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33.Dd May 7, 2022
34.Dt OPTIONS 4
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm options
38.Nd Miscellaneous kernel configuration options
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Cd cinclude ...
41.Cd config ...
42.Cd [no] file-system ...
43.Cd ident ...
44.Cd include ...
45.Cd [no] makeoptions ...
46.Cd maxusers ...
47.Cd [no] options ...
48.Cd [no] pseudo-device ...
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50This manual page describes a number of miscellaneous kernel
51configuration options that may be specified in a kernel config
52file.
53See
54.Xr config 1
55and
56.Xr config 5
57for information on how to configure and build kernels.
58.Pp
59The
60.Ar no
61form removes a previously specified option.
62.Ss Keywords
63The following keywords are recognized in a kernel configuration file:
64.Bl -ohang
65.It Sy cinclude Qq Ar filename
66Conditionally includes another kernel configuration file whose name is
67.Ar filename ,
68which may be double-quoted and may be an explicit path or relative to
69the kernel source directory.
70Failure to open the named file is ignored.
71.It Sy config Ar exec_name No root on Ar rootdev Oo type Ar fstype Oc \
72Oo dumps on Ar dumpdev Oc
73Defines a configuration whose kernel executable is named
74.Ar exec_name ,
75normally
76.Dq netbsd ,
77with its root file system of type
78.Ar fstype
79on the device
80.Ar rootdev ,
81and optionally specifying the location of kernel core dumps on the device
82.Ar dumpdev .
83.Ar dev
84or
85.Ar dumpdev
86and
87.Ar fstype
88may be specified as
89.Dq \&? ,
90which is a wild card.
91The root
92.Ar fstype
93and
94.Ar dumpdev
95are optional and assumed to be wild carded if they are not specified.
96.It Ar device_instance No at Ar attachment \
97Oo Ar locators value Oo ... Oc Oc Oo flags Ar value Oc
98Define an instance of the device driver
99.Ar device_instance
100that attaches to the bus or device named
101.Ar attachment .
102An
103.Ar attachment
104may require additional information on where the device can be found, such
105as an address, channel, function, offset, and/or slot, referred to as
106.Ar locators ,
107whose
108.Ar value
109often may be a wild card,
110.Dq \&? .
111Some device drivers have one or more
112.Ar flags
113that can be adjusted to affect the way they operate.
114.It Sy file-system Ar fs_name Op , Ar fs_name Op ...
115Include support for the file-system
116.Ar fs_name .
117.It Sy ident Qq Ar string
118Sets the kernel identification string to
119.Ar string .
120.It Sy include Qq Ar filename
121Functions the same as
122.Ar cinclude ,
123except failure to open
124.Ar filename
125produces a fatal error.
126.It Sy makeoptions Ar name=value
127Defines a
128.Xr make 1
129macro
130.Ar name
131with the value
132.Ar value
133in the kernel Makefile.
134.It Sy maxusers Ar integer
135Set the maxusers variable in the kernel.
136.It Sy no Ar keyword Ar name Op Ar arguments Op ...
137For the
138.Xr config 1
139.Ar keywords
140file-system, makeoptions, options, and pseudo-device,
141.Ar no
142removes the file-system, makeoption, options, or pseudo-device,
143.Ar name .
144This is useful when a kernel configuration file includes another which
145has undesired options.
146.Pp
147For example, a local configuration file that wanted the kitchen sink, but
148not COMPAT_09 or bridging, might be:
149.Bd -literal -offset indent
150include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC"
151no options COMPAT_09
152no pseudo-device bridge
153.Ed
154.It Sy options Ar option_name Op , Ar option_name=value Op ...
155Specifies (or sets) the option, or comma-separated list of options,
156.Ar option_name .
157Some options expect to be assigned a value, which may be an integer,
158a double-quoted word, a bare word, or an empty string
159.Pq Qq .
160Note that those are eventually handled by the C compiler, so the rules
161of that language apply.
162.Pp
163.Em Note :
164Options that are not defined by device definition files are passed to
165the compile process as
166.Fl D
167flags to the C compiler.
168.It Sy pseudo-device Ar name Op Ar N
169Includes support for the pseudo-device
170.Ar name .
171Some pseudo-devices can have multiple or
172.Ar N
173instances.
174.El
175.Ss Compatibility Options
176Note that compatibility options for older
177.Nx
178releases includes support for newer releases as well.
179This means that typically only one of these is necessary, with the
180.Cd COMPAT_09
181option enabling all
182.Nx
183compatibility.
184This does not include the
185.Cd COMPAT_43
186or
187.Cd COMPAT_44
188options.
189.Bl -ohang
190.It Cd options COMPAT_09
191Enable binary compatibility with
192.Nx 0.9 .
193This enables support for
19416-bit user, group, and process IDs (following revisions support
19532-bit identifiers).
196It also allows the use of the deprecated
197.Xr getdomainname 3 ,
198.Xr setdomainname 3 ,
199and
200.Xr uname 3
201syscalls.
202This option also allows using numeric file system identifiers rather
203than strings.
204Post
205.Nx 0.9
206versions use string identifiers.
207.It Cd options COMPAT_10
208Enable binary compatibility with
209.Nx 1.0 .
210This option allows the use of the file system name of
211.Dq ufs
212as an alias for
213.Dq ffs .
214The name
215.Dq ffs
216should be used post 1.0 in
217.Pa /etc/fstab
218and other files.
219It also adds old syscalls for the
220.At V
221shared memory interface.
222This was changed post 1.0 to work on 64-bit architectures.
223This option also enables
224.Dq sgtty
225compatibility, without which programs using the old interface produce
226an
227.Dq inappropriate ioctl
228error, and
229.Pa /dev/io
230only works when this option is set in the kernel,
231see
232.Xr io 4
233on ports that support it.
234.It Cd options COMPAT_11
235Enable binary compatibility with
236.Nx 1.1 .
237This allows binaries running on the i386 port to gain direct access to
238the io ports by opening
239.Pa /dev/io
240read/write.
241This functionality was replaced by
242.Xr i386_iopl 2
243post 1.1.
244On the Atari port, the location of the disk label was moved after 1.1.
245When the
246.Em COMPAT_11
247option is set, the kernel will read (pre) 1.1 style disk labels as a
248last resort.
249When a disk label is re-written, the old style label will be replaced
250with a post 1.1 style label.
251This also enables the
252.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS
253option.
254.It Cd options COMPAT_12
255Enable binary compatibility with
256.Nx 1.2 .
257This allows the use of old syscalls for
258.Fn reboot
259and
260.Fn swapon .
261The syscall numbers were changed post 1.2 to add functionality to the
262.Xr reboot 2
263syscall, and the new
264.Xr swapctl 2
265interface was introduced.
266This also enables the
267.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS
268option.
269.It Cd options COMPAT_13
270Enable binary compatibility with
271.Nx 1.3 .
272This allows the use of old syscalls for
273.Fn sigaltstack ,
274and also enables the old
275.Xr swapctl 2
276command
277.Dv SWAP_STATS
278(now called
279.Dv SWAP_OSTATS ) ,
280which does not include the
281.Fa se_path
282member of
283.Va struct swapent .
284.It Cd options COMPAT_14
285Enable binary compatibility with
286.Nx 1.4 .
287This allows some old
288.Xr ioctl 2
289on
290.Xr wscons 4
291to be performed, and allows the
292.Dv NFSSVC_BIOD
293mode of the
294.Xr nfssvc 2
295system call to be used for compatibility with the deprecated nfsiod program.
296.It Cd options COMPAT_15
297Enable binary compatibility with
298.Nx 1.5 .
299Since there were no API changes from
300.Nx 1.5
301and
302.Nx 1.6 ,
303this option does nothing.
304.It Cd options COMPAT_16
305Enable binary compatibility with
306.Nx 1.6 .
307This allows the use of old signal trampoline code which has been deprecated
308with the addition of
309.Xr siginfo 2 .
310.It Cd options COMPAT_20
311Enable binary compatibility with
312.Nx 2.0 .
313This allows the use of old syscalls for
314.Fn statfs ,
315.Fn fstatfs ,
316.Fn getfsstat
317and
318.Fn fhstatfs ,
319which have been deprecated with the addition of the
320.Xr statvfs 2 ,
321.Xr fstatvfs 2 ,
322.Xr getvfsstat 2
323and
324.Xr fhstatvfs 2
325system calls.
326.It Cd options COMPAT_30
327Enable binary compatibility with
328.Nx 3.0 .
329See
330.Xr compat_30 8
331for details about the changes made after the
332.Nx 3.0
333release.
334.It Cd options COMPAT_40
335Enable binary compatibility with
336.Nx 4.0 .
337This allows the use of old
338.Xr ptrace 2
339calls for the SH3 platform.
340It also enables the old
341.Xr mount 2
342system call that did not include the data length parameter.
343The power_event_t structure's pev_switch is filled in.
344.It Cd options COMPAT_43
345Enables compatibility with
346.Bx 4.3 .
347This adds an old syscall for
348.Xr lseek 2 .
349It also adds the ioctls for
350.Dv TIOCGETP
351and
352.Dv TIOCSETP .
353The return values for
354.Xr getpid 2 ,
355.Xr getgid 2 ,
356and
357.Xr getuid 2
358syscalls are modified as well, to return the parent's PID and
359UID as well as the current process's.
360It also enables the deprecated
361.Dv NTTYDISC
362terminal line discipline.
363It also provides backwards compatibility with
364.Dq old
365SIOC[GS]IF{ADDR,DSTADDR,BRDADDR,NETMASK} interface ioctls, including
366binary compatibility with code written before the introduction of the
367sa_len field in sockaddrs.
