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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2config CC_VERSION_TEXT
3 string
4 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
5 help
6 This is used in unclear ways:
7
8 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
9 The 'default' property references the environment variable,
10 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
11 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
12
f9c8bc46 13 - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated
ce6ed1c4 14 include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment
0e0345b7 15 line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the
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16 auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig
17 will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt.
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a4353898 19config CC_IS_GCC
aec6c60a 20 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC)
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21
22config GCC_VERSION
23 int
aec6c60a 24 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC
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25 default 0
26
469cb737 27config CC_IS_CLANG
aec6c60a 28 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang)
b744b43f 29
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30config CLANG_VERSION
31 int
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32 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG
33 default 0
469cb737 34
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35config AS_IS_GNU
36 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU)
37
38config AS_IS_LLVM
39 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM)
40
41config AS_VERSION
42 int
43 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler
44 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM
45 default $(as-version)
46
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47config LD_IS_BFD
48 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD)
49
50config LD_VERSION
51 int
52 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD
53 default 0
54
55config LD_IS_LLD
56 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD)
469cb737 57
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58config LLD_VERSION
59 int
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60 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD
61 default 0
d5750cd3 62
1a927fd3 63config CC_CAN_LINK
9371f86e 64 bool
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65 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
66 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
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67
68config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
69 bool
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70 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
71 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
1a927fd3 72
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73config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
74 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
75
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76config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
77 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
78 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
79
5cf896fb 80config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
2d122942 81 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
5cf896fb 82
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83config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
84 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
85
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86config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
87 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror)
88
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89config CONSTRUCTORS
90 bool
b99b87f7 91
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92config IRQ_WORK
93 bool
e360adbe 94
10916706 95config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
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96 bool
97
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98config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
99 bool
100 help
101 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
102 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
103 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
104
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105 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
106 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
107
ff0cfc66 108menu "General setup"
1da177e4 109
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110config BROKEN
111 bool
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112
113config BROKEN_ON_SMP
114 bool
115 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
116 default y
117
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118config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
119 int
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120 default 32 if !UML
121 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 122 help
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123 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
124 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 125
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126config COMPILE_TEST
127 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
ea29b20a 128 depends on HAS_IOMEM
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129 help
130 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
131 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
132 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
133 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
134 drivers to compile-test them.
135
136 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
137 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
138 drivers to be distributed.
139
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140config UAPI_HEADER_TEST
141 bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
fcbb8461 142 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
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143 help
144 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
145 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
146
147 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
148 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
149
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150config LOCALVERSION
151 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
152 help
153 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
154 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
155 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
156 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
157 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
158 be a maximum of 64 characters.
159
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160config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
161 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
162 default y
ac3339ba 163 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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164 help
165 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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166 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
167 top of tree revision.
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168
169 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 170 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 171 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 172 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 173
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174 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
175 by running the command:
176
177 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
178
179 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
aaebf433 180
9afb719e 181config BUILD_SALT
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182 string "Build ID Salt"
183 default ""
184 help
185 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
186 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
187 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
188 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
9afb719e 189
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190config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
191 bool
192
193config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
194 bool
195
196config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
197 bool
198
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199config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
200 bool
201
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202config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
203 bool
204
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205config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
206 bool
207
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208config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
209 bool
210
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211config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
212 bool
213
30d65dbf 214choice
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215 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
216 default KERNEL_GZIP
48f7ddf7 217 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 218 help
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219 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
220 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
221 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
222 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
223 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
224
225 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
226 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
227 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
228 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
229
230 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
231 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
232 size matters less.
233
234 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
235
236config KERNEL_GZIP
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237 bool "Gzip"
238 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
239 help
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240 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
241 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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242
243config KERNEL_BZIP2
244 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 245 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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246 help
247 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 248 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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249 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
250 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
251 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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252
253config KERNEL_LZMA
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254 bool "LZMA"
255 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
256 help
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257 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
258 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
259 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
30d65dbf 260
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261config KERNEL_XZ
262 bool "XZ"
263 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
264 help
265 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
266 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
267 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
268 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
269 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
270 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
271
272 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
273 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
274 and LZO. Compression is slow.
275
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276config KERNEL_LZO
277 bool "LZO"
278 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
279 help
0a4dd35c 280 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 281 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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282 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
283
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284config KERNEL_LZ4
285 bool "LZ4"
286 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
287 help
288 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
289 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
290 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
291
292 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
293 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
294 faster than LZO.
