From 76cb841cb886eef6b3bee341a2266c76578724ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 03:02:30 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4.19.249. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- init/Kconfig | 2038 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 2038 insertions(+) create mode 100644 init/Kconfig (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..15c02e15d --- /dev/null +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,2038 @@ +config DEFCONFIG_LIST + string + depends on !UML + option defconfig_list + default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" + default "/etc/kernel-config" + default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" + default ARCH_DEFCONFIG + default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" + +config CC_IS_GCC + def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) + +config GCC_VERSION + int + default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC + default 0 + +config CC_IS_CLANG + def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) + +config LD_IS_LLD + def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) + +config CLANG_VERSION + int + default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) + +config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO + def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) + +config CONSTRUCTORS + bool + depends on !UML + +config IRQ_WORK + bool + +config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT + bool + +config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK + bool + help + Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To + make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields + except flags and fix any runtime bugs. + + One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() + and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). + +menu "General setup" + +config BROKEN + bool + +config BROKEN_ON_SMP + bool + depends on BROKEN || !SMP + default y + +config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT + int + default 32 if !UML + default 128 if UML + help + Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment + variables passed to init from the kernel command line. + +config COMPILE_TEST + bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" + depends on HAS_IOMEM + help + Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are + intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even + when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), + developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such + drivers to compile-test them. + + If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y + here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless + drivers to be distributed. + +config LOCALVERSION + string "Local version - append to kernel release" + help + Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. + This will show up when you type uname, for example. + The string you set here will be appended after the contents of + any files with a filename matching localversion* in your + object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can + be a maximum of 64 characters. + +config LOCALVERSION_AUTO + bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" + default y + depends on !COMPILE_TEST + help + This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a + release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current + top of tree revision. + + A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion + if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be + appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value + set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. + + (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced + by running the command: + + $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD + + which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) + +config BUILD_SALT + string "Build ID Salt" + default "" + help + The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting + this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. + This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the + build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. + +config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + bool + +choice + prompt "Kernel compression mode" + default KERNEL_GZIP + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + help + The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. + Several compression algorithms are available, which differ + in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. + Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. + Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. + + If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed + kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) . (An older + version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was + supplied by Christian Ludwig) + + High compression options are mostly useful for users, who + are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram + size matters less. + + If in doubt, select 'gzip' + +config KERNEL_GZIP + bool "Gzip" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + help + The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance + between compression ratio and decompression speed. + +config KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool "Bzip2" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + help + Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. + Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel + size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. + Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you + will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. + +config KERNEL_LZMA + bool "LZMA" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help + This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed + is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. + The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. + +config KERNEL_XZ + bool "XZ" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + help + XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific + BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable + code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in + comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ + filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ + will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. + + The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression + speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip + and LZO. Compression is slow. + +config KERNEL_LZO + bool "LZO" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + help + Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel + size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed + (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. + +config KERNEL_LZ4 + bool "LZ4" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + help + LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. + A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at + . + + Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel + is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is + faster than LZO. + +config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + bool "None" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + help + Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what + you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation + environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully + slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor + and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. + +endchoice + +config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME + string "Default hostname" + default "(none)" + help + This option determines the default system hostname before userspace + calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, + but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal + system more usable with less configuration. + +# +# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can +# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. +# +config ARCH_NO_SWAP + bool + +config SWAP + bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" + depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP + default y + help + This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support + for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are + used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present + in your computer. If unsure say Y. + +config SYSVIPC + bool "System V IPC" + ---help--- + Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and + system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and + exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, + and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if + you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the + DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from ), + you'll need to say Y here. + + You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in + section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from + . + +config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL + bool + depends on SYSVIPC + depends on SYSCTL + default y + +config POSIX_MQUEUE + bool "POSIX Message Queues" + depends on NET + ---help--- + POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message + queues every message has a priority which decides about succession + of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run + programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message + queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. + + POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' + and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem + operations on message queues. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL + bool + depends on POSIX_MQUEUE + depends on SYSCTL + default y + +config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH + bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" + depends on MMU + default y + help + Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and + process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges + to directly read from or write to another process' address space. + See the man page for more details. + +config USELIB + bool "uselib syscall" + def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION + help + This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the + dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this + system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or + earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems + running glibc can safely disable this. + +config AUDIT + bool "Auditing support" + depends on NET + help + Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another + kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for + logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included + on architectures which support it. + +config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL + bool + +config AUDITSYSCALL + def_bool y + depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL + +config AUDIT_WATCH + def_bool y + depends on AUDITSYSCALL + select FSNOTIFY + +config AUDIT_TREE + def_bool y + depends on AUDITSYSCALL + select FSNOTIFY + +source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" +source "kernel/time/Kconfig" +source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" + +menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" + +config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING + bool + +choice + prompt "Cputime accounting" + default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 + default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 + +# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting +config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING + bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" + depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL + help + This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains + statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies + granularity. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE + bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" + depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL + select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING + help + Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time + accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each + kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel + between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a + small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, + this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned + systems. + +config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN + bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" + depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING + depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN + select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING + select CONTEXT_TRACKING + help + Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full + dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every + kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. + The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant + overhead. + + For now this is only useful if you are working on the full + dynticks subsystem development. + + If unsure, say N. + +endchoice + +config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING + bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" + depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE + help + Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time + accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each + transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a + small performance impact. + + If in doubt, say N here. + +config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ + def_bool y + depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING + depends on SMP + +config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT + bool "BSD Process Accounting" + depends on MULTIUSER + help + If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the + kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting + information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about + that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The + information includes things such as creation time, owning user, + command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete + list is in the struct acct in ). It is + up to the user level program to do useful things with this + information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. + +config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 + bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" + depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT + default n + help + If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written + in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each + process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible + with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools + for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available + at . + +config TASKSTATS + bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" + depends on NET + depends on MULTIUSER + default n + help + Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the + generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the + statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as + responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user + space on task exit. + + Say N if unsure. + +config TASK_DELAY_ACCT + bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" + depends on TASKSTATS + select SCHED_INFO + help + Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system + resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping + in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities + relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. + + Say N if unsure. + +config TASK_XACCT + bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" + depends on TASKSTATS + help + Collect extended task accounting data and send the data + to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. + + Say N if unsure. + +config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING + bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" + depends on TASK_XACCT + help + Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this + task has caused. + + Say N if unsure. + +endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" + +config CPU_ISOLATION + bool "CPU isolation" + depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST + default y + help + Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by + any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... + Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by + the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. + + Say Y if unsure. + +source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" + +config BUILD_BIN2C + bool + default n + +config IKCONFIG + tristate "Kernel .config support" + select BUILD_BIN2C + ---help--- + This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file + contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation + of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an + on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel + image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as + input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. + It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading + /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). + +config IKCONFIG_PROC + bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" + depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS + ---help--- + This option enables access to the kernel configuration file + through /proc/config.gz. + +config LOG_BUF_SHIFT + int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" + range 12 25 if !H8300 + range 12 19 if H8300 + default 17 + depends on PRINTK + help + Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. + The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config + parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced + by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. + + Examples: + 17 => 128 KB + 16 => 64 KB + 15 => 32 KB + 14 => 16 KB + 13 => 8 KB + 12 => 4 KB + +config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT + int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" + depends on SMP + range 0 21 + default 12 if !BASE_SMALL + default 0 if BASE_SMALL + depends on PRINTK + help + This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size + according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution + of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few + lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, + e.g. backtraces. + + The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and + the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems + with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of + contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring + buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set + so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. + + Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is + used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. + + The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring + hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case + scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. + + Examples shift values and their meaning: + 17 => 128 KB for each CPU + 16 => 64 KB for each CPU + 15 => 32 KB for each CPU + 14 => 16 KB for each CPU + 13 => 8 KB for each CPU + 12 => 4 KB for each CPU + +config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT + int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" + range 10 21 + default 13 + depends on PRINTK + help + Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages + printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would + be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are + copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. + The value defines the size as a power of 2. + + Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when + a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select + 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. + + Examples: + 17 => 128 KB for each CPU + 16 => 64 KB for each CPU + 15 => 32 KB for each CPU + 14 => 16 KB for each CPU + 13 => 8 KB for each CPU + 12 => 4 KB for each CPU + +# +# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: +# +config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK + bool + +config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK + bool + +# +# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler +# balancing logic: +# +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING + bool + +# +# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages +# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture +# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is +# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for +# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush +# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. +config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH + bool + +# +# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound +# +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 + bool + +# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions +# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. +# +config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY + bool + +config NUMA_BALANCING + bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING + depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY + depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION + help + This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. + The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when + it has references to the node the task is running on. + + This system will be inactive on UMA systems. + +config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED + bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" + default y + depends on NUMA_BALANCING + help + If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA + machine. + +menuconfig CGROUPS + bool "Control Group support" + select KERNFS + help + This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for + use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory + controls or device isolation. + See + - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) + - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation + and resource control) + + Say N if unsure. + +if CGROUPS + +config PAGE_COUNTER + bool + +config MEMCG + bool "Memory controller" + select PAGE_COUNTER + select EVENTFD + help + Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. + +config MEMCG_SWAP + bool "Swap controller" + depends on MEMCG && SWAP + help + Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. + +config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED + bool "Swap controller enabled by default" + depends on MEMCG_SWAP + default y + help + Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in + a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels + which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default + and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line + parameter should have this option unselected. + For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should + select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it + then swapaccount=0 does the trick). + +config MEMCG_KMEM + bool + depends on MEMCG && !SLOB + default y + +config BLK_CGROUP + bool "IO controller" + depends on BLOCK + default n + ---help--- + Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common + cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling + policies. + + Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and + control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) + to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in + block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. + + This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. + One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For + enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set + CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set + CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. + + See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. + +config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP + bool "IO controller debugging" + depends on BLK_CGROUP + default n + ---help--- + Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat + files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. + +config CGROUP_WRITEBACK + bool + depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP + default y + +menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED + bool "CPU controller" + default n + help + This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU + bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group + tasks. + +if CGROUP_SCHED +config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" + depends on CGROUP_SCHED + default CGROUP_SCHED + +config CFS_BANDWIDTH + bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" + depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + default n + help + This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for + tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit + set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no + restriction. + See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. + +config RT_GROUP_SCHED + bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" + depends on CGROUP_SCHED + default n + help + This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth + to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to + schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate + realtime bandwidth for them. + See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. + +endif #CGROUP_SCHED + +config CGROUP_PIDS + bool "PIDs controller" + help + Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a + cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the + cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it + is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a + conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a + system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The + PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. + + It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching + to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), + since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to + attach to a cgroup. + +config CGROUP_RDMA + bool "RDMA controller" + help + Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. + It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which + can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. + RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. + Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup + hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. + +config CGROUP_FREEZER + bool "Freezer controller" + help + Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a + cgroup. + + This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory + controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. + + If you're using cgroup2, say N. + +config CGROUP_HUGETLB + bool "HugeTLB controller" + depends on HUGETLB_PAGE + select PAGE_COUNTER + default n + help + Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. + When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. + The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't + support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies + that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access + HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know + beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The + control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means + that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. + +config CPUSETS + bool "Cpuset controller" + depends on SMP + help + This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which + allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and + Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. + This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. + + Say N if unsure. + +config PROC_PID_CPUSET + bool "Include legacy /proc//cpuset file" + depends on CPUSETS + default y + +config CGROUP_DEVICE + bool "Device controller" + help + Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for + devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. + +config CGROUP_CPUACCT + bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" + help + Provides a simple controller for monitoring the + total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. + +config CGROUP_PERF + bool "Perf controller" + depends on PERF_EVENTS + help + This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring + to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the + designated cpu. + + Say N if unsure. + +config CGROUP_BPF + bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" + depends on BPF_SYSCALL + select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA + help + Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) + syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. + + In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type + of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using + BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of + inet sockets. + +config CGROUP_DEBUG + bool "Debug controller" + default n + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + This option enables a simple controller that exports + debugging information about the cgroups framework. This + controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its + interfaces are not stable. + + Say N. + +config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA + bool + default n + +endif # CGROUPS + +menuconfig NAMESPACES + bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT + depends on MULTIUSER + default !EXPERT + help + Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using + the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects + or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in + different namespaces. + +if NAMESPACES + +config UTS_NS + bool "UTS namespace" + default y + help + In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the + uname() system call + +config IPC_NS + bool "IPC namespace" + depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) + default y + help + In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to + different IPC objects in different namespaces. + +config USER_NS + bool "User namespace" + default n + help + This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces + to provide different user info for different servers. + + When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is + recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that + user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount + of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. + + If unsure, say N. + +config PID_NS + bool "PID Namespaces" + default y + help + Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple + processes with the same pid as long as they are in different + pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. + +config NET_NS + bool "Network namespace" + depends on NET + default y + help + Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances + of the network stack. + +endif # NAMESPACES + +config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE + bool "Checkpoint/restore support" + select PROC_CHILDREN + default n + help + Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. + In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, + data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem + entries. + + If unsure, say N here. + +config SCHED_AUTOGROUP + bool "Automatic process group scheduling" + select CGROUPS + select CGROUP_SCHED + select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + help + This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by + automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation + of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from + desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based + upon task session. + +config SYSFS_DEPRECATED + bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" + depends on SYSFS + default n + help + This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class + devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in + /sys/block/. + + This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is + passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. + + This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, + which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all + major distributions and tools handle this just fine. + + Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on + the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this + option enabled. + + Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might + need to say Y here. + +config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 + bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" + default n + depends on SYSFS + depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED + help + Enable deprecated sysfs by default. + + See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this + option. + + Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might + need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it + enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. + +config RELAY + bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" + select IRQ_WORK + help + This option enables support for relay interface support in + certain file systems (such as debugfs). + It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and + facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to + user space. + + If unsure, say N. + +config BLK_DEV_INITRD + bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" + help + The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the + boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root + before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to + load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, + etc. See for details. + + If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this + also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds + 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. + + If unsure say Y. + +if BLK_DEV_INITRD + +source "usr/Kconfig" + +endif + +choice + prompt "Compiler optimization level" + default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE + +config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE + bool "Optimize for performance" + help + This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building + with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most + helpful compile-time warnings. + +config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE + bool "Optimize for size" + help + Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to + your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. + + If unsure, say N. + +endchoice + +config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION + bool + help + This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects + its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts + must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into + output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated + sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names + is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. + +config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION + bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION + depends on EXPERT + depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) + depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) + depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) + help + Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with + the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, + and linking with --gc-sections. + + This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel + code and static data, particularly for small configs and + on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing + silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not + present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your + own risk. + +config SYSCTL + bool + +config ANON_INODES + bool + +config HAVE_UID16 + bool + +config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE + bool + help + Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. + +config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN + bool + help + Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap + Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn + about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. + +config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW + bool + help + Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap + Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle + the unaligned access emulation. + see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference + +config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM + bool + +# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on +config BPF + bool + +menuconfig EXPERT + bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" + # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible + select DEBUG_KERNEL + help + This option allows certain base kernel options and settings + to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized + environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. + Only use this if you really know what you are doing. + +config UID16 + bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT + depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER + default y + help + This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. + +config MULTIUSER + bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT + default y + help + This option enables support for non-root users, groups and + capabilities. + + If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all + possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for + system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, + setgid, and capset. + + If unsure, say Y here. + +config SGETMASK_SYSCALL + bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT + def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH + ---help--- + sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls + no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some + architectures. + + If unsure, leave the default option here. + +config SYSFS_SYSCALL + bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT + default y + ---help--- + sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. + Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break + compatibility with some systems. + + If unsure say Y here. + +config SYSCTL_SYSCALL + bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT + depends on PROC_SYSCTL + default n + select SYSCTL + ---help--- + sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging + to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys + using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this + information. + + Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are + trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, + making your kernel marginally smaller. + + If unsure say N here. + +config FHANDLE + bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT + select EXPORTFS + default y + help + If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map + file names to handle and then later use the handle for + different file system operations. This is useful in implementing + userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead + of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names + get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) + syscalls. + +config POSIX_TIMERS + bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT + default y + help + This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. + Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they + can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. + + When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be + available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, + timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, + setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, + clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to + CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. + + If unsure say y. + +config PRINTK + default y + bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT + select IRQ_WORK + help + This option enables normal printk support. Removing it + eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image + and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it + very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is + strongly discouraged. + +config PRINTK_NMI + def_bool y + depends on PRINTK + depends on HAVE_NMI + +config BUG + bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT + default y + help + Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing + the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring + numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this + option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. + Just say Y. + +config ELF_CORE + depends on COREDUMP + default y + bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT + help + Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. + + +config PCSPKR_PLATFORM + bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT + depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM + select I8253_LOCK + default y + help + This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker + support, saving some memory. + +config BASE_FULL + default y + bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT + help + Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core + kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, + but may reduce performance. + +config FUTEX + bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT + default y + imply RT_MUTEXES + help + Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without + support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not + run glibc-based applications correctly. + +config FUTEX_PI + bool + depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES + default y + +config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG + bool + depends on FUTEX + help + Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() + is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime + checks. + +config EPOLL + bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT + default y + select ANON_INODES + help + Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without + support for epoll family of system calls. + +config SIGNALFD + bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT + select ANON_INODES + default y + help + Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals + on a file descriptor. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config TIMERFD + bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT + select ANON_INODES + default y + help + Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer + events on a file descriptor. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config EVENTFD + bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT + select ANON_INODES + default y + help + Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both + kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config SHMEM + bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT + default y + depends on MMU + help + The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. + It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported + to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this + option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, + which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. + +config AIO + bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT + default y + help + This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used + by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling + this option saves about 7k. + +config ADVISE_SYSCALLS + bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT + default y + help + This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by + applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file + usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no + applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save + space. + +config MEMBARRIER + bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT + default y + help + Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory + barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute + the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming + pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a + compiler barrier. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config KALLSYMS + bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT + default y + help + Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and + symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel + somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. + +config KALLSYMS_ALL + bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS + help + Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer + OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext + sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare + cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., + names of variables from the data sections, etc). + + This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel + image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel + size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or + something like this). + + Say N unless you really need all symbols. + +config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU + bool + depends on KALLSYMS + default X86_64 && SMP + +config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE + bool + depends on KALLSYMS + default !IA64 + help + Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, + emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, + each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] + or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either + an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the + range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol + address encountered in the image. + + On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, + but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build + time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix + up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. + +# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu + +# syscall, maps, verifier +config BPF_SYSCALL + bool "Enable bpf() system call" + select ANON_INODES + select BPF + select IRQ_WORK + default n + help + Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF + programs and maps via file descriptors. + +config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON + bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" + depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT + help + Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid + speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter + +config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF + bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" + depends on BPF_SYSCALL + help + Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding + /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled knob to 2. An admin can + still reenable it by setting it to 0 later on, or permanently + disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to + 0 is possible anymore). + +config USERFAULTFD + bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" + select ANON_INODES + depends on MMU + help + Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and + handle page faults in userland. + +config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS + bool + +config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE + bool + +config RSEQ + bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT + default y + depends on HAVE_RSEQ + select MEMBARRIER + help + Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a + user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which + speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, + as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on + per-CPU data. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config DEBUG_RSEQ + default n + bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT + depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. + + If unsure, say N. + +config EMBEDDED + bool "Embedded system" + option allnoconfig_y + select EXPERT + help + This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for + an embedded system so certain expert options are available + for configuration. + +config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS + bool + help + See tools/perf/design.txt for details. + +config PERF_USE_VMALLOC + bool + help + See tools/perf/design.txt for details + +config PC104 + bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT + help + Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for + selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target + machine has a PC/104 bus. + +menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" + +config PERF_EVENTS + bool "Kernel performance events and counters" + default y if PROFILING + depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS + select ANON_INODES + select IRQ_WORK + select SRCU + help + Enable kernel support for various performance events provided + by software and hardware. + + Software events are supported either built-in or via the + use of generic tracepoints. + + Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance + counter registers. These registers count the number of certain + types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses + suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the + kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts + when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be + used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. + + The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of + these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a + system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It + provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event + capabilities on top of those. + + Say Y if unsure. + +config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC + default n + bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" + depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC + select PERF_USE_VMALLOC + help + Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. + + Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms + that don't require it. + + Say N if unsure. + +endmenu + +config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS + default y + bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT + help + VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. + This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters + on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts + if VM event counters are disabled. + +config SLUB_DEBUG + default y + bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT + depends on SLUB && SYSFS + help + SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can + result in significant savings in code size. This also disables + SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be + no support for cache validation etc. + +config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON + default n + bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT + depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG + help + SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each + allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory + cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup + caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these + caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead + to a very high number of debug files being created. This is + controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this + config option determines the parameter's default value. + +config COMPAT_BRK + bool "Disable heap randomization" + default y + help + Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it + also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). + This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization + disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting + /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. + + On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. + +choice + prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" + default SLUB + help + This option allows to select a slab allocator. + +config SLAB + bool "SLAB" + select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR + help + The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work + well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in + per cpu and per node queues. + +config SLUB + bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" + select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR + help + SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage + instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). + Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead + of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently + and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for + a slab allocator. + +config SLOB + depends on EXPERT + bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" + help + SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler + allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but + does not perform as well on large systems. + +endchoice + +config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT + bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" + default y + help + For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be + merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. + This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to + overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control + cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit + by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits + can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable + merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel + command line. + +config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM + default n + depends on SLAB || SLUB + bool "SLAB freelist randomization" + help + Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This + security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab + allocator against heap overflows. + +config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED + bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" + depends on SLUB + help + Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and + other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance + sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common + freelist exploit