368It also enables
369support for some older pre
370.Bx 4.4
371socket calls.
372.It Cd options COMPAT_50
373Enable binary compatibility with
374.Nx 5.0 .
375This enables support for the old
376.Ft time_t
377and
378.Ft dev_t
379types as 32 bit, and all the associated kernel interface changes.
380It also enables old
381.Xr gpio 4
382and
383.Xr rnd 4
384interfaces.
385.It Cd options COMPAT_60
386Enable binary compatibility with
387.Nx 6.0 .
388This provides old
389.Xr ccd 4
390interfaces, enables support for old
391.Xr cpuctl 8
392microcode interfaces, and support for the old
393.Ft ptmget
394structure.
395.It Cd options COMPAT_70
396Enable binary compatibility with
397.Nx 7.0 .
398This provides support for old
399.Xr route 4
400interfaces.
401.It Cd options COMPAT_80
402Enable binary compatibility with
403.Nx 8.0 .
404.It Cd options COMPAT_90
405Enable binary compatibility with
406.Nx 9.0 .
407.It Cd options COMPAT_BSDPTY
408This option is currently on by default and enables the pty multiplexer
409.Xr ptm 4
410and
411.Xr ptmx 4
412to find and use ptys named
413.Pa /dev/ptyXX
414(master) and
415.Pa /dev/ttyXX
416(slave).
417Eventually this option will become optional as ptyfs based pseudo-ttys become
418the default, see
419.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 .
420.It Cd options COMPAT_LINUX
421On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
422compatibility with Linux ELF and
423.Xr a.out 5
424applications built for the same architecture.
425This currently includes the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, mips, powerpc and
426x86_64 ports.
427.It Cd options COMPAT_LINUX32
428On those 64 bit architectures that support it, this enables binary
429compatibility with 32 bit Linux binaries.
430For now this is limited to running i386 ELF Linux binaries on amd64.
431.It Cd options COMPAT_SUNOS
432On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
433compatibility with SunOS 4.1 applications built for the same architecture.
434This currently includes the sparc, sparc64 and most or all m68k ports.
435Note that the sparc64 requires the
436.Em COMPAT_NETBSD32
437option for 64-bit kernels, in addition to this option.
438.It Cd options COMPAT_ULTRIX
439On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
440compatibility with ULTRIX applications built for the same architecture.
441This currently is limited to the pmax.
442The functionality of this option is unknown.
443.It Cd options COMPAT_FREEBSD
444On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
445compatibility with
446.Fx
447applications built for the same architecture.
448At the moment this is limited to the i386 port.
449.It Cd options COMPAT_NOMID
450Enable compatibility with
451.Xr a.out 5
452executables that lack a machine ID.
453This includes
454.Nx 0.8 Ns 's
455ZMAGIC format, and 386BSD and BSDI's
456QMAGIC, NMAGIC, and OMAGIC
457.Xr a.out 5
458formats.
459.It Cd options COMPAT_NETBSD32
460On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
461compatibility with 32-bit applications built for the same architecture.
462This is currently limited to the amd64 and sparc64 ports, and only
463applicable for 64-bit kernels.
464.It Cd options COMPAT_AOUT_M68K
465On m68k architectures which have switched to ELF,
466this enables binary compatibility with
467.Nx Ns /m68k
468.Xr a.out 5
469executables on
470.Nx Ns /m68k
471ELF kernels.
472This handles alignment incompatibility of m68k ABI between
473a.out and ELF which causes the structure padding differences.
474Currently only some system calls which use
475.Va struct stat
476are adjusted and some binaries which use
477.Xr sysctl 3
478to retrieve network details would not work properly.
479.It Cd options EMUL_NATIVEROOT=string
480Just like emulated binaries first try looking up files in
481an emulation root (e.g.
482.Pa /emul/linux )
483before looking them up in real root, this option causes native
484binaries to first look up files in an "emulation" directory too.
485This can be useful to test an amd64 kernel on top of an i386 system
486before full migration: by unpacking the amd64 distribution in e.g.
487.Pa /emul/netbsd64
488and specifying that location as
489.Cd EMUL_NATIVEROOT ,
490native amd64 binaries can be run while the root file system remains
491populated with i386 binaries.
492Beware of
493.Pa /dev
494incompatibilities between i386 and amd64 if you do this.
495.It Cd options EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS
496Run unidentified ELF binaries as
497.Nx
498binaries.
499This might be needed for very old
500.Nx
501ELF binaries on some archs.
502These old binaries didn't contain an appropriate
503.Li .note.netbsd.ident
504section, and thus can't be identified by the kernel as
505.Nx
506binaries otherwise.
507Beware - if this option is on, the kernel would run
508.Em any
509unknown ELF binaries as if they were
510.Nx
511binaries.
512.El
513.Ss Debugging Options
514.Bl -ohang
515.It Cd options DDB
516Compiles in a kernel debugger for diagnosing kernel problems.
517See
518.Xr ddb 4
519for details.
520.Em NOTE :
521not available on all architectures.
522.It Cd options DDB_FROMCONSOLE=integer
523If set to non-zero, DDB may be entered by sending a break on a serial
524console or by a special key sequence on a graphics console.
525A value of "0" ignores console breaks or key sequences.
526If not explicitly specified, the default value is "1".
527Note that this sets the value of the
528.Em ddb.fromconsole
529.Xr sysctl 3
530variable which may be changed at run time \(em see
531.Xr sysctl 8
532for details.
533.It Cd options DDB_HISTORY_SIZE=integer
534If this is non-zero, enable history editing in the kernel debugger
535and set the size of the history to this value.
536.It Cd options DDB_ONPANIC
537The default if not specified is
538.Dq 1
539- just enter into DDB.
540If set to
541.Dq 0
542the kernel will attempt to print out a stack trace
543and reboot the system.
544If set to
545.Dq -1
546then neither a stack trace is printed or DDB entered -
547it is as if DDB were not compiled into the kernel.
548Note that this sets the value of the
549.Em ddb.onpanic
550.Xr sysctl 3
551variable which may be changed at run time \(em see
552.Xr sysctl 8
553for details.
554.It Cd options DDB_COMMANDONENTER=string
555This option specify commands which will be executed on each entry to DDB.
556This sets the default value of the
557.Em ddb.commandonenter
558.Xr sysctl 3
559variable which may be changed at run time.
560.It Cd options DDB_BREAK_CHAR=integer
561This option overrides using break to enter the kernel debugger
562on the serial console.
563The value given is the ASCII value to be used instead.
564This is currently only supported by the com driver.
565.It Cd options CNMAGIC=string
566This option overrides the
567.Xr cnmagic 9
568string used to enter the kernel debugger.
569.It Cd options DDB_VERBOSE_HELP
570This option adds more verbose descriptions to the
571.Em help
572command.
573.It Cd options DDB_PANICSTACKFRAMES=integer
574Number of stack frames to display on panic.
575Useful to avoid scrolling away the interesting frames on a glass tty.
576Default value is
577.Dv 65535
578(all frames), useful value around
579.Dv 10 .
580.It Cd options KGDB
581Compiles in a remote kernel debugger stub for diagnosing kernel problems
582using the
583.Dq remote target
584feature of gdb.
585See
586.Xr gdb 1
587for details.
588.Em NOTE :
589not available on all architectures.
590.It Cd options KGDB_DEV
591Device number
592.Po
593as a
594.Dv dev_t
595.Pc
596of kgdb device.
597.It Cd options KGDB_DEVADDR
598Memory address of kgdb device.
599.It Cd options KGDB_DEVMODE
600Permissions of kgdb device.
601.It Cd options KGDB_DEVNAME
602Device name of kgdb device.
603.It Cd options KGDB_DEVRATE
604Baud rate of kgdb device.
605.It Cd makeoptions DEBUG="-g"
606The
607.Fl g
608flag causes
609.Pa netbsd.gdb
610to be built in addition to
611.Pa netbsd .
612.Pa netbsd.gdb
613is useful for debugging kernel crash dumps with gdb.
614See
615.Xr gdb 1
616for details.
617.It Cd options DEBUG
618Turns on miscellaneous kernel debugging.
619Since options are turned into preprocessor defines (see above),
620.Em options DEBUG
621is equivalent to doing a
622.Em #define DEBUG
623throughout the kernel.
624Much of the kernel has
625.Em #ifdef DEBUG
626conditionalized debugging code.
627Note that many parts of the kernel (typically device drivers) include their own
628.Em #ifdef XXX_DEBUG
629conditionals instead.
630This option also turns on certain other options,
631which may decrease system performance.
632Systems with this option are not suitable for regular use, and are
633intended only for debugging or looking for bugs.
634.It Cd options DIAGNOSTIC
635Adds code to the kernel that does internal consistency checks.
636This code will cause the kernel to panic if corruption of internal data
637structures is detected.
638Historically, the performance degradation is sufficiently small that
639it is reasonable for systems with
640.Em options DIAGNOSTIC
641to be in production use, with the real consideration not being
642performance but instead a preference for more panics versus continued
643operation with undetected problems.
644.It Cd options LOCKDEBUG
645Adds code to the kernel to detect incorrect use of locking primitives
646(mutex, rwlock).
647This code will cause the kernel to check for dead lock conditions.
648It will also check for memory being freed to not contain initialised
649lock primitives.
650Functions for use in
651.Xr ddb 4
652to check lock chains etc. are also enabled.
653These checks are very expensive and can decrease performance on
654multi-processor machines by a factor of three.