295
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296config KERNEL_ZSTD
297 bool "ZSTD"
298 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
299 help
300 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
301 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
302 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
303 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
304 line tool is required for compression.
305
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306config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
307 bool "None"
308 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
309 help
310 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
311 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
312 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
313 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
314 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
315
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316endchoice
317
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318config DEFAULT_INIT
319 string "Default init path"
320 default ""
321 help
322 This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
323 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
324 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
325 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
326 the fallback list when init= is not passed.
327
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328config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
329 string "Default hostname"
330 default "(none)"
331 help
332 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
333 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
334 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
335 system more usable with less configuration.
336
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337#
338# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
339# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
340#
341config ARCH_NO_SWAP
342 bool
343
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344config SWAP
345 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 346 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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347 default y
348 help
349 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 350 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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351 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
352 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
353
354config SYSVIPC
355 bool "System V IPC"
a7f7f624 356 help
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357 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
358 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
359 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
360 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
361 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
362 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
363 you'll need to say Y here.
364
365 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
366 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
367 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
368
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369config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
370 bool
371 depends on SYSVIPC
372 depends on SYSCTL
373 default y
374
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375config POSIX_MQUEUE
376 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 377 depends on NET
a7f7f624 378 help
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379 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
380 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
381 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
382 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 383 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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384
385 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
386 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
387 operations on message queues.
388
389 If unsure, say Y.
390
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391config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
392 bool
393 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
394 depends on SYSCTL
395 default y
396
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397config WATCH_QUEUE
398 bool "General notification queue"
399 default n
400 help
401
402 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
403 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction
404 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
405 notifications.
406
407 See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
408
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409config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
410 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
411 depends on MMU
412 default y
413 help
414 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
415 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 416 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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417 See the man page for more details.
418
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419config USELIB
420 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 421 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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422 help
423 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
424 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
425 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
426 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
427 running glibc can safely disable this.
428
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429config AUDIT
430 bool "Auditing support"
431 depends on NET
432 help
433 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
434 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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435 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
436 on architectures which support it.
391dc69c 437
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438config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
439 bool
440
391dc69c 441config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 442 def_bool y
7a017721 443 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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444 select FSNOTIFY
445
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446source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
447source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
b24abcff 448source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig"
87a4c375 449source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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451menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
452
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453config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
454 bool
455
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456choice
457 prompt "Cputime accounting"
458 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 459 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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460
461# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
462config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
463 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 464 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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465 help
466 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
467 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
468 granularity.
469
470 If unsure, say Y.
471
abf917cd 472config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 473 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 474 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 475 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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476 help
477 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
478 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
479 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
480 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
481 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
482 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
483 systems.
484
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485config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
486 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 487 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 488 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
041a1574 489 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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490 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
491 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
492 help
493 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
494 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
495 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
496 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
497 overhead.
498
499 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
500 dynticks subsystem development.
501
502 If unsure, say N.
503
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505
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506config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
507 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 508 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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509 help
510 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
511 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
512 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
513 small performance impact.
514
515 If in doubt, say N here.
516
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517config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
518 def_bool y
519 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
520 depends on SMP
521
76504793 522config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
98eb401d 523 bool
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524 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
525 default y if ARM64
76504793 526 depends on SMP
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527 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
528 help
529 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
530 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
531 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
532 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
533 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
534
535 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
536 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
537
538 This requires the architecture to implement
432900f8 539 arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
76504793 540
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541config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
542 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 543 depends on MULTIUSER
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544 help
545 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
546 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
547 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
548 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
549 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
550 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
551 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
552 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
553 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
554
555config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
556 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
557 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
558 default n
559 help
560 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
561 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 562 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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563 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
564 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 565 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 567config TASKSTATS
19c92399 568 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 569 depends on NET
2813893f 570 depends on MULTIUSER
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571 default n
572 help
573 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
574 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
575 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
576 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
577 space on task exit.
578
579 Say N if unsure.
580
ca74e92b 581config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 582 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 583 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 584 select SCHED_INFO
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585 help
586 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
587 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
588 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
589 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
590
591 Say N if unsure.
592
18f705f4 593config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 594 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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595 depends on TASKSTATS
596 help
597 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
598 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
599
600 Say N if unsure.
601
602config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 603 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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604 depends on TASK_XACCT
605 help
606 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
607 task has caused.
