPAT_BRK
1783 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1784 default y
1785 help
1786 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1787 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1788 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1789 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1790 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1791
1792 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1793
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1794choice
1795 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1796 default SLUB
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1797 help
1798 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1799
1800config SLAB
1801 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1802 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1803 help
1804 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1805 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1806 per cpu and per node queues.
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1807
1808config SLUB
81819f0f 1809 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1810 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1811 help
1812 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1813 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1814 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1815 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1816 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1817 a slab allocator.
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1818
1819config SLOB
6a108a14 1820 depends on EXPERT
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1821 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1822 help
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1823 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1824 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1825 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1828
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1829config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1830 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1831 default y
1832 help
1833 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1834 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1835 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1836 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1837 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1838 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1839 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1840 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1841 command line.
1842
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1843config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1844 default n
210e7a43 1845 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1846 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1847 help
210e7a43 1848 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1849 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1850 allocator against heap overflows.
1851
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1852config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1853 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1854 depends on SLUB
1855 help
1856 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1857 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1858 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1859 freelist exploit methods.
1860
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1861config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1862 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1863 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1864 help
1865 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1866 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1867 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1868 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1869 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1870 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1871 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1872 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1873 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1874 benefits on x86.
1875
1876 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1877 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1878 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1879 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1880 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1881 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1882
1883 Say Y if unsure.
1884
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1885config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1886 default y
b39ffbf8 1887 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1888 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1889 help
92bae787 1890 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1891 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1892 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1893 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1894 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1895
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1896config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1897 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1898 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1899 default n
1900 help
1901 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1902 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1903 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1904 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1905 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1906 then the flag will be ignored.
1907
1908 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1909 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1910
1911 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1912 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1913 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1914 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1915
1916 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1917
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1918config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1919 def_bool n
1920 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1921 select KEYS
1922 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1923 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1924 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1925 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1926 select ASN1
1927 select OID_REGISTRY
1928 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1929 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1930 help
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1931 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1932 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1933 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1934 verification.
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125e5645 1936config PROFILING
b309a294 1937 bool "Profiling support"
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1938 help
1939 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1940 by profilers such as OProfile.
1941
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1943# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1944# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1945#
97e1c18e 1946config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1947 bool
97e1c18e 1948
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1950
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1951source "arch/Kconfig"
1952
ae81f9e3 1953config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1954 bool
ae81f9e3 1955
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1956config BASE_SMALL
1957 int
1958 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1959 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1960
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1961config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1962 def_bool n
1963 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1964
66da5733 1965menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1966 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1967 option modules
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1968 help
1969 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1970 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1971 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1972 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1973 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1974 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1975 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1976 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1977 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1978
1979 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1980 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1981 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1982 this).
1983
1984 If unsure, say Y.
1985
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1987
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1988config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1989 bool "Forced module loading"
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1990 default n
1991 help
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1992 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1993 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1994 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1995
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1996config MODULE_UNLOAD
1997 bool "Module unloading"
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1998 help
1999 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2000 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2002 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2004config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2005 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2006 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2007 help
2008 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2009 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2010 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2011 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2012 If unsure, say N.
2013
1da177e4 2014config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2015 bool "Module versioning support"
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2016 help
2017 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2018 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2019 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2020 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2021 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2022 unsure, say N.
2023
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2024config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2025 bool
2026 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2027 help
2028 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2029 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2030 supports it.
2031
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2032config MODULE_REL_CRCS
2033 bool
2034 depends on MODVERSIONS
2035
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2036config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2037 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2038 help
2039 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2040 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2041 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2042 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2043 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2044 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2045 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2046
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2048 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2049 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2050 help
2051 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2052 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2053 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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2055 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2056 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2057 library.
2058
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2059 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2060 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2061 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2062 of the lockdown policy.
2063
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2064 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2065 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2066 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2067 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2068
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2069config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2070 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2071 depends on MODULE_SIG
2072 help
2073 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2074 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2076config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2077 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2078 default y
2079 depends on MODULE_SIG
2080 help
2081 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2082 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2083
2084comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2085 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2086
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2087choice
2088 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2089 depends on MODULE_SIG
2090 help
2091 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2092 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2093 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2094 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2095 the signature on that module.
2096
2097config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2098 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2099 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2100
2101config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2102 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2103 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2104
2105config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2106 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2107 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2108
2109config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2110 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2111 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2112
2113config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2114 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2115 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2116
2117endchoice
2118
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2119config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2120 string
2121 depends on MODULE_SIG
2122 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2123 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2124 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2125 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2126 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2127
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2128config MODULE_COMPRESS
2129 bool "Compress modules on installation"
beb50df3 2130 help
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2132 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2133 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
beb50df3 2134
b6c09b51 2135 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2137 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2138 compressed upon installation.
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2140 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2141 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2143 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2144
2145 If in doubt, say N.
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2146
2147choice
2148 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2149 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2150 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2151 help
2152 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2153 'make modules_install'.
2154
2155 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2156
2157config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2158 bool "GZIP"
2159
2160config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2161 bool "XZ"
2162
2163endchoice
2164
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2165config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2166 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2167 help
2168 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2169 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2170 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2171 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2172 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2173 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2174 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2175
2176 If unsure, say N.
2177
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2178config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2179 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2180 default y if X86
2181 help
2182 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
2183 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
2184 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2185 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2186 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2187 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2188 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2189 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
2190 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2191 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2192 your module is.
2193
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2194config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2195 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
d189c2a4 2196 depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
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2197 help
2198 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2199 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2200 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2201 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2202
2203 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2204 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2205 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2206 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2207
f1cb637e 2208 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2211
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2212config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2213 def_bool y
2214 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2215
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2216config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2217 bool
2218 help
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2219 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2220 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2221 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2222 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2223 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2225source "block/Kconfig"
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2227config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2228 bool
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2230config PADATA
2231 depends on SMP
2232 bool
2233
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2234config ASN1
2235 tristate
2236 help
2237 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2238 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2239 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2240 functions to call on what tags.
2241
6beb0009 2242source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2244config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2245 bool
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2246
2247# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2248# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2249# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2250# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2251# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2252# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2253# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2254config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2255 def_bool n