655.It Cd options KDTRACE_HOOKS
656Adds hooks for the DTrace tracing facility, which allows users to
657analyze many aspects of system and application behavior.
658See
659.Xr dtrace 1
660for details.
661.It Cd options KSTACK_CHECK_MAGIC
662Check kernel stack usage and panic if stack overflow is detected.
663This check is performance sensitive because it scans stack on each context
664switch.
665.It Cd options KTRACE
666Add hooks for the system call tracing facility, which allows users to
667watch the system call invocation behavior of processes.
668See
669.Xr ktrace 1
670for details.
671.It Cd options MSGBUFSIZE=integer
672This option sets the size of the kernel message buffer in bytes.
673This buffer holds the kernel output of
674.Fn printf
675when not (yet) read by
676.Xr syslogd 8 .
677This is particularly useful when the system has crashed and you wish to lookup
678the kernel output from just before the crash.
679Also, since the autoconfig output becomes more and more verbose,
680it sometimes happens that the message buffer overflows before
681.Xr syslogd 8
682was able to read it.
683Note that not all systems are capable of obtaining a variable sized message
684buffer.
685There are also some systems on which memory contents are not preserved
686across reboots.
687.It Cd options KERNHIST
688Enables the kernel history logs, which create in-memory traces of
689various kernel activities.
690These logs can be displayed by using
691.Cm show kernhist
692from DDB.
693See the kernel source file
694.Pa sys/kern/kern_history.c
695and the
696.Xr kernhist 9
697manual for details.
698.It Cd options KERNHIST_PRINT
699Prints the kernel history logs on the system console as entries are added.
700Note that the output is
701.Em extremely
702voluminous, so this option is really only useful for debugging
703the very earliest parts of kernel initialization.
704.It Cd options UVMHIST
705Like
706.Em KERNHIST ,
707it enables the UVM history logs.
708These logs can be displayed by using
709.Cm show kernhist
710from DDB.
711See the kernel source file
712.Pa sys/uvm/uvm_stat.c
713for details.
714.It Cd options UVMHIST_PRINT
715Like
716.Em UVMHIST ,
717it prints the UVM history logs on the system console as entries are added.
718Note that the output is
719.Em extremely
720voluminous, so this option is really only useful for debugging
721the very earliest parts of kernel initialization.
722.It Cd options UVMHIST_MAPHIST_SIZE
723Set the size of the
724.Dq maphist
725kernel history.
726The default is 100.
727This option depends upon the
728.Em UVMHIST
729option.
730.It Cd options UVMHIST_PDHIST_SIZE
731Set the size of the
732.Dq pdhist
733kernel history.
734The default is 100.
735This option depends upon the
736.Em UVMHIST
737option.
738.It Cd options BIOHIST
739Like
740.Em KERNHIST ,
741it enables the BIO history logs.
742These logs can be displayed by using
743.Cm show kernhist
744from DDB, and can help in debugging problems with Buffered I/O operations.
745See the kernel source file
746.Pa sys/kern/vfs_vio.c
747for details.
748.It Cd options BIOHIST_PRINT
749Like
750.Em BIOHIST ,
751it prints the BIO history logs on the system console as entries are added.
752Note that the output is
753.Em extremely
754voluminous, so this option is really only useful for debugging
755the very earliest parts of kernel initialization.
756.It Cd options BIOHIST_SIZE
757Set the size of the
758.Dq biohist
759kernel history.
760The default is 500.
761This option depends upon the
762.Em BIOHIST
763option.
764.El
765.Ss File Systems
766.Bl -ohang
767.It Cd file-system FFS
768Includes code implementing the Berkeley Fast File System
769.Po Em FFS Pc .
770Most machines need this if they are not running diskless.
771.It Cd file-system EXT2FS
772Includes code implementing the Second Extended File System
773.Po Em ext2 Pc ,
774revision 0 and revision 1 with the
775.Em filetype ,
776.Em sparse_super
777and
778.Em large_file
779options.
780This is the most commonly used file system on the Linux operating system,
781and is provided here for compatibility.
782Some of the specific features of
783.Em ext2
784like the "behavior on errors" are not implemented.
785See
786.Xr mount_ext2fs 8
787for details.
788.It Cd file-system LFS
789.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL
790Include the Log-structured File System
791.Po Em LFS Pc .
792See
793.Xr mount_lfs 8
794and
795.Xr newfs_lfs 8
796for details.
797.It Cd file-system MFS
798Include the Memory File System
799.Po Em MFS Pc .
800This file system stores files in swappable memory, and produces
801notable performance improvements when it is used as the file store
802for
803.Pa /tmp
804and similar file systems.
805See
806.Xr mount_mfs 8
807for details.
808.It Cd file-system NFS
809Include the client side of the Network File System (NFS)
810remote file sharing protocol.
811Although the bulk of the code implementing NFS
812is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to work.
813See
814.Xr mount_nfs 8
815for details.
816.It Cd file-system CD9660
817Includes code for the ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge file system, which is
818the standard file system on many CD-ROM discs.
819Useful primarily if you have a CD-ROM drive.
820See
821.Xr mount_cd9660 8
822for details.
823.It Cd file-system MSDOSFS
824Includes the MS-DOS FAT file system, which is reportedly still used
825by unfortunate people who have not heard about
826.Nx .
827Also implements the Windows 95 extensions to the same, which permit
828the use of longer, mixed case file names.
829See
830.Xr mount_msdos 8
831and
832.Xr fsck_msdos 8
833for details.
834.It Cd file-system NTFS
835.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL
836Includes code for the Microsoft Windows NT file system.
837See
838.Xr mount_ntfs 8
839for details.
840.It Cd file-system FDESC
841Includes code for a file system, conventionally mounted on
842.Pa /dev/fd ,
843which permits access to the per-process file descriptor space via
844special files in the file system.
845See
846.Xr mount_fdesc 8
847for details.
848Note that this facility is redundant, and thus unneeded on most
849.Nx
850systems, since the
851.Xr fd 4
852pseudo-device driver already provides identical functionality.
853On most
854.Nx
855systems, instances of
856.Xr fd 4
857are mknoded under
858.Pa /dev/fd/
859and on
860.Pa /dev/stdin ,
861.Pa /dev/stdout ,
862and
863.Pa /dev/stderr .
864.It Cd file-system KERNFS
865Includes code which permits the mounting of a special file system
866(normally mounted on
867.Pa /kern )
868in which files representing various kernel variables and parameters
869may be found.
870See
871.Xr mount_kernfs 8
872for details.
873.It Cd file-system NULLFS
874Includes code for a loopback file system.
875This permits portions of the file hierarchy to be re-mounted in other places.
876The code really exists to provide an example of a stackable file system layer.
877See
878.Xr mount_null 8
879for details.
880.It Cd file-system OVERLAY
881Includes code for a file system filter.
882This permits the overlay file system to intercept all access to an underlying
883file system.
884This file system is intended to serve as an example of a stacking file
885system which has a need to interpose itself between an underlying file
886system and all other access.
887See
888.Xr mount_overlay 8
889for details.
890.It Cd file-system PROCFS
891Includes code for a special file system (conventionally mounted on
892.Pa /proc )
893in which the process space becomes visible in the file system.
894Among
895other things, the memory spaces of processes running on the system are
896visible as files, and signals may be sent to processes by writing to
897.Pa ctl
898files in the procfs namespace.
899See
900.Xr mount_procfs 8
901for details.
902.It Cd file-system UDF
903.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL
904Includes code for the UDF file system commonly found on CD and DVD
905media but also on USB sticks.
906Currently supports read and write access up to UDF 2.01 and somewhat limited
907write support for UDF 2.50.
908It is marked experimental since there is no
909.Xr fsck_udf 8 .
910See
911.Xr mount_udf 8
912for details.
913.It Cd file-system UMAPFS
914Includes a loopback file system in which user and group IDs may be
915remapped \(em this can be useful when mounting alien file systems with
916different UIDs and GIDs than the local system.
917See
918.Xr mount_umap 8
919for details.
920.It Cd file-system UNION
921.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL
922Includes code for the union file system, which permits directories to
923be mounted on top of each other in such a way that both file systems
924remain visible \(em this permits tricks like allowing writing (and the
925deleting of files) on a read-only file system like a CD-ROM by
926mounting a local writable file system on top of the read-only file
927system.
928See
929.Xr mount_union 8
930for details.
931.It Cd file-system CODA
932.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL
933Includes code for the Coda file system.
934Coda is a distributed file system like NFS and AFS.
935It is freely available, like NFS, but it functions much like AFS in being a
936.Dq stateful
937file system.
938Both Coda and AFS cache files on your local machine to improve performance.
939Then Coda goes a step further than AFS by letting you access the cached
940files when there is no available network, viz. disconnected laptops and
941network outages.
942In Coda, both the client and server are outside the kernel which makes
943them easier to experiment with.
944Coda is available for several UNIX and non-UNIX platforms.
945See
946.Lk http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu
947for more details.
948.Em NOTE :
949You also need to enable the pseudo-device, vcoda, for the Coda
950file system to work.
951.It Cd file-system PTYFS
952Includes code for a special file system (normally mounted on
953.Pa /dev/pts )
954in which pseudo-terminal slave devices become visible in the file system.
955See
956.Xr mount_ptyfs 8
957for details.
958.It Cd file-system TMPFS
959Includes code for the efficient memory file system, normally used over
960.Pa /tmp .
961See
962.Xr mount_tmpfs 8
963for details.