608
609 Say N if unsure.
610
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611config PSI
612 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
613 help
614 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
615 and IO capacity are in the system.
616
617 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
618 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
619 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
620 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
621
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623 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
624 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
625
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628 Say N if unsure.
629
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630config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
631 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
632 default n
633 depends on PSI
634 help
635 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
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636 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
637 kernel commandline during boot.
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639 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
640 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
641 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
642 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
643 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
644
645 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
646 used for, say Y.
647
648 Say N if unsure.
649
391dc69c 650endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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653 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 654 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 655 default y
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656 help
657 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
658 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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660 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
661
662 Say Y if unsure.
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0af92d46 664source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
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666config BUILD_BIN2C
667 bool
668 default n
669
1da177e4 670config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 671 tristate "Kernel .config support"
a7f7f624 672 help
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673 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
674 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
675 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
676 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
677 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
678 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
679 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
680 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
681
682config IKCONFIG_PROC
683 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
684 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
a7f7f624 685 help
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686 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
687 through /proc/config.gz.
688
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689config IKHEADERS
690 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
691 depends on SYSFS
692 help
693 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
694 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
695 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called
696 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
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699 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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700 range 12 25 if !H8300
701 range 12 19 if H8300
f17a32e9 702 default 17
361e9dfb 703 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 704 help
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706 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
707 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
708 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
709
f17a32e9 710 Examples:
23b2899f 711 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 712 16 => 64 KB
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714 14 => 16 KB
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716 12 => 4 KB
717
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718config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
719 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 720 depends on SMP
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721 range 0 21
722 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
723 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 724 depends on PRINTK
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725 help
726 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
727 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
728 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
729 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
730 e.g. backtraces.
731
732 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
733 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
734 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
735 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
736 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
0f7636e1 737 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
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739 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
740 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
741
742 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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744 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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746 Examples shift values and their meaning:
747 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
748 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
749 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
750 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
751 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
752 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
753
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755 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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757 default 13
f92bac3b 758 depends on PRINTK
427934b8 759 help
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760 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
761 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
762 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
763 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
764 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
427934b8 765
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768 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
769
770 Examples:
771 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
772 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
773 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
774 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
775 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
776 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
777
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779# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
780#
781config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
782 bool
783
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785 bool
786
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788
789config UCLAMP_TASK
790 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
791 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
792 help
793 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
794 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
795
796 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
797 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
798 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
799 defines the minimum frequency it should use.
800
801 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
802 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
803 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
804
805 If in doubt, say N.
806
807config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
808 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
809 range 5 20
810 default 5
811 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
812 help
813 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
814 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
815 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
816 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
817
818 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
819 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
820 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
821 effective value to 25%.
822 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
823 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
824 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
825 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
826 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
827 that bucket.
828
829 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
830 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
831 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
832 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
833 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
834 precision.
835
836 If in doubt, use the default value.
837
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839
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841# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
842# balancing logic:
843#
844config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
845 bool
846
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848# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
849# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
850# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
851# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
852# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
853# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
854config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
855 bool
856
c12d3362 857config CC_HAS_INT128
3a7c7331 858 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
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861# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
862#
863config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
864 bool
865
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867# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
868#
869config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
870 bool
871
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873 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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874 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
875 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
876 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
877 help
878 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
879 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 880 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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882 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
883
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884config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
885 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
886 default y
887 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
888 help
889 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
890 machine.
891
23964d2d 892menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 893 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 894 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 895 help
23964d2d 896 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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897 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
898 controls or device isolation.
899 See
d6a3b247 900 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS)
da82c92f 901 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 902 and resource control)
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904 Say N if unsure.
905
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907
3e32cb2e 908config PAGE_COUNTER
e8cf4e9c 909 bool
3e32cb2e 910
c255a458 911config MEMCG
a0166ec4 912 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 913 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 914 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 915 help
a0166ec4 916 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 917
c255a458 918config MEMCG_SWAP
2d1c4980 919 bool
c255a458 920 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
a42c390c 921 default y
c077719b 922
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924 bool
925 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
926 default y
927
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929 bool "IO controller"
930 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 931 default n
a7f7f624 932 help
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933 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
934 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
935 policies.
