7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
26 config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
29 config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
49 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
91 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
112 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
115 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
118 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
121 config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
124 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
127 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
214 config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
248 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
270 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
276 config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
284 See the man page for more details.
287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
300 bool "uselib syscall"
301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
310 bool "Auditing support"
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
318 config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
335 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
338 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
340 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
348 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
359 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
372 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
392 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
401 If in doubt, say N here.
403 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
417 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
443 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
464 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
466 depends on TASK_XACCT
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
473 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
475 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
482 tristate "Kernel .config support"
485 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
486 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
487 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
488 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
489 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
490 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
491 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
492 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
495 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
496 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
498 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
499 through /proc/config.gz.
502 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
503 range 12 25 if !H8300
508 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
509 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
510 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
511 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
521 config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
522 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
525 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
526 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
529 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
530 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
531 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
532 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
535 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
536 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
537 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
538 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
539 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
540 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
542 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
543 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
545 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
546 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
547 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
549 Examples shift values and their meaning:
550 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
551 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
552 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
553 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
554 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
555 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
557 config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
558 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
563 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
564 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
565 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
566 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
567 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
569 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
570 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
571 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
574 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
575 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
576 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
577 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
578 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
579 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
582 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
584 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
587 config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
591 # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
594 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
598 # For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
599 # are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
600 # must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
601 # written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
602 # should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
603 # and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
604 config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
608 # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
610 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
613 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
614 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
616 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
619 config NUMA_BALANCING
620 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
621 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
622 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
623 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
625 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
626 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
627 it has references to the node the task is running on.
629 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
631 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
632 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
634 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
636 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
640 bool "Control Group support"
643 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
644 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
645 controls or device isolation.
647 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
648 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
649 and resource control)
659 bool "Memory controller"
663 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
666 bool "Swap controller"
667 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
669 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
671 config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
672 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
673 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
676 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
677 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
678 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
679 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
680 parameter should have this option unselected.
681 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
682 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
683 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
690 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
691 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
694 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
695 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
696 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
697 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
699 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
700 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
701 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
702 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
703 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
705 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
707 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
708 bool "IO controller debugging"
709 depends on BLK_CGROUP
712 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
713 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
715 config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
717 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
720 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
721 bool "CPU controller"
724 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
725 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
729 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
730 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
731 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
735 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
736 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
739 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
740 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
741 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
743 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
745 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
746 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
747 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
750 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
751 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
752 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
753 realtime bandwidth for them.
754 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
759 bool "PIDs controller"
761 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
762 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
763 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
764 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
765 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
766 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
767 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
769 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
770 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
771 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
775 bool "RDMA controller"
777 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
778 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
779 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
780 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
781 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
782 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
784 config CGROUP_FREEZER
785 bool "Freezer controller"
787 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
790 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
791 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
793 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
795 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
796 bool "HugeTLB controller"
797 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
801 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
802 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
803 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
804 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
805 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
806 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
807 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
808 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
809 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
812 bool "Cpuset controller"
815 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
816 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
817 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
818 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
822 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
823 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
828 bool "Device controller"
830 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
831 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
833 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
834 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
836 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
837 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
840 bool "Perf controller"
841 depends on PERF_EVENTS
843 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
844 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
850 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
851 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
852 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
854 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
855 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
857 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
858 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
859 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
863 bool "Debug controller"
865 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
867 This option enables a simple controller that exports
868 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
869 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
870 interfaces are not stable.
874 config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
880 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
881 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
885 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
886 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
887 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
890 If unsure, say N here.
892 menuconfig NAMESPACES
893 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
897 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
898 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
899 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
900 different namespaces.
908 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
913 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
916 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
917 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
920 bool "User namespace"
923 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
924 to provide different user info for different servers.
926 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
927 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
928 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
929 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
934 bool "PID Namespaces"
937 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
938 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
939 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
942 bool "Network namespace"
946 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
947 of the network stack.
951 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
952 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
955 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
957 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
958 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
959 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
960 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
963 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
964 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
968 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
969 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
972 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
973 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
975 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
976 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
977 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
979 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
980 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
983 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
986 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
987 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
990 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
992 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
994 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
997 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
998 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
999 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1002 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1005 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1006 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1007 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1008 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1013 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1014 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1015 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1017 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1018 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1019 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1020 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1021 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1023 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1024 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1025 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1031 source "usr/Kconfig"
1036 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1037 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1039 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1040 bool "Optimize for performance"
1042 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1043 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1044 helpful compile-time warnings.
1046 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1047 bool "Optimize for size"
1049 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1050 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1065 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1068 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1070 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1073 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1074 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1075 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1077 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1080 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1081 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1082 the unaligned access emulation.
1083 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1085 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1088 # interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1093 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1094 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1097 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1098 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1099 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1100 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1103 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1104 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1107 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1110 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1113 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1116 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1117 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1118 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1121 If unsure, say Y here.
1123 config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1124 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1125 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1127 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1128 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1131 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1133 config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1134 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1137 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1138 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1139 compatibility with some systems.
1141 If unsure say Y here.
1143 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
1144 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
1145 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1149 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1150 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1151 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1154 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1155 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1156 making your kernel marginally smaller.
1158 If unsure say N here.
1161 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1164 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1165 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1166 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1168 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1169 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1170 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1171 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1172 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1173 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1178 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1181 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1182 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1183 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1186 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1187 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1189 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1190 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1191 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1192 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1193 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1195 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1196 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1197 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1198 something like this).