964.It Cd file-system PUFFS
965Includes kernel support for the pass-to-userspace framework file system.
966It can be used to implement file system functionality in userspace.
967See
968.Xr puffs 3
969for more details.
970This enables for example sshfs:
971.Xr mount_psshfs 8 .
972.El
973.Ss File System Options
974.Bl -ohang
975.It Cd options DISKLABEL_EI
976Enable
977.Dq Endian-Independent
978.Xr disklabel 5
979support.
980This allows a system to recognize a disklabel written in the other byte order.
981For writing, when a label already exists, its byte order is preserved.
982Otherwise, a new label is written in the native byte order.
983To specify the byte order explicitly, the
984.Fl F
985option of
986.Xr disklabel 8
987should be used with the
988.Fl B
989option in order to avoid using
990.Xr ioctl 2 ,
991which results in the default behavior explained above.
992At the moment this option is restricted to the following ports:
993amd64, bebox, emips, epoc32, evbarm, i386, ibmnws, landisk, mvmeppc, prep,
994.\" riscv,
995rs6000, sandpoint,
996.\" usermode,
997xen, and zaurus;
998also to machines of the
999evbmips and evbppc ports that support
1000Master Boot Record (MBR).
1001.It Cd options MAGICLINKS
1002Enables the expansion of special strings
1003.Po
1004beginning with
1005.Dq @
1006.Pc
1007when traversing symbolic links.
1008See
1009.Xr symlink 7
1010for a list of supported strings.
1011Note that this option only controls the enabling of this feature
1012by the kernel at boot-up.
1013This feature can still be manipulated with the
1014.Xr sysctl 8
1015command regardless of the setting of this option.
1016.It Cd options NFSSERVER
1017Include the server side of the
1018.Em NFS
1019(Network File System) remote file sharing protocol.
1020Although the bulk of the code implementing
1021.Em NFS
1022is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to
1023work.
1024See
1025.Xr mountd 8
1026and
1027.Xr nfsd 8
1028for details.
1029.It Cd options NVNODE=integer
1030This option sets the size of the cache used by the name-to-inode translation
1031routines, (a.k.a. the
1032.Fn namei
1033cache, though called by many other names in the kernel source).
1034By default, this cache has
1035.Dv ( NPROC + NTEXT + 100 )
1036entries (NPROC set as 20 + 16 * MAXUSERS and NTEXT as 80 + NPROC / 8).
1037A reasonable way to derive a value of
1038.Dv NVNODE ,
1039should you notice a large number of namei cache misses with a tool such as
1040.Xr systat 1 ,
1041is to examine your system's current computed value with
1042.Xr sysctl 8 ,
1043(which calls this parameter "kern.maxvnodes") and to increase this value
1044until either the namei cache hit rate improves or it is determined that
1045your system does not benefit substantially from an increase in the size of
1046the namei cache.
1047.It Cd options NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE
1048Causes the namei cache to always enter a reverse mapping (vnode -> name)
1049as well as a normal one.
1050Normally, this is already done for directory vnodes, to speed up the getcwd
1051operation.
1052This option will cause longer hash chains in the reverse cache, and thus
1053slow down getcwd somewhat.
1054However, it does make vnode -> path translations possible in some cases.
1055For now, only useful if strict
1056.Pa /proc/#/maps
1057emulation for Linux binaries is required.
1058.El
1059.Ss Options for FFS/UFS File Systems
1060.Bl -ohang
1061.It Cd options APPLE_UFS
1062Enable support for UFS file systems created on Mac OS X.
1063.It Cd options FFS_EI
1064Enable
1065.Dq Endian-Independent
1066FFS support.
1067This allows a system to mount an FFS file system created for another
1068architecture, at a small performance cost for all FFS file systems.
1069See also
1070.Xr newfs 8 ,
1071.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
1072.Xr dumpfs 8
1073for file system byte order status and manipulation.
1074.It Cd options FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT
1075Disable support for the creation of file system internal snapshot
1076of FFS file systems.
1077Maybe useful for install media kernels, small memory systems and
1078embedded systems which don't require the snapshot support.
1079.It Cd options QUOTA
1080Enables kernel support for traditional quotas in FFS.
1081Traditional quotas store the quota information in external files and
1082require
1083.Xr quotacheck 8
1084and
1085.Xr quotaon 8
1086at boot time.
1087Traditional quotas are limited to 32-bit sizes and are at this point
1088considered a legacy feature.
1089.It Cd options QUOTA2
1090Enables kernel support for in-volume quotas in FFS.
1091The quota information is file system metadata maintained by
1092.Xr fsck 8
1093and/or WAPBL journaling.
1094MFS volumes can also use
1095.Dv QUOTA2
1096quotas; see
1097.Xr mount_mfs 8
1098for more information.
1099.It Cd options UFS_DIRHASH
1100Increase lookup performance by maintaining in-core hash tables
1101for large directories.
1102.It Cd options UFS_EXTATTR
1103Enable extended attribute support for UFS1 file systems.
1104.It Cd options WAPBL
1105Enable
1106.Dq Write Ahead Physical Block Logging file system journaling .
1107This provides rapid file system consistency checking after a system outage.
1108It also provides better general use performance over regular FFS.
1109See also
1110.Xr wapbl 4 .
1111.El
1112.Ss Options for the LFS File System
1113.Bl -ohang
1114.\" .It Cd options LFS_KERNEL_RFW
1115.\" There is no documentation for this. (XXX)
1116.\" .It Cd options LFS_QUOTA
1117.\" Enable traditional quota support for LFS.
1118.\" (It is not clear if this works.)
1119.\" .It Cd options LFS_QUOTA2
1120.\" Enable modernized 64-bit quota support for LFS.
1121.\" (This does not work yet.)
1122.It Cd options LFS_EI
1123Enable
1124.Dq Endian-Independent
1125LFS support.
1126This allows (at a small performance cost) mounting an LFS file system
1127created for another architecture.
1128.\" .It Cd options LFS_EXTATTR
1129.\" Enable extended attribute support for LFS.
1130.\" (It is not clear if this works.)
1131.It Cd options LFS_DIRHASH
1132Increase lookup performance by maintaining in-core hash tables
1133for large directories.
1134.El
1135.Ss Options for the ext2fs File System
1136.Bl -ohang
1137.It Cd options EXT2FS_SYSTEM_FLAGS
1138This option changes the behavior of the APPEND and IMMUTABLE flags
1139for a file on an
1140.Em ext2
1141file system.
1142Without this option, the superuser or owner of the file can
1143set and clear them.
1144With this option, only the superuser can set them, and
1145they can't be cleared if the securelevel is greater than 0.
1146See also
1147.Xr chflags 1
1148and
1149.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9 .
1150.El
1151.Ss Options for the NFS File System
1152.Bl -ohang
1153.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP
1154Enable use of the BOOTP protocol (RFCs 951 and 1048) to get configuration
1155information if NFS is used to mount the root file system.
1156See
1157.Xr diskless 8
1158for details.
1159.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTSTATIC
1160Enable use of static values defined as
1161.Dq NFS_BOOTSTATIC_MYIP ,
1162.Dq NFS_BOOTSTATIC_GWIP ,
1163.Dq NFS_BOOTSTATIC_SERVADDR ,
1164and
1165.Dq NFS_BOOTSTATIC_SERVER
1166in kernel options to get configuration information
1167if NFS is used to mount the root file system.
1168.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_DHCP
1169Same as
1170.Dq NFS_BOOT_BOOTP ,
1171but use the DHCP extensions to the
1172BOOTP protocol (RFC 1541).
1173.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP_REQFILE
1174Specifies the string sent in the bp_file field of the BOOTP/DHCP
1175request packet.
1176.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM
1177Enable use of the BOOTPARAM protocol, consisting of RARP and
1178BOOTPARAM RPC, to get configuration information if NFS
1179is used to mount the root file system.
1180See
1181.Xr diskless 8
1182for details.
1183.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=value
1184Set the initial NFS read and write sizes for diskless-boot requests.
1185The normal default is 8Kbytes.
1186This option provides a way to lower the value (e.g., to 1024 bytes)
1187as a workaround for buggy network interface cards or boot PROMs.
1188Once booted, the read and write request sizes can be increased by
1189remounting the file system.
1190See
1191.Xr mount_nfs 8
1192for details.
1193.It Cd options NFS_V2_ONLY
1194Reduce the size of the NFS client code by omitting code that's only required
1195for NFSv3 and NQNFS support, leaving only that code required to use NFSv2
1196servers.
1197.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_UDP
1198Use NFS over UDP instead of the default TCP, for mounting root.
1199.El
1200.Ss Buffer queue strategy options
1201The following options enable alternative buffer queue strategies.
1202.Bl -ohang
1203.It Cd options BUFQ_READPRIO
1204Enable alternate buffer queue strategy for disk I/O.
1205In the default strategy, outstanding disk requests are ordered by
1206sector number and sent to the disk, regardless of whether the
1207operation is a read or write; this option gives priority to issuing
1208read requests over write requests.
1209Although requests may therefore be issued out of sector-order, causing
1210more seeks and thus lower overall throughput, interactive system
1211responsiveness under heavy disk I/O load may be improved, as processes
1212blocking on disk reads are serviced sooner (file writes typically
1213don't cause applications to block).
1214The performance effect varies greatly depending on the hardware, drive
1215firmware, file system configuration, workload, and desired performance
1216trade-off.
1217Systems using drive write-cache (most modern IDE disks, by default)
1218are unlikely to benefit and may well suffer; such disks acknowledge
1219writes very quickly, and optimize them internally according to
1220physical layout.