2bc64a20 936
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938 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
939 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
940 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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942 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
943 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
944 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7baf2199 945 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
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947
da82c92f 948 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
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951 bool
952 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
953 default y
e5d1367f 954
7c941438 955menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 956 bool "CPU controller"
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957 default n
958 help
959 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
960 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
961 tasks.
962
963if CGROUP_SCHED
964config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
965 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
966 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
967 default CGROUP_SCHED
968
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970 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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971 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
972 default n
973 help
974 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
975 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
976 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
977 restriction.
d6a3b247 978 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
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981 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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982 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
983 default n
984 help
985 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 986 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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988 realtime bandwidth for them.
d6a3b247 989 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
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991endif #CGROUP_SCHED
992
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994 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
995 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
996 depends on UCLAMP_TASK
997 default n
998 help
999 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
1000 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
1001
1002 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
1003 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
1004 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
1005 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
1006 frequency a task will always use.
1007
1008 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
1009 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
1010 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
1011 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
1012
1013 If in doubt, say N.
1014
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1016 bool "PIDs controller"
1017 help
1018 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1019 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1020 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1021 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1022 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1023 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1024 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1026 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
98076833 1027 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
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1029 attach to a cgroup.
1030
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1032 bool "RDMA controller"
1033 help
1034 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1035 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1036 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1037 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1038 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1039 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1040
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1042 bool "Freezer controller"
1043 help
1044 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1045 cgroup.
1046
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1048 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1049
1050 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1051
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1053 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1054 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1055 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1056 default n
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1058 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1059 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1060 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1061 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1062 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1063 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1064 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1065 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1066 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 1067
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1069 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 1070 depends on SMP
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1072 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1073 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1074 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1075 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1076
6bf024e6 1077 Say N if unsure.
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1080 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1081 depends on CPUSETS
1082 default y
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1085 bool "Device controller"
1086 help
1087 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1088 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1089
1090config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1091 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1092 help
1093 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1094 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1095
1096config CGROUP_PERF
1097 bool "Perf controller"
1098 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1099 help
1100 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1101 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1103 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
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1105 Say N if unsure.
1106
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1108 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1110 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1112 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1113 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1114
1115 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1116 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1117 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1118 inet sockets.
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1121 bool "Misc resource controller"
1122 default n
1123 help
1124 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host.
1125
1126 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system
1127 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller
1128 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process
1129 attached to a cgroup hierarchy.
1130
1131 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in
1132 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
1133
6bf024e6 1134config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 1135 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 1136 default n
23b0be48 1137 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1139 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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1141 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
1142 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 1143
6bf024e6 1144 Say N.
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1147 bool
1148 default n
1149
23964d2d 1150endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 1152menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1153 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1154 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1155 default !EXPERT
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1157 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1158 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1159 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1160 different namespaces.
1161
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1165 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1166 default y
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1168 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1169 uname() system call
1170
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1172 bool "TIME namespace"
660fd04f 1173 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
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1174 default y
1175 help
1176 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1177 The time will keep going with the same pace.
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1180 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1181 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1182 default y
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1184 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1185 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1186
aee16ce7 1187config USER_NS
19c92399 1188 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1189 default n
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1191 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1192 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1194 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1196 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1197 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1200
74bd59bb 1201config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1202 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1203 default y
74bd59bb 1204 help
12d2b8f9 1205 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1206 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1208
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1210 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1211 depends on NET
17a6d441 1212 default y
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1214 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1215 of the network stack.
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1218
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1220 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
1221 select PROC_CHILDREN
bfe3911a 1222 select KCMP
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1223 default n
1224 help
1225 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1226 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1227 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1228 entries.
1229
1230 If unsure, say N here.
1231
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1232config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1233 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1234 select CGROUPS
1235 select CGROUP_SCHED
1236 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1237 help
1238 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1239 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1240 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1241 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1242 upon task session.
1243
7af37bec 1244config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1245 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1246 depends on SYSFS
1247 default n
1248 help
1249 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1250 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1251 /sys/block/.
1252
1253 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1254 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1255
1256 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1257 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1258 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1259
1260 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1261 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1262 option enabled.
1263
1264 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1265 need to say Y here.
1266
1267config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1268 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1269 default n
1270 depends on SYSFS
1271 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1272 help
1273 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1274
1275 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1276 option.
1277
1278 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1279 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1280 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1281
1282config RELAY
1283 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1284 select IRQ_WORK
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1285 help
1286 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1287 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1288 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1289 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1290 user space.
