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| 1 | +# Kernel Configuration for BPF Features |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## BPF Related Kernel Configurations |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +| Functionalities | Kernel Configuration | Description | |
| 6 | +|:----------------|:---------------------|:------------| |
| 7 | +| **Basic** | CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL | Enable the bpf() system call | |
| 8 | +| | CONFIG_BPF_JIT | BPF programs are normally handled by a BPF interpreter. This option allows the kernel to generate native code when a program is loaded into the kernel. This will significantly speed-up processing of BPF programs | |
| 9 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_BPF_JIT | Enable BPF Just In Time compiler | |
| 10 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT | Extended BPF JIT (eBPF) | |
| 11 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_CBPF_JIT | Classic BPF JIT (cBPF) | |
| 12 | +| | CONFIG_MODULES | Enable to build loadable kernel modules | |
| 13 | +| | CONFIG_BPF | BPF VM interpreter | |
| 14 | +| | CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS | Allow the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and tracepoint events | |
| 15 | +| | CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS | Kernel performance events and counters | |
| 16 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | Enable perf events | |
| 17 | +| | CONFIG_PROFILING | Enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers | |
| 18 | +| **BTF** | CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF | Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info | |
| 19 | +| | CONFIG_PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF | Generate BTF for each selected kernel module | |
| 20 | +| | CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES | Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules | |
| 21 | +| **Security** | CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON | Enable BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid speculative execution | |
| 22 | +| | CONFIG_BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF | Disable unprivileged BPF by default by setting | |
| 23 | +| **Cgroup** | CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF | Support for BPF programs attached to cgroups | |
| 24 | +| **Network** | CONFIG_BPFILTER | BPF based packet filtering framework (BPFILTER) | |
| 25 | +| | CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH | This builds bpfilter kernel module with embedded user mode helper | |
| 26 | +| | CONFIG_NET_CLS_BPF | BPF-based classifier - to classify packets based on programmable BPF (JIT'ed) filters as an alternative to ematches | |
| 27 | +| | CONFIG_NET_ACT_BPF | Execute BPF code on packets. The BPF code will decide if the packet should be dropped or not | |
| 28 | +| | CONFIG_BPF_STREAM_PARSER | Enable this to allow a TCP stream parser to be used with BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP | |
| 29 | +| | CONFIG_LWTUNNEL_BPF | Allow to run BPF programs as a nexthop action following a route lookup for incoming and outgoing packets | |
| 30 | +| | CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_BPF | BPF matching applies a linux socket filter to each packet and accepts those for which the filter returns non-zero | |
| 31 | +| | CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_BPF | To support BPF seg6local hook. bpf: Add IPv6 Segment Routing helpersy. [Reference](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fe94cc290f535709d3c5ebd1e472dfd0aec7ee7) | |
| 32 | +| **kprobes** | CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS | This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the ftrace interface | |
| 33 | +| | CONFIG_KPROBES | Enable kprobes-based dynamic events | |
| 34 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES | Check if krpobes enabled | |
| 35 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs. For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | |
| 36 | +| | CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | Have kprobes on function tracer if arch supports full passing of pt_regs to function tracing | |
| 37 | +| **kprobe multi** | CONFIG_FPROBE | Enable fprobe to attach the probe on multiple functions at once | |
| 38 | +| **kprobe override** | CONFIG_BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE | Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function | |
| 39 | +| **uprobes** | CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS | Enable uprobes-based dynamic events | |
| 40 | +| | CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES | Arch specific uprobes support | |
| 41 | +| | CONFIG_UPROBES | Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes are hit by user-space applications. | |
| 42 | +| | CONFIG_MMU | MMU-based virtualised addressing space support by paged memory management | |
| 43 | +| **Tracepoints** | CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS | Enable inserting tracepoints in the kernel and connect to proble functions | |
| 44 | +| | CONFIG_HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS | Enable syscall enter/exit tracing | |
| 45 | +| **Raw Tracepoints** | Same as Tracepoints | | |
| 46 | +| **LSM** | CONFIG_BPF_LSM | Enable instrumentation of the security hooks with BPF programs for implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies | |
| 47 | +| **LIRC** | CONFIG_BPF_LIRC_MODE2 | Allow attaching BPF programs to a lirc device | |
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