1221Giving these disks as many requests to work with as possible (the
1222standard strategy) will typically produce the best results, especially
1223if the drive has a large cache; the drive will silently complete
1224writes from cache as it seeks for reads.
1225Disks that support a large number of concurrent tagged requests (SCSI
1226disks and many hardware RAID controllers) expose this internal
1227scheduling with tagged responses, and don't block for reads; such
1228disks may not see a noticeable difference with either strategy.
1229However, if IDE disks are run with write-cache disabled for safety,
1230writes are not acknowledged until actually completed, and only one
1231request can be outstanding; a large number of small writes in one
1232locality can keep the disk busy, starving reads elsewhere on the disk.
1233Such systems are likely to see the most benefit from this option.
1234Finally, the performance interaction of this option with ffs soft
1235dependencies can be subtle, as that mechanism can drastically alter
1236the workload for file system metadata writes.
1237.It Cd options BUFQ_PRIOCSCAN
1238Enable another buffer queue strategy for disk I/O, per-priority cyclical scan.
1239.It Cd options NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
1240Synonym of
1241.Em BUFQ_READPRIO .
1242.El
1243.Ss Miscellaneous Options
1244.Bl -ohang
1245.It Cd options CPU_UCODE
1246Support cpu microcode loading via
1247.Xr cpuctl 8 .
1248.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_DYNAMIC
1249This option makes the
1250.Xr md 4
1251RAM disk size dynamically sized.
1252It is incompatible with
1253.Xr mdsetimage 8 .
1254.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS
1255This option allows for some machine dependent functions to be called when
1256the
1257.Xr md 4
1258RAM disk driver is configured.
1259This can result in automatically loading a RAM disk from floppy on
1260open (among other things).
1261.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT
1262Forces the
1263.Xr md 4
1264RAM disk to be the root device.
1265This can only be overridden when
1266the kernel is booted in the 'ask-for-root' mode.
1267.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=integer
1268Allocates the given number of 512 byte blocks as memory for the
1269.Xr md 4
1270RAM disk, to be populated with
1271.Xr mdsetimage 8 .
1272.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0
1273Do not include the interface to a userland memory disk server process.
1274Per default, this option is set to 1, including the support code.
1275Useful for install media kernels.
1276.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_RBFLAGS=value
1277This option sets the
1278.Xr reboot 2
1279flags used when booting with a memory disk as root file system.
1280Possible values include
1281.Dv RB_AUTOBOOT
1282(boot in the usual fashion - default value), and
1283.Dv RB_SINGLE
1284(boot in single-user mode).
1285.It Cd options MODULAR
1286Enables the framework for kernel modules (see
1287.Xr module 7 ) .
1288.It Cd options MODULAR_DEFAULT_AUTOLOAD
1289Enables the autoloading of kernel modules by default.
1290This sets the default value of the
1291.Em kern.module.autoload
1292.Xr sysctl 3
1293variable which may be changed at run time.
1294.It Cd options MODULAR_DEFAULT_VERBOSE
1295Enables verbose debug messages of kernel modules by default.
1296This sets the default value of the
1297.Em kern.module.verbose
1298.Xr sysctl 3
1299variable which may be changed at run time.
1300.It Cd options VND_COMPRESSION
1301Enables the
1302.Xr vnd 4
1303driver to also handle compressed images.
1304See
1305.Xr vndcompress 1 ,
1306.Xr vnd 4
1307and
1308.Xr vnconfig 8
1309for more information.
1310.It Cd options SELFRELOC
1311Make the kernel able to self relocate at bootstrap, so that it can
1312run whatever its load address is.
1313This is intented to be used withe the
1314.Ic reloc
1315boostrap command documented in
1316.Xr x86/boot 8 ,
1317to workaround UEFI bugs, and is only available on amd64.
1318.It Cd options SPLDEBUG
1319Help the kernel programmer find bugs related to the interrupt priority
1320level.
1321When
1322.Fn spllower
1323or
1324.Fn splraise
1325changes the current CPU's interrupt priority level to or from
1326.Dv IPL_HIGH ,
1327record a backtrace.
1328Read
1329.Xr i386/return_address 9
1330for caveats about collecting backtraces.
1331This feature is experimental, and it is only available on i386.
1332See
1333.Pa sys/kern/subr_spldebug.c .
1334.It Cd options TFTPROOT
1335Download the root memory disk through TFTP at root mount time.
1336This enables the use of a root RAM disk without requiring it to be
1337embedded in the kernel using
1338.Xr mdsetimage 8 .
1339The RAM disk name is obtained using DHCP's filename parameter.
1340This option requires
1341.Em MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS
1342and
1343.Em MEMORY_DISK_DYNAMIC .
1344It is incompatible with
1345.Em MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE .
1346.It Cd options HEARTBEAT
1347Turns on heartbeat checks to panic if any CPU in the system or the
1348timecounter appears stuck.
1349.Pp
1350Each CPU will periodically check in hard interrupt context that the
1351timecounter has advanced and soft interrupts have run on the current
1352CPU, and each CPU will also be periodically checked for progress by
1353another CPU.
1354.Pp
1355If a CPU detects no progress has been made after
1356.Dv HEARTBEAT_MAX_PERIOD
1357seconds,
1358.Nx
1359will panic, giving the opportunity to enter ddb or get a crash dump
1360even if the system has become totally unresponsive to keyboard input.
1361.Pp
1362This is different from a hardware watchdog timer
1363.Pq Xr wdogctl 8 :
1364.Bl -bullet
1365.It
1366.Cd options HEARTBEAT
1367is purely a software mechanism, so if hard interrupts are stuck on all
1368CPUs, then
1369.Cd options HEARTBEAT
1370cannot trigger, but a hardware watchdog timer can.
1371.It
1372A hardware watchdog timer won't notice if a single CPU is stuck, or if
1373the system timecounter is stuck, as long as at least one CPU is not
1374stuck and able to run
1375.Xr wdogctl 8
1376or the kernel watchdog tickle thread.
1377In contrast,
1378.Cd options HEARTBEAT
1379uses hard interrupts on each CPU to cross-check soft interrupt progress
1380on another CPU as well as the timecounter, so it can detect when a
1381single CPU is unable to make progress when others are able.
1382.El
1383.It Cd options HEARTBEAT_MAX_PERIOD_DEFAULT=integer
1384Time in seconds since the last
1385.Cd options HEARTBEAT
1386progress check has passed before it will trigger a panic.
1387Default: 15.
1388.Pp
1389Can be changed at runtime via the
1390.Li kern.heartbeat.max_period
1391.Xr sysctl 7
1392knob.
1393.It Cd options HZ=integer
1394On ports that support it, set the system clock frequency (see
1395.Xr hz 9 )
1396to the supplied value.
1397Handle with care.
1398.It Cd options NTP
1399Turns on in-kernel precision timekeeping support used by software
1400implementing
1401.Em NTP
1402(Network Time Protocol, RFC 1305).
1403The
1404.Em NTP
1405option adds an in-kernel Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) for normal
1406.Em NTP
1407operation, and a Frequency-Locked Loop (FLL) for intermittently-connected
1408operation.
1409.Xr ntpd 8
1410will employ a user-level PLL when kernel support is unavailable,
1411but the in-kernel version has lower latency and more precision, and
1412so typically keeps much better time.
1413.Pp
1414The interface to the kernel
1415.Em NTP
1416support is provided by the
1417.Xr ntp_adjtime 2
1418and
1419.Xr ntp_gettime 2
1420system calls, which are intended for use by
1421.Xr ntpd 8
1422and are enabled by the option.
1423On systems with sub-microsecond resolution timers, or where (HZ/100000)
1424is not an integer, the
1425.Em NTP
1426option also enables extended-precision arithmetic to keep track of
1427fractional clock ticks at NTP time-format precision.
1428.It Cd options PPS_SYNC
1429This option enables a kernel serial line discipline for receiving time
1430phase signals from an external reference clock such as a radio clock.
1431.Po
1432The
1433.Em NTP
1434option (which see) must be on if the
1435.Em PPS_SYNC
1436option is used
1437.Pc .
1438Some reference clocks generate a Pulse Per Second (PPS) signal in
1439phase with their time source.
1440The
1441.Em PPS
1442line discipline receives this signal on either the data leads
1443or the DCD control lead of a serial port.
1444.Pp
1445.Em NTP
1446uses the PPS signal to discipline the local clock oscillator to a high
1447degree of precision (typically less than 50 microseconds in time and
14480.1 ppm in accuracy).
1449.Em PPS
1450can also generate a serial output pulse when the system receives a PPS
1451interrupt.
1452This can be used to measure the system interrupt latency and thus calibrate
1453.Em NTP
1454to account for it.
1455Using
1456.Em PPS
1457usually requires a gadget box
1458to convert from TTL to RS-232 signal levels.
1459The gadget box and PPS are described in more detail in the HTML documentation
1460for
1461.Xr ntpd 8
1462in
1463.Pa /usr/share/doc/html/ntp .
1464.Pp
1465.Nx
1466currently supports this option in
1467.Xr com 4
1468and
1469.Xr zsc 4 .
1470.It Cd options SETUIDSCRIPTS
1471Allows scripts with the setuid bit set to execute as the effective
1472user rather than the real user, just like binary executables.
1473.Pp
1474.Em NOTE :
1475Using this option will also enable
1476.Em options FDSCRIPTS
1477.It Cd options FDSCRIPTS
1478Allows execution of scripts with the execute bit set, but not the
1479read bit, by opening the file and passing the file descriptor to
1480the shell, rather than the filename.