methods. + +config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL + default y + depends on SLUB && SMP + bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" + help + Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing + that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism + in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared + which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. + Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. + +config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED + bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" + depends on EXPERT && !MMU + default n + help + Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained + from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to + userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that + mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus + providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, + then the flag will be ignored. + + This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by + ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. + + Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be + enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in + userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, + it is normally safe to say Y here. + + See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. + +config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION + def_bool n + select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING + select KEYS + select CRYPTO + select CRYPTO_RSA + select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE + select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE + select ASN1 + select OID_REGISTRY + select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER + select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER + help + Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system + trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for + module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob + verification. + +config PROFILING + bool "Profiling support" + help + Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used + by profilers such as OProfile. + +# +# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be +# dynamically changed for a probe function. +# +config TRACEPOINTS + bool + +endmenu # General setup + +source "arch/Kconfig" + +config RT_MUTEXES + bool + +config BASE_SMALL + int + default 0 if BASE_FULL + default 1 if !BASE_FULL + +menuconfig MODULES + bool "Enable loadable module support" + option modules + help + Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can + be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being + permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" + tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, + many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by + answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most + useful for infrequently used options which are not required + for booting. For more information, see the man pages for + modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. + + If you say Y here, you will need to run "make + modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ + where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do + this). + + If unsure, say Y. + +if MODULES + +config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD + bool "Forced module loading" + default n + help + Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe + --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and + is usually a really bad idea. + +config MODULE_UNLOAD + bool "Module unloading" + help + Without this option you will not be able to unload any + modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable + anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster + and simpler. If unsure, say Y. + +config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD + bool "Forced module unloading" + depends on MODULE_UNLOAD + help + This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the + kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module + without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to + rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. + If unsure, say N. + +config MODVERSIONS + bool "Module versioning support" + help + Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. + Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules + compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information + to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would + make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If + unsure, say N. + +config MODULE_REL_CRCS + bool + depends on MODVERSIONS + +config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL + bool "Source checksum for all modules" + help + Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" + field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a + sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers + see exactly which source was used to build a module (since + others sometimes change the module source without updating + the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field + will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. + +config MODULE_SIG + bool "Module signature verification" + depends on MODULES + select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION + help + Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature + is simply appended to the module. For more information see + . + + Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a + kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto + library. + + !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the + module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the + debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and + inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. + +config MODULE_SIG_FORCE + bool "Require modules to be validly signed" + depends on MODULE_SIG + help + Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a + key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. + +config MODULE_SIG_ALL + bool "Automatically sign all modules" + default y + depends on MODULE_SIG + help + Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, + modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. + +comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" + depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL + +choice + prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" + depends on MODULE_SIG + help + This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during + signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel + directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not + possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check + the signature on that module. + +config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 + bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" + select CRYPTO_SHA1 + +config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 + bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" + select CRYPTO_SHA256 + +config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 + bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" + select CRYPTO_SHA256 + +config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 + bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" + select CRYPTO_SHA512 + +config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 + bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" + select CRYPTO_SHA512 + +endchoice + +config MODULE_SIG_HASH + string + depends on MODULE_SIG + default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 + default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 + default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 + default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 + default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 + +config MODULE_COMPRESS + bool "Compress modules on installation" + depends on MODULES + help + + Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or + xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. + + module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. + + Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be + compressed upon installation. + + Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient + to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. + + Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. + + If in doubt, say N. + +choice + prompt "Compression algorithm" + depends on MODULE_COMPRESS + default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP + help + This determines which sort of compression will be used during + 'make modules_install'. + + GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. + +config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP + bool "GZIP" + +config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ + bool "XZ" + +endchoice + +config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS + bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" + depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS + help + The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for + other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending + on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, + many of those exported symbols might never be used. + + This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from + the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities + (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing + binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. + + If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. + +endif # MODULES + +config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP + def_bool y + depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING + +config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE + bool + help + Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and + cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask + with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, + it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs + and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. + +source "block/Kconfig" + +config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS + bool + +config PADATA + depends on SMP + bool + +config ASN1 + tristate + help + Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output + that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to + inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what + functions to call on what tags. + +source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" + +config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE + bool + +# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the +# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in +# and the COMPAT_ variants in , in particular to use a +# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the +# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and +# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in +# . +config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER + def_bool n -- cgit v1.2.3