1291
1292 If unsure, say N.
1293
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1294config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1295 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1296 help
1297 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1298 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1299 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1300 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1301 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1302
1303 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1304 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1305 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1306
1307 If unsure say Y.
1308
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1309if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1310
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1311source "usr/Kconfig"
1312
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1313endif
1314
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1315config BOOT_CONFIG
1316 bool "Boot config support"
2910b5aa 1317 select BLK_DEV_INITRD
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1318 help
1319 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
1320 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
0947db01 1321 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
85c46b78 1322 with checksum, size and magic word.
0947db01 1323 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
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1324
1325 If unsure, say Y.
1326
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1327choice
1328 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1329 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1330
1331config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
15f5db60 1332 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
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1333 help
1334 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1335 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1336 helpful compile-time warnings.
1337
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1338config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
1339 bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
1340 depends on ARC
c45b4f1f 1341 help
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1342 Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
1343 the kernel yet more for performance.
c45b4f1f 1344
c45b4f1f 1345config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
15f5db60 1346 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
c45b4f1f 1347 help
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1348 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1349 in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1350
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1351endchoice
1352
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1353config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1354 bool
1355 help
1356 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1357 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1358 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1359 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1360 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1361 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1362
1363config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1364 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1365 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1366 depends on EXPERT
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1367 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1368 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1369 help
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1370 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1371 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1372 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1373
1374 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1375 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1376 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1377 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1378 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1379 own risk.
1380
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1381config LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1382 def_bool y
1383 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
d5750cd3 1384 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
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1385 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
1386
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1387config SYSCTL
1388 bool
1389
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1390config HAVE_UID16
1391 bool
1392
1393config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1394 bool
1395 help
1396 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1397
1398config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1399 bool
1400 help
1401 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1402 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1403 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1404
1405config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1406 bool
1407 help
1408 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1409 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1410 the unaligned access emulation.
1411 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1412
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1413config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1414 bool
1415
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1416# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1417config BPF
1418 bool
1419
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1420menuconfig EXPERT
1421 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1422 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1423 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1424 help
1425 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
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1426 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1427 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1428 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1da177e4 1429
ae81f9e3 1430config UID16
6a108a14 1431 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1432 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1433 default y
1434 help
1435 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1436
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1437config MULTIUSER
1438 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1439 default y
1440 help
1441 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1442 capabilities.
1443
1444 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1445 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1446 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1447 setgid, and capset.
1448
1449 If unsure, say Y here.
1450
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1451config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1452 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1453 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
a7f7f624 1454 help
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1455 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1456 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1457 architectures.
1458
1459 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1460
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1461config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1462 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1463 default y
a7f7f624 1464 help
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1465 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1466 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1467 compatibility with some systems.
1468
1469 If unsure say Y here.
1470
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1471config FHANDLE
1472 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1473 select EXPORTFS
1474 default y
1475 help
1476 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1477 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1478 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1479 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1480 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1481 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1482 syscalls.
1483
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1484config POSIX_TIMERS
1485 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1486 default y
1487 help
1488 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1489 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1490 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1491
1492 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1493 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1494 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1495 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1496 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1497 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1498
1499 If unsure say y.
1500
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1501config PRINTK
1502 default y
6a108a14 1503 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1504 select IRQ_WORK
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1505 help
1506 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1507 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1508 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1509 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1510 strongly discouraged.
1511
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1512config PRINTK_NMI
1513 def_bool y
1514 depends on PRINTK
1515 depends on HAVE_NMI
1516
c8538a7a 1517config BUG
6a108a14 1518 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1519 default y
1520 help
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1521 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1522 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1523 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1524 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1525 Just say Y.
c8538a7a 1526
708e9a79 1527config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1528 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1529 default y
6a108a14 1530 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1531 help
1532 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1533
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e5e1d3cb 1535config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1536 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1537 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1538 select I8253_LOCK
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1539 default y
1540 help
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1541 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1542 support, saving some memory.
e5e1d3cb 1543
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1544config BASE_FULL
1545 default y
6a108a14 1546 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1547 help
1548 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1549 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1550 but may reduce performance.