1481.Pp
1482.Em NOTE :
1483Execute only (non-readable) scripts will have
1484.Va argv[0]
1485set to
1486.Pa /dev/fd/* .
1487What this option allows as far as security is
1488concerned, is the ability to safely ensure that the correct script
1489is run by the interpreter, as it is passed as an already open file.
1490.It Cd options RTC_OFFSET=integer
1491The kernel (and typically the hardware battery backed-up clock on
1492those machines that have one) keeps time in
1493.Em UTC
1494(Universal Coordinated Time, once known as
1495.Em GMT ,
1496or Greenwich Mean Time)
1497and not in the time of the local time zone.
1498The
1499.Em RTC_OFFSET
1500option is used on some ports (such as the i386) to tell the kernel
1501that the hardware clock is offset from
1502.Em UTC
1503by the specified number of minutes.
1504This is typically used when a machine boots several operating
1505systems and one of them wants the hardware clock to run in the
1506local time zone and not in
1507.Em UTC ,
1508e.g.
1509.Em RTC_OFFSET=300
1510means
1511the hardware clock is set to US Eastern Time (300 minutes behind
1512.Em UTC ) ,
1513and not
1514.Em UTC .
1515(Note:
1516.Em RTC_OFFSET
1517is used to initialize a kernel variable named
1518.Va rtc_offset
1519which is the source actually used to determine the clock offset, and
1520which may be accessed via the kern.rtc_offset sysctl variable.
1521See
1522.Xr sysctl 8
1523and
1524.Xr sysctl 3
1525for details.
1526Since the kernel clock is initialized from the hardware clock very
1527early in the boot process, it is not possible to meaningfully change
1528.Va rtc_offset
1529in system initialization scripts.
1530Changing this value currently may only be done at kernel compile
1531time or by patching the kernel and rebooting).
1532.Pp
1533.Em NOTE :
1534Unfortunately, in many cases where the hardware clock
1535is kept in local time, it is adjusted for Daylight Savings
1536Time; this means that attempting to use
1537.Em RTC_OFFSET
1538to let
1539.Nx
1540coexist with such an operating system, like Windows,
1541would necessitate changing
1542.Em RTC_OFFSET
1543twice a year.
1544As such, this solution is imperfect.
1545.It Cd options MAXUPRC=integer
1546Sets the soft
1547.Dv RLIMIT_NPROC
1548resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of simultaneous
1549processes a user is permitted to run, for process 0;
1550this value is inherited by its child processes.
1551It defaults to
1552.Em CHILD_MAX ,
1553which is currently defined to be 160.
1554Setting
1555.Em MAXUPRC
1556to a value less than
1557.Em CHILD_MAX
1558is not permitted, as this would result in a violation of the semantics of
1559.St -p1003.1-90 .
1560.It Cd options NOFILE=integer
1561Sets the soft
1562.Dv RLIMIT_NOFILE
1563resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of open
1564file descriptors for each process;
1565this value is inherited by its child processes.
1566It defaults to
1567.Em OPEN_MAX ,
1568which is currently defined to be 128.
1569.It Cd options MAXFILES=integer
1570Sets the default value of the
1571.Em kern.maxfiles
1572sysctl variable, which indicates the maximum number of files that may
1573be open in the system.
1574.It Cd options DEFCORENAME=string
1575Sets the default value of the
1576.Em kern.defcorename
1577sysctl variable, otherwise it is set to
1578.Nm %n.core .
1579See
1580.Xr sysctl 8
1581and
1582.Xr sysctl 3
1583for details.
1584.It Cd options RASOPS_CLIPPING
1585Enables clipping within the
1586.Nm rasops
1587raster-console output system.
1588.Em NOTE :
1589only available on architectures that use
1590.Nm rasops
1591for console output.
1592.It Cd options RASOPS_SMALL
1593Removes optimized character writing code from the
1594.Nm rasops
1595raster-console output system.
1596.Em NOTE :
1597only available on architectures that use
1598.Nm rasops
1599for console output.
1600.It Cd options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
1601Embeds the kernel config file used to define the kernel in the kernel
1602binary itself.
1603The embedded data also includes any files directly included by the config
1604file itself, e.g.
1605.Pa GENERIC.local
1606or
1607.Pa std.$MACHINE .
1608The embedded config file can be extracted from the resulting kernel with
1609.Xr config 1
1610.Fl x ,
1611or by the following command:
1612.Bd -literal -offset indent
1613strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis
1614.Ed
1615.It Cd options INCLUDE_JUST_CONFIG
1616Similar to the above option, but includes just the actual config file,
1617not any included files.
1618.It Cd options PIPE_SOCKETPAIR
1619Use slower, but smaller socketpair(2)-based pipe implementation instead
1620of default faster, but bigger one.
1621Primarily useful for installation kernels.
1622.It Cd options USERCONF
1623Compiles in the in-kernel device configuration manager.
1624See
1625.Xr userconf 4
1626for details.
1627.It Cd options SCDEBUG_DEFAULT
1628Used with the
1629.Cd options SYSCALL_DEBUG
1630described below to choose which types of events are displayed.
1631.Pp
1632.Bl -tag -width "SCDEBUG_KERNHIST" -compact -offset indent
1633.It Dv SCDEBUG_CALLS
1634Show system call entry points.
1635.It Dv SCDEBUG_RETURNS
1636Show system call exit points.
1637.It Dv SCDEBUG_ALL
1638Show all system call requests, including unimplemented calls.
1639.It Dv SCDEBUG_SHOWARGS
1640Show the arguments provided.
1641.It Dv SCDEBUG_KERNHIST
1642Store a restricted form of the system call debug in a kernel history
1643instead of printing it to the console.
1644This option relies upon
1645.Cd options KERNHIST .
1646.El
1647.Pp
1648The default value is
1649.Dv (SCDEBUG_CALLS|SCDEBUG_RETURNS|SCDEBUG_SHOWARGS) .
1650.It Cd options SYSCALL_DEBUG
1651Useful for debugging system call issues, usually in early single user bringup.
1652By default, writes entries to the system console for most system call events.
1653Can be configured with the
1654.Cd options SCDEBUG_DEFAULT
1655option to to use the
1656.Cd options KERNHIST
1657facility instead.
1658.It Cd options SYSCALL_STATS
1659Count the number of times each system call number is called.
1660The values can be read through the sysctl interface and displayed using
1661.Xr systat 1 .
1662.Em NOTE :
1663not yet available on all architectures.
1664.It Cd options SYSCALL_TIMES
1665Count the time spent (using
1666.Fn cpu_counter32 )
1667in each system call.
1668.Em NOTE :
1669Using this option will also enable
1670.Cd options SYSCALL_STATS .
1671.It Cd options SYSCALL_TIMES_HASCOUNTER
1672Force use of
1673.Fn cpu_counter32
1674even if
1675.Fn cpu_hascounter
1676reports false.
1677Useful for systems where the cycle counter doesn't run at a constant rate
1678(e.g. Soekris boxes).
1679.It Cd options XSERVER_DDB
1680A supplement to XSERVER that adds support for entering
1681.Xr ddb 4
1682while in X11.
1683.It Cd options FILEASSOC
1684Support for
1685.Xr fileassoc 9 .
1686Required for
1687.Cd options PAX_SEGVGUARD
1688and
1689.Cd pseudo-device veriexec .
1690.It Cd options FILEASSOC_NHOOKS=integer
1691Number of storage slots per file for
1692.Xr fileassoc 9 .
1693Default is 4.
1694.El
1695.Ss Networking Options
1696.Bl -ohang
1697.It Cd options GATEWAY
1698Enables
1699.Em IPFORWARDING
1700and (on most ports) increases the size of
1701.Em NMBCLUSTERS .
1702In general,
1703.Em GATEWAY
1704is used to indicate that a system should act as a router, and
1705.Em IPFORWARDING
1706is not invoked directly.
1707(Note that
1708.Em GATEWAY
1709has no impact on protocols other than IP).
1710.Em GATEWAY
1711option also compiles IPv4 and IPv6 fast forwarding code into the kernel.
1712.It Cd options IPFORWARDING=value
1713If
1714.Em value
1715is 1 this enables IP routing behavior.
1716If
1717.Em value
1718is 0 (the default), it disables it.
1719The
1720.Em GATEWAY
1721option sets this to 1 automatically.
1722With this option enabled, the machine will forward IP datagrams destined
1723for other machines between its interfaces.
1724Note that even without this option, the kernel will
1725still forward some packets (such as source routed packets) \(em removing
1726.Em GATEWAY
1727and
1728.Em IPFORWARDING
1729is insufficient to stop all routing through a bastion host on a
1730firewall \(em source routing is controlled independently.
1731Note that IP forwarding may be turned on and off independently of the
1732setting of the
1733.Em IPFORWARDING
1734option through the use of the
1735.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding
1736sysctl variable.
1737If
1738.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding
1739is 1, IP forwarding is on.
1740See
1741.Xr sysctl 8
1742and
1743.Xr sysctl 3
1744for details.
1745.It Cd options IFA_STATS
1746Tells the kernel to maintain per-address statistics on bytes sent
1747and received over (currently) Internet and AppleTalk addresses.
1748.\"This can be a fairly expensive operation, so you probably want to
1749.\"keep this disabled.
1750The option is not recommended as it degrades system stability.
1751.It Cd options IFQ_MAXLEN=value
1752Increases the allowed size of the network interface packet queues.
1753The default queue size is 50 packets, and you do not normally need
1754to increase it.
