History log of /linux-master/fs/proc/Kconfig
Revision Date Author Comments
# 443cbaf9 23-Jan-2024 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c

Now move the relevant codes into separate files:
kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h.

And add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling.

And also update the old ifdeffery of CONFIG_CRASH_CORE, including of
<linux/crash_core.h> and config item dependency on CRASH_CORE
accordingly.

And also do renaming as follows:
- arch/xxx/kernel/{crash_core.c => vmcore_info.c}
because they are only related to vmcoreinfo exporting on x86, arm64,
riscv.

And also Remove config item CRASH_CORE, and rely on CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to
decide if build in crash_core.c.

[yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com: remove duplicated include in vmcore_info.c]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126005744.16561-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 7ec354ba 09-Sep-2022 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS

Commit 2e13ba54a268 ("fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN")
introduces the config PROC_CHILDREN to configure kernels to provide the
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file.

When one deselects PROC_FS for kernel builds without /proc/, the config
PROC_CHILDREN has no effect anymore, but is still visible in menuconfig.

Add the dependency on PROC_FS to make the PROC_CHILDREN option disappear
for kernel builds without /proc/.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909122529.1941-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Fixes: 2e13ba54a268 ("fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

Cc: Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# a7f7f624 13-Jun-2020 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>


# 0c1bc6b8 14-Apr-2020 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

docs: filesystems: fix renamed references

Some filesystem references got broken by a previous patch
series I submitted. Address those.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # fs/affs/Kconfig
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57318c53008dbda7f6f4a5a9e5787f4d37e8565a.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# e79f15a4 15-Jan-2020 Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>

x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display

Monitoring tools that want to find out which resctrl control and monitor
groups a task belongs to must currently read the "tasks" file in every
group until they locate the process ID.

Add an additional file /proc/{pid}/cpu_resctrl_groups to provide this
information:

1) res:
mon:

resctrl is not available.

2) res:/
mon:

Task is part of the root resctrl control group, and it is not associated
to any monitor group.

3) res:/
mon:mon0

Task is part of the root resctrl control group and monitor group mon0.

4) res:group0
mon:

Task is part of resctrl control group group0, and it is not associated
to any monitor group.

5) res:group0
mon:mon1

Task is part of resctrl control group group0 and monitor group mon1.

Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jinshi Chen <jinshi.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115092851.14761-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com


# 3d82191c 04-Dec-2019 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

fs/proc/Kconfig: fix indentation

Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in
coding style with command like:
$ sed -e 's/^ / /' -i */Kconfig

[adobriyan@gmail.com: add two spaces where necessary]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191124133936.GA5655@avx2
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c6c40533 16-Jul-2019 Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>

vmcore: add a kernel parameter novmcoredd

Since commit 2724273e8fd0 ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.

So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 57043247 22-Apr-2019 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it

The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 68bc30bb 05-Jun-2019 Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>

proc: Add /proc/<pid>/arch_status

Exposing architecture specific per process information is useful for
various reasons. An example is the AVX512 usage on x86 which is important
for task placement for power/performance optimizations.

Adding this information to the existing /prcc/pid/status file would be the
obvious choise, but it has been agreed on that a explicit arch_status file
is better in separating the generic and architecture specific information.

[ tglx: Massage changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: aubrey.li@intel.com
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606012236.9391-1-aubrey.li@linux.intel.com


# ec8f24b7 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 23c85094 21-Aug-2018 Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>

proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore

The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just
for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by other
means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most
to the file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2724273e 02-May-2018 Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>

vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel

The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.

2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback
function.

3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
and returns control back to vmcore module.

Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.

Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# db5d5b36 17-Jul-2015 Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>

fs, proc: add help for CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN

The purpose of the option was documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt but the help text was missing.

Add small help text that also points to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2e13ba54 25-Jun-2015 Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>

fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN

Commit 818411616baf ("fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children
entry") introduced the children entry for checkpoint restore and the
file is only available on kernels configured with CONFIG_EXPERT and
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

This is available in most distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS)
because they usually enable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
But Arch does not enable CONFIG_EXPERT or CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

However, the children proc file is useful outside of checkpoint restore.
I would like to use it in rkt. The rkt process exec() another program
it does not control, and that other program will fork()+exec() a child
process. I would like to find the pid of the child process from an
external tool without iterating in /proc over all processes to find
which one has a parent pid equal to rkt.

This commit introduces CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN and makes
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE select it. This allows enabling
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children without needing to enable
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and CONFIG_EXPERT.

Alban tested that /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children is present when the
kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN=y but without
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Tested-by: Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Djalal Harouni <djalal@endocode.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1c3fc3e5 12-Nov-2013 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

kcore: add Kconfig help text

Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help.

Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671

Thanks for David Howells for the help text.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: <lailavrazda1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6a108a14 20-Jan-2011 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a4f7326d 26-Oct-2010 WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

vmcore: it is not experimental any more

We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty
stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 53167a3e 02-Oct-2008 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>


# 6eedf8d3 25-Jul-2008 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

proc: move Kconfig to fs/proc/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>