1551
1552config FUTEX
6a108a14 1553 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1554 default y
bc2eecd7 1555 imply RT_MUTEXES
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LT
1556 help
1557 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1558 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1559 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1560
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1561config FUTEX_PI
1562 bool
1563 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1564 default y
1565
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1566config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1567 bool
62b4d204 1568 depends on FUTEX
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1569 help
1570 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1571 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1572 checks.
1573
1da177e4 1574config EPOLL
6a108a14 1575 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
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LT
1576 default y
1577 help
1578 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1579 support for epoll family of system calls.
1580
fba2afaa 1581config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1582 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1583 default y
1584 help
1585 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1586 on a file descriptor.
1587
1588 If unsure, say Y.
1589
b215e283 1590config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1591 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1592 default y
1593 help
1594 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1595 events on a file descriptor.
1596
1597 If unsure, say Y.
1598
e1ad7468 1599config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1600 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
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1601 default y
1602 help
1603 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1604 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1605
1606 If unsure, say Y.
1607
1da177e4 1608config SHMEM
6a108a14 1609 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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LT
1610 default y
1611 depends on MMU
1612 help
1613 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1614 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1615 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1616 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1617 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1618
ebf3f09c 1619config AIO
6a108a14 1620 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1621 default y
1622 help
1623 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1624 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1625 this option saves about 7k.
1626
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1627config IO_URING
1628 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
561fb04a 1629 select IO_WQ
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1630 default y
1631 help
1632 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1633 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1634 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1635
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1636config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1637 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1638 default y
1639 help
1640 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1641 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1642 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1643 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1644 space.
1645
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1646config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
1647 bool
1648 help
1649 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
1650
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1651config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
1652 bool
1653 help
1654 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support
1655
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1656config MEMBARRIER
1657 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1658 default y
1659 help
1660 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1661 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1662 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1663 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1664 compiler barrier.
1665
1666 If unsure, say Y.
1667
d1b069f5 1668config KALLSYMS
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1669 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1670 default y
1671 help
1672 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1673 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1674 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
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1675
1676config KALLSYMS_ALL
1677 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1679 help
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KK
1680 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1681 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1682 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1683 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1684 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
d1b069f5 1685
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1686 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1687 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1688 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1689 something like this).
d1b069f5 1690
e8cf4e9c 1691 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1692
1693config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1694 bool
1695 depends on KALLSYMS
1696 default X86_64 && SMP
1697
1698config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1699 bool
1700 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1701 default !IA64
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1702 help
1703 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1704 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1705 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1706 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1707 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1708 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1709 address encountered in the image.
1710
1711 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1712 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1713 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1714 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1715
1716# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1717
1718# syscall, maps, verifier
fc611f47 1719
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1720config USERFAULTFD
1721 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
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1722 depends on MMU
1723 help
1724 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1725 handle page faults in userland.
1726
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1727config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1728 bool
1729
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1730config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1731 bool
1732
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1733config KCMP
1734 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
1735 help
1736 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
1737 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
1738 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
1739 memory space.
1740
1741 If unsure, say N.
1742
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1743config RSEQ
1744 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1745 default y
1746 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1747 select MEMBARRIER
1748 help
1749 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1750 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1751 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1752 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1753 per-CPU data.
1754
1755 If unsure, say Y.
1756
1757config DEBUG_RSEQ
1758 default n
1759 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1760 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1761 help
1762 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1763
1764 If unsure, say N.
1765
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1766config EMBEDDED
1767 bool "Embedded system"
1768 select EXPERT
1769 help
1770 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1771 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1772 for configuration.
1773
cdd6c482 1774config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1775 bool
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1776 help
1777 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1778
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1779config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1780 bool
1781 help
1782 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1783
ad90a3de 1784config PC104
424529fb 1785 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1786 help
1787 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1788 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1789 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1790
57c0c15b 1791menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1792
cdd6c482 1793config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1794 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1795 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1796 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
e360adbe 1797 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1798 select SRCU
0793a61d 1799 help
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1800 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1801 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1802
dd77038d 1803 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1804 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1805
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1806 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1807 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1808 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1809 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1810 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1811 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1812 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1813
57c0c15b 1814 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1815 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1816 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1817 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1818 capabilities on top of those.
1819
1820 Say Y if unsure.
1821
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1822config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1823 default n
1824 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1825 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1826 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1827 help
e8cf4e9c 1828 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
906010b2 1829
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1830 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1831 that don't require it.
906010b2 1832
e8cf4e9c 1833 Say N if unsure.