1755.It Cd options IPSELSRC
1756Includes support for source-address selection policies.
1757See
1758.Xr in_getifa 9 .
1759.It Cd options MROUTING
1760Includes support for IP multicast routers.
1761You certainly want
1762.Em INET
1763with this.
1764Multicast routing is controlled by the
1765.Xr mrouted 8
1766daemon.
1767See also option
1768.Cd PIM .
1769.It Cd options PIM
1770Includes support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing.
1771You need
1772.Em MROUTING
1773and
1774.Em INET
1775with this.
1776Software using this can be found e.g. in
1777.Pa pkgsrc/net/xorp .
1778.It Cd options INET
1779Includes support for the TCP/IP protocol stack.
1780You almost certainly want this.
1781See
1782.Xr inet 4
1783for details.
1784.It Cd options INET6
1785Includes support for the IPv6 protocol stack.
1786See
1787.Xr inet6 4
1788for details.
1789Unlike
1790.Em INET ,
1791.Em INET6
1792enables multicast routing code as well.
1793This option requires
1794.Em INET
1795at this moment, but it should not.
1796.It Cd options ND6_DEBUG
1797The option sets the default value of net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug to 1,
1798for debugging IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol handling.
1799See
1800.Xr sysctl 3
1801for details.
1802.It Cd options IPSEC
1803Includes support for the IPsec protocol, using the implementation derived from
1804.Ox ,
1805relying on
1806.Xr opencrypto 9
1807to carry out cryptographic operations.
1808See
1809.Xr ipsec 4
1810for details.
1811.It Cd options IPSEC_DEBUG
1812Enables debugging code in IPsec stack.
1813See
1814.Xr ipsec 4
1815for details.
1816The
1817.Cd IPSEC
1818option includes support for IPsec Network Address Translator traversal
1819(NAT-T), as described in RFCs 3947 and 3948.
1820This feature might be patent-encumbered in some countries.
1821.It Cd options ALTQ
1822Enabled ALTQ (Alternate Queueing).
1823For simple rate-limiting, use
1824.Xr tbrconfig 8
1825to set up the interface transmission rate.
1826To use queueing disciplines, their appropriate kernel options should also
1827be defined (documented below).
1828Queueing disciplines are managed by
1829.Xr altqd 8 .
1830See
1831.Xr altq 9
1832for details.
1833.It Cd options ALTQ_HFSC
1834Include support for ALTQ-implemented HFSC (Hierarchical Fair Service Curve)
1835module.
1836HFSC supports both link-sharing and guaranteed real-time services.
1837HFSC employs a service curve based QoS model, and its unique feature
1838is an ability to decouple delay and bandwidth allocation.
1839Requires
1840.Em ALTQ_RED
1841to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or
1842.Em ALTQ_RIO
1843to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes.
1844This option assumes
1845.Em ALTQ .
1846.It Cd options ALTQ_PRIQ
1847Include support for ALTQ-implemented PRIQ (Priority Queueing).
1848PRIQ implements a simple priority-based queueing discipline.
1849A higher priority class is always served first.
1850Requires
1851.Em ALTQ_RED
1852to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or
1853.Em ALTQ_RIO
1854to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes.
1855This option assumes
1856.Em ALTQ .
1857.It Cd options ALTQ_WFQ
1858Include support for ALTQ-implemented WFQ (Weighted Fair Queueing).
1859WFQ implements a weighted-round robin scheduler for a set of queues.
1860A weight can be assigned to each queue to give a different proportion
1861of the link capacity.
1862A hash function is used to map a flow to one of a set of queues.
1863This option assumes
1864.Em ALTQ .
1865.It Cd options ALTQ_FIFOQ
1866Include support for ALTQ-implemented FIFO queueing.
1867FIFOQ is a simple drop-tail FIFO (First In, First Out) queueing discipline.
1868This option assumes
1869.Em ALTQ .
1870.It Cd options ALTQ_RIO
1871Include support for ALTQ-implemented RIO (RED with In/Out).
1872The original RIO has 2 sets of RED parameters; one for in-profile
1873packets and the other for out-of-profile packets.
1874At the ingress of the network, profile meters tag packets as IN or
1875OUT based on contracted profiles for customers.
1876Inside the network, IN packets receive preferential treatment by
1877the RIO dropper.
1878ALTQ/RIO has 3 drop precedence levels defined for the Assured Forwarding
1879PHB of DiffServ (RFC 2597).
1880This option assumes
1881.Em ALTQ .
1882.It Cd options ALTQ_BLUE
1883Include support for ALTQ-implemented Blue buffer management.
1884Blue is another active buffer management mechanism.
1885This option assumes
1886.Em ALTQ .
1887.It Cd options ALTQ_FLOWVALVE
1888Include support for ALTQ-implemented Flowvalve.
1889Flowvalve is a simple implementation of a RED penalty box that identifies
1890and punishes misbehaving flows.
1891This option requires
1892.Em ALTQ_RED
1893and assumes
1894.Em ALTQ .
1895.It Cd options ALTQ_CDNR
1896Include support for ALTQ-implemented CDNR (diffserv traffic conditioner)
1897packet marking/manipulation.
1898Traffic conditioners are components to meter, mark, or drop incoming
1899packets according to some rules.
1900As opposed to queueing disciplines, traffic conditioners handle incoming
1901packets at an input interface.
1902This option assumes
1903.Em ALTQ .
1904.It Cd options ALTQ_NOPCC
1905Disables use of processor cycle counter to measure time in ALTQ.
1906This option should be defined for a non-Pentium i386 CPU which does not
1907have TSC, SMP (per-CPU counters are not in sync), or power management
1908which affects processor cycle counter.
1909This option assumes
1910.Em ALTQ .
1911.It Cd options ALTQ_IPSEC
1912Include support for IPsec in IPv4 ALTQ.
1913This option assumes
1914.Em ALTQ .
1915.It Cd options ALTQ_JOBS
1916Include support for ALTQ-implemented JoBS (Joint Buffer Management
1917and Scheduling).
1918This option assumes
1919.Em ALTQ .
1920.It Cd options ALTQ_AFMAP
1921Include support for an undocumented ALTQ feature that is used to map an IP
1922flow to an ATM VC (Virtual Circuit).
1923This option assumes
1924.Em ALTQ .
1925.It Cd options ALTQ_LOCALQ
1926Include support for ALTQ-implemented local queues.
1927Its practical use is undefined.
1928Assumes
1929.Em ALTQ .
1930.It Cd options SUBNETSARELOCAL
1931Sets default value for net.inet.ip.subnetsarelocal variable, which
1932controls whether non-directly-connected subnets of connected networks
1933are considered "local" for purposes of choosing the MSS for a TCP
1934connection.
1935This is mostly present for historic reasons and completely irrelevant if
1936you enable Path MTU discovery.
1937.It Cd options HOSTZEROBROADCAST
1938Sets default value for net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast variable, which
1939controls whether the zeroth host address of each connected subnet is
1940also considered a broadcast address.
1941Default value is "1", for compatibility with old systems; if this is
1942set to zero on all hosts on a subnet, you should be able to fit an extra
1943host per subnet on the
1944".0" address.
1945.It Cd options MCLSHIFT=value
1946This option is the base-2 logarithm of the size of mbuf clusters.
1947The
1948.Bx
1949networking stack keeps network packets in a linked
1950list, or chain, of kernel buffer objects called mbufs.
1951The system provides larger mbuf clusters as an optimization for
1952large packets, instead of using long chains for large packets.
1953The mbuf cluster size,
1954or
1955.Em MCLBYTES ,
1956must be a power of two, and is computed as two raised to the power
1957.Em MCLSHIFT .
1958On systems with Ethernet network adapters,
1959.Em MCLSHIFT
1960is often set to 11, giving 2048-byte mbuf clusters, large enough to
1961hold a 1500-byte Ethernet frame in a single cluster.
1962Systems with network interfaces supporting larger frame sizes like
1963ATM, FDDI, or HIPPI may perform better with
1964.Em MCLSHIFT
1965set to 12 or 13, giving mbuf cluster sizes of 4096 and 8192 bytes,
1966respectively.
1967.It Cd options NETATALK
1968Include support for the AppleTalk protocol stack.
1969The kernel provides provision for the
1970.Em Datagram Delivery Protocol
1971(DDP), providing SOCK_DGRAM support and AppleTalk routing.
1972This stack is used by the
1973.Em NETATALK
1974package, which adds support for AppleTalk server services via user
1975libraries and applications.
1976.It Cd options BLUETOOTH
1977Include support for the Bluetooth protocol stack.
1978See
1979.Xr bluetooth 4
1980for details.
1981.It Cd options IPNOPRIVPORTS
1982Normally, only root can bind a socket descriptor to a so-called
1983.Dq privileged
1984TCP port, that is, a port number in the range 0-1023.
1985This option eliminates those checks from the kernel.
1986This can be useful if there is a desire to allow daemons without
1987privileges to bind those ports, e.g., on firewalls.
1988The security tradeoffs in doing this are subtle.
1989This option should only be used by experts.
1990.It Cd options TCP_DEBUG
1991Record the last
1992.Em TCP_NDEBUG
1993TCP packets with SO_DEBUG set, and decode to the console if
1994.Em tcpconsdebug
1995is set.
1996.It Cd options TCP_NDEBUG
1997Number of packets to record for
1998.Em TCP_DEBUG .
1999Defaults to 100.
2000.It Cd options TCP_SENDSPACE=value
2001.It Cd options TCP_RECVSPACE=value
2002These options set the max TCP window size to other sizes than the default.