1200 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1202 config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1205 default X86_64 && SMP
1207 config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1210 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1212 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1213 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1214 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1215 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1216 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1217 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1218 address encountered in the image.
1220 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1221 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1222 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1223 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1227 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1230 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1231 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1232 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1233 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1234 strongly discouraged.
1242 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1245 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1246 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1247 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1248 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1254 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1256 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1259 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1260 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1261 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1265 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1266 support, saving some memory.
1270 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1272 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1273 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1274 but may reduce performance.
1277 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1281 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1282 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1283 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1287 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1290 config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1294 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1295 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1299 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1303 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1304 support for epoll family of system calls.
1307 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1311 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1312 on a file descriptor.
1317 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1321 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1322 events on a file descriptor.
1327 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1331 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1332 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1336 # syscall, maps, verifier
1338 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1343 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1344 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1346 config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1347 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1348 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1350 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1351 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1354 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1358 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1359 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1360 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1361 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1362 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1365 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1368 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1369 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1370 this option saves about 7k.
1372 config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1373 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1376 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1377 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1378 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1379 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1383 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1387 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1388 handle page faults in userland.
1392 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1395 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1396 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1397 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1400 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1403 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1404 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1405 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1406 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1412 bool "Embedded system"
1413 option allnoconfig_y
1416 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1417 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1420 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1423 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1425 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1428 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1431 bool "PC/104 support"
1433 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1434 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1435 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1437 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1440 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1441 default y if PROFILING
1442 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1447 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1448 by software and hardware.
1450 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1451 use of generic tracepoints.
1453 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1454 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1455 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1456 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1457 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1458 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1459 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1461 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1462 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1463 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1464 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1465 capabilities on top of those.
1469 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1471 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1472 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1473 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1475 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1477 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1478 that don't require it.
1484 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1486 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1488 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1489 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1490 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1491 if VM event counters are disabled.
1495 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1496 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1498 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1499 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1500 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1501 no support for cache validation etc.
1503 config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1505 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1506 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1508 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1509 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1510 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1511 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1512 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1513 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1514 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1515 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1518 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1521 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1522 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1523 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1524 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1525 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1527 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1530 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1533 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1537 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
1539 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1540 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1541 per cpu and per node queues.
1544 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1545 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
1547 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1548 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1549 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1550 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1551 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1556 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1558 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1559 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1560 does not perform as well on large systems.
1564 config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1565 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1568 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1569 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1570 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1571 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1572 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1573 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1574 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1575 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1578 config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1580 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1581 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1583 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1584 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1585 allocator against heap overflows.
1587 config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1588 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1591 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1592 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
1593 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
1594 freelist exploit methods.
1596 config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1598 depends on SLUB && SMP
1599 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1601 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1602 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1603 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1604 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1605 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1607 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1608 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1609 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1612 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1613 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1614 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1615 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1616 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1617 then the flag will be ignored.
1619 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1620 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1622 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1623 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1624 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1625 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1627 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1629 config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1631 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1635 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1636 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1639 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1640 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
1642 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1643 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1644 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1648 bool "Profiling support"
1650 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1651 by profilers such as OProfile.
1654 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1655 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1660 source "arch/Kconfig"
1662 endmenu # General setup
1664 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1671 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1679 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1680 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1683 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1686 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1687 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1688 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1689 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1690 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1691 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1692 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1693 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1694 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1696 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1697 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1698 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1705 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1706 bool "Forced module loading"
1709 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1710 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1711 is usually a really bad idea.
1713 config MODULE_UNLOAD
1714 bool "Module unloading"
1716 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1717 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1718 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1719 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1721 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1722 bool "Forced module unloading"
1723 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
1725 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1726 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1727 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1728 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1732 bool "Module versioning support"
1734 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1735 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1736 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1737 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1738 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1741 config MODULE_REL_CRCS
1743 depends on MODVERSIONS
1745 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1746 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1748 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1749 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1750 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1751 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1752 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1753 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1754 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1757 bool "Module signature verification"
1759 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1761 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1762 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1763 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1765 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1766 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1769 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1770 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1771 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1772 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1774 config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1775 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1776 depends on MODULE_SIG
1778 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1779 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1781 config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1782 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1784 depends on MODULE_SIG
1786 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1787 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1789 comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1790 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1793 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1794 depends on MODULE_SIG
1796 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1797 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1798 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1799 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1800 the signature on that module.
1802 config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1803 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1806 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1807 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1808 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1810 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1811 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1812 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1814 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1815 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1816 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1818 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1819 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1820 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1824 config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1826 depends on MODULE_SIG
1827 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1828 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1829 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1830 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1831 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1833 config MODULE_COMPRESS
1834 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1838 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1839 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1841 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1843 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1844 compressed upon installation.
1846 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1847 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1849 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1854 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1855 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1856 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1858 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1859 'make modules_install'.
1861 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1863 config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1866 config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1871 config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1872 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1873 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1875 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1876 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1877 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1878 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1880 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1881 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1882 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
1883 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
1885 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
1889 config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1891 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
1893 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1896 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1897 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
1898 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1899 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1900 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1902 source "block/Kconfig"
1904 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1914 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1915 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1916 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1917 functions to call on what tags.
1919 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"