906010b2 1834
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1836
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1837config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1838 default y
6a108a14 1839 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1840 help
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1841 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1842 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1843 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1844 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1846config SLUB_DEBUG
1847 default y
6a108a14 1848 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1849 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
78869146 1850 select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1851 help
1852 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1853 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1854 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1855 no support for cache validation etc.
1856
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1857config COMPAT_BRK
1858 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1859 default y
1860 help
1861 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1862 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1863 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1864 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1865 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1866
1867 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1868
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1870 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1871 default SLUB
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1872 help
1873 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1874
1875config SLAB
1876 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1877 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1878 help
1879 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1880 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1881 per cpu and per node queues.
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1883config SLUB
81819f0f 1884 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1885 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1886 help
1887 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1888 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1889 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1890 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1891 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1892 a slab allocator.
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1893
1894config SLOB
6a108a14 1895 depends on EXPERT
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1896 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1897 help
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1898 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1899 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1900 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1903
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1904config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1905 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1906 default y
1907 help
1908 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1909 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1910 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1911 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1912 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1913 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1914 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1915 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1916 command line.
1917
c7ce4f60 1918config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
3404be67 1919 bool "Randomize slab freelist"
210e7a43 1920 depends on SLAB || SLUB
c7ce4f60 1921 help
210e7a43 1922 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1923 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1924 allocator against heap overflows.
1925
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1926config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1927 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
3404be67 1928 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1929 help
1930 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1931 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
92bae787 1932 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
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1933 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
1934 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
1935 CONFIG_SLUB.
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1937config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1938 bool "Page allocator randomization"
1939 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1940 help
1941 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1942 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1943 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1944 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1945 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1946 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1947 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1948 default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1949 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1950 benefits on x86.
1951
1952 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1953 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1954 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1955 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1956 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1957 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1958
1959 Say Y if unsure.
1960
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1961config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1962 default y
b39ffbf8 1963 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1964 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1965 help
92bae787 1966 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
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1967 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1968 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1969 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1970 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1971
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1972config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1973 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1974 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1975 default n
1976 help
1977 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1978 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1979 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1980 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1981 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1982 then the flag will be ignored.
1983
1984 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1985 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1986
1987 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1988 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1989 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1990 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1991
dd19d293 1992 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
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1994config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1995 def_bool n
1996 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1997 select KEYS
1998 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1999 select CRYPTO_RSA
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2000 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2001 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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2002 select ASN1
2003 select OID_REGISTRY
2004 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2005 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 2006 help
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2007 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2008 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
2009 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2010 verification.
82c04ff8 2011
125e5645 2012config PROFILING
b309a294 2013 bool "Profiling support"
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2014 help
2015 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
f8408264 2016 by profilers.
125e5645 2017
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2018#
2019# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
2020# dynamically changed for a probe function.
2021#
97e1c18e 2022config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 2023 bool
97e1c18e 2024
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2025endmenu # General setup
2026
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2027source "arch/Kconfig"
2028
ae81f9e3 2029config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 2030 bool
ae81f9e3 2031
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2032config BASE_SMALL
2033 int
2034 default 0 if BASE_FULL
2035 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
2036
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2037config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2038 def_bool n
2039 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2040
66da5733 2041menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 2042 bool "Enable loadable module support"
6dd85ff1 2043 modules
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2044 help
2045 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
2046 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
2047 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
2048 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
2049 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
2050 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
2051 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
2052 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
2053 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
2054
2055 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
2056 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
2057 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
2058 this).
2059
2060 If unsure, say Y.
2061
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2062if MODULES
2063
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2064config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2065 bool "Forced module loading"
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2066 default n
2067 help
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2068 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
2069 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
2070 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 2071
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2072config MODULE_UNLOAD
2073 bool "Module unloading"
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2074 help
2075 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2076 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2077 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2078 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2079
2080config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2081 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2082 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2083 help
2084 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2085 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2086 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2087 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2088 If unsure, say N.
2089
1da177e4 2090config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2091 bool "Module versioning support"
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2092 help
2093 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2094 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2095 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2096 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2097 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2098 unsure, say N.
2099
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2100config ASM_MODVERSIONS
2101 bool
2102 default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
2103 help
2104 This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
2105 assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
2106 supports it.