2003The TCP window sizes can be altered via
2004.Xr sysctl 8
2005as well.
2006.It Cd options TCP_INIT_WIN=value
2007This option sets the initial TCP window size for non-local connections,
2008which is used when the transmission starts.
2009The default size is 1, but if the machine should act more aggressively,
2010the initial size can be set to some other value.
2011The initial TCP window size can be set via
2012.Xr sysctl 8
2013as well.
2014.It Cd options TCP_SIGNATURE
2015Enable MD5 TCP signatures (RFC 2385) to protect BGP sessions.
2016.It Cd options IPFILTER_LOG
2017This option, in conjunction with
2018.Em pseudo-device ipfilter ,
2019enables logging of IP packets using IP-Filter.
2020.It Cd options IPFILTER_LOOKUP
2021This option enables the
2022IP-Filter
2023.Xr ippool 8
2024functionality to be enabled.
2025.It Cd options IPFILTER_COMPAT
2026This option enables older IP-Filter binaries to work.
2027.It Cd options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK
2028This option sets the default policy of IP-Filter.
2029If it is set, IP-Filter will block packets by default.
2030.It Cd options MBUFTRACE
2031This option can help track down mbuf leaks.
2032When enabled, mbufs are tagged with the devices and protocols using them.
2033This can significantly decrease network performance, particularly
2034on MP systems.
2035This additional information can be viewed with
2036.Xr netstat 1 :
2037.Dl Ic netstat Fl mssv
2038Not all devices or protocols support this option.
2039.El
2040.Ss Sysctl Related Options
2041.Bl -ohang
2042.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_CREATE
2043Disallows the creation or deletion of nodes from the sysctl tree, as
2044well as the assigning of descriptions to nodes that lack them, by any
2045process.
2046These operations are still available to kernel sub-systems, including
2047loadable kernel modules.
2048.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_KWRITE
2049Prevents processes from adding nodes to the sysctl tree that make
2050existing kernel memory areas writable.
2051Sections of kernel memory can still be read and new nodes that own
2052their own data may still be writable.
2053.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_SETUP
2054Causes the SYSCTL_SETUP routines to print a brief message when they
2055are invoked.
2056This is merely meant as an aid in determining the order in which
2057sections of the tree are created.
2058.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_CREATE
2059Prints a message each time
2060.Fn sysctl_create ,
2061the function that adds nodes to the tree, is called.
2062.It Cd options SYSCTL_INCLUDE_DESCR
2063Causes the kernel to include short, human readable descriptions for
2064nodes in the sysctl tree.
2065The descriptions can be retrieved programmatically (see
2066.Xr sysctl 3 ) ,
2067or by the sysctl binary itself (see
2068.Xr sysctl 8 ) .
2069The descriptions are meant to give an indication of the purpose and/or
2070effects of a given node's value, not replace the documentation for the
2071given subsystem as a whole.
2072.El
2073.Ss System V IPC Options
2074.Bl -ohang
2075.It Cd options SYSVMSG
2076Includes support for
2077.At V
2078style message queues.
2079See
2080.Xr msgctl 2 ,
2081.Xr msgget 2 ,
2082.Xr msgrcv 2 ,
2083.Xr msgsnd 2 .
2084.It Cd options SYSVSEM
2085Includes support for
2086.At V
2087style semaphores.
2088See
2089.Xr semctl 2 ,
2090.Xr semget 2 ,
2091.Xr semop 2 .
2092.It Cd options SEMMNI=value
2093Sets the number of
2094.At V
2095style semaphore identifiers.
2096The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default.
2097.It Cd options SEMMNS=value
2098Sets the number of
2099.At V
2100style semaphores in the system.
2101The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default.
2102.It Cd options SEMUME=value
2103Sets the maximum number of undo entries per process for
2104.At V
2105style semaphores.
2106The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default.
2107.It Cd options SEMMNU=value
2108Sets the number of undo structures in the system for
2109.At V
2110style semaphores.
2111The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default.
2112.It Cd options SYSVSHM
2113Includes support for
2114.At V
2115style shared memory.
2116See
2117.Xr shmat 2 ,
2118.Xr shmctl 2 ,
2119.Xr shmdt 2 ,
2120.Xr shmget 2 .
2121.It Cd options SHMMAXPGS=value
2122Sets the maximum number of
2123.At V
2124style shared memory pages that are available through the
2125.Xr shmget 2
2126system call.
2127Default value is 1024 on most ports.
2128See
2129.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2130for the default.
2131.El
2132.Ss VM Related Options
2133.Bl -ohang
2134.It Cd options NMBCLUSTERS=value
2135The number of mbuf clusters the kernel supports.
2136Mbuf clusters are MCLBYTES in size (usually 2k).
2137The default value is calculated from the amount of physical memory.
2138Architectures without direct mapping also limit it based on the kmem_map size,
2139which is used as backing store.
2140Some archs limit the value with
2141.Sq NMBCLUSTERS_MAX .
2142See
2143.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h
2144for those archs.
2145This value can be accessed via the kern.mbuf.nmbclusters sysctl variable.
2146Increase this value if you get
2147.Dq mclpool limit reached
2148messages.
2149.It Cd options NMBCLUSTERS_MAX=value
2150The upper limit of NMBCLUSTERS.
2151.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES=value
2152.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MIN=value
2153.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MAX=value
2154Size of kernel VM map
2155.Em kmem_map ,
2156in PAGE_SIZE-sized chunks (the VM page size; this value may be read
2157from the
2158.Xr sysctl 8
2159variable
2160.Em hw.pagesize
2161).
2162This VM map is used to map the kernel malloc arena.
2163The kernel attempts to auto-size this map based on the amount of
2164physical memory in the system.
2165Platform-specific code may place bounds on this computed size,
2166which may be viewed with the
2167.Xr sysctl 8
2168variable
2169.Em vm.nkmempages .
2170See
2171.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h
2172for the default upper and lower bounds.
2173The related options
2174.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MIN
2175and
2176.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MAX
2177allow the bounds to be overridden in the kernel configuration file.
2178These options are provided in the event the computed value is
2179insufficient resulting in an
2180.Dq out of space in kmem_map
2181panic.
2182.It Cd options SB_MAX=value
2183Sets the max size in bytes that a socket buffer is allowed to occupy.
2184The default is 256k, but sometimes it needs to be increased, for example
2185when using large TCP windows.
2186This option can be changed via
2187.Xr sysctl 8
2188as well.
2189.It Cd options SOMAXKVA=value
2190Sets the maximum size of kernel virtual memory that the socket buffers
2191are allowed to use.
2192The default is 16MB, but in situations where for example large TCP
2193windows are used this value must also be increased.
2194This option can be changed via
2195.Xr sysctl 8
2196as well.
2197.It Cd options BUFCACHE=value
2198Size of the buffer cache as a percentage of total available RAM.
2199Ignored if BUFPAGES is also specified.
2200.It Cd options NBUF=value
2201Sets the number of buffer headers available, i.e., the number of
2202open files that may have a buffer cache entry.
2203Each buffer header
2204requires MAXBSIZE (machine dependent, but usually 65536) bytes.
2205The default value is machine dependent, but is usually equal to the
2206value of BUFPAGES.
2207.It Cd options BUFPAGES=value
2208These options set the number of pages available for the buffer cache.
2209Their default value is a machine dependent value, often calculated as
2210between 5% and 10% of total available RAM.
2211.It Cd options MAXTSIZ=bytes
2212Sets the maximum size limit of a process' text segment.
2213See
2214.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2215for the port-specific default.
2216.It Cd options DFLDSIZ=bytes
2217Sets the default size limit of a process' data segment, the value that
2218will be returned as the soft limit for
2219.Dv RLIMIT_DATA
2220(as returned by
2221.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
2222See
2223.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2224for the port-specific default.
2225.It Cd options MAXDSIZ=bytes
2226Sets the maximum size limit of a process' data segment, the value that
2227will be returned as the hard limit for
2228.Dv RLIMIT_DATA
2229(as returned by
2230.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
2231See
2232.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2233for the port-specific default.
2234.It Cd options DFLSSIZ=bytes
2235Sets the default size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that
2236will be returned as the soft limit for
2237.Dv RLIMIT_STACK
2238(as returned by
2239.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
2240See
2241.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2242for the port-specific default.
2243.It Cd options MAXSSIZ=bytes
2244Sets the maximum size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that
2245will be returned as the hard limit for
2246.Dv RLIMIT_STACK
2247(as returned by
2248.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
2249See
2250.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h
2251for the port-specific default.
2252.It Cd options DUMP_ON_PANIC=integer
2253Defaults to one.
2254If set to zero, the kernel will not dump to the dump device when
2255it panics, though dumps can still be forced via
2256.Xr ddb 4
2257with the
2258.Dq sync
2259command.
2260Note that this sets the value of the
2261.Em kern.dump_on_panic
2262.Xr sysctl 3
2263variable which may be changed at run time \(em see
2264.Xr sysctl 8
2265for details.
2266.It Cd options VMSWAP
2267Enable paging device/file support.
2268This option is on by default.
2269.It Cd options VMSWAP_DEFAULT_PLAINTEXT
2270Store swap in plaintext, not encrypted, which may expose secrets if the
2271underlying nonvolatile medium is disclosed.
2272This option is off by default; it is available only for extremely slow
2273machines where the performance impact of swapping early at boot
2274outweighs the security risks.
2275Swap encryption can still be turned on dynamically with the
2276.Em vm.swap_encrypt
2277.Xr sysctl 7
2278knob.
2279.It