2107
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2108config MODULE_REL_CRCS
2109 bool
2110 depends on MODVERSIONS
2111
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2112config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2113 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2114 help
2115 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2116 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2117 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2118 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2119 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2120 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2121 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2122
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2123config MODULE_SIG
2124 bool "Module signature verification"
c8424e77 2125 select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
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2126 help
2127 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2128 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 2129 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
106a4ee2 2130
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2131 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2132 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2133 library.
2134
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2135 You should enable this option if you wish to use either
2136 CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
2137 another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
2138 of the lockdown policy.
2139
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2140 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2141 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2142 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2143 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2144
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2145config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2146 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2147 depends on MODULE_SIG
2148 help
2149 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2150 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
ea0b6dcf 2151
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2152config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2153 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2154 default y
0165f4ca 2155 depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
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2156 help
2157 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2158 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2159
2160comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2161 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2162
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2163choice
2164 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
0165f4ca 2165 depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
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2166 help
2167 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2168 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2169 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2170 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2171 the signature on that module.
2172
2173config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2174 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2175 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2176
2177config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2178 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2179 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2180
2181config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2182 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2183 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2184
2185config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2186 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2187 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2188
2189config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2190 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2191 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2192
2193endchoice
2194
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2195config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2196 string
0165f4ca 2197 depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
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2198 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2199 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2200 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2201 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2202 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2203
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2204choice
2205 prompt "Module compression mode"
beb50df3 2206 help
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2207 This option allows you to choose the algorithm which will be used to
2208 compress modules when 'make modules_install' is run. (or, you can
2209 choose to not compress modules at all.)
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2211 External modules will also be compressed in the same way during the
2212 installation.
beb50df3 2213
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2214 For modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient to
2215 compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
beb50df3 2216
d4bbe942 2217 This is fully compatible with signed modules.
beb50df3 2218
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2219 Please note that the tool used to load modules needs to support the
2220 corresponding algorithm. module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod
c3d7ef37 2221 MAY support gzip, xz and zstd.
beb50df3 2222
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2223 Your build system needs to provide the appropriate compression tool
2224 to compress the modules.
b6c09b51 2225
d4bbe942 2226 If in doubt, select 'None'.
beb50df3 2227
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2228config MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE
2229 bool "None"
beb50df3 2230 help
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2231 Do not compress modules. The installed modules are suffixed
2232 with .ko.
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2233
2234config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2235 bool "GZIP"
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2236 help
2237 Compress modules with GZIP. The installed modules are suffixed
2238 with .ko.gz.
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2239
2240config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2241 bool "XZ"
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2242 help
2243 Compress modules with XZ. The installed modules are suffixed
2244 with .ko.xz.
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2246config MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
2247 bool "ZSTD"
2248 help
2249 Compress modules with ZSTD. The installed modules are suffixed
2250 with .ko.zst.
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2251
2252endchoice
2253
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2254config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
2255 bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
2256 help
2257 Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
2258 a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
2259 namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
2260 There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
2261 but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
2262 users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
2263 requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
2264
2265 If unsure, say N.
2266
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2267config MODPROBE_PATH
2268 string "Path to modprobe binary"
2269 default "/sbin/modprobe"
2270 help
2271 When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling
2272 the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to
2273 set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed
2274 at runtime via the sysctl file
2275 /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string
2276 removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but
2277 userspace can still load modules explicitly).
2278
dbacb0ef 2279config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
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2280 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT
2281 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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2282 help
2283 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2284 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2285 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2286 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2287
2288 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2289 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2290 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2291 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2292
f1cb637e 2293 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2295config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
2296 string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
2297 depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2298 help
2299 By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
2300 build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
2301
2302 UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
2303 exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
2304 set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
2305 one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
2306 source tree.
2307
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2309
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2310config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2311 def_bool y
cf68fffb 2312 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG
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2314config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2315 bool
2316 help
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2317 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2318 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2319 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2320 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2321 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2323source "block/Kconfig"
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2325config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2326 bool
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2328config PADATA
2329 depends on SMP
2330 bool
2331
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2332config ASN1
2333 tristate
2334 help
2335 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2336 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2337 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2338 functions to call on what tags.
2339
6beb0009 2340source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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2342config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
2343 bool
2344
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2345config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2346 bool
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2347
2348# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2349# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
2350# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2351# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2352# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2353# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2354# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2355config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
2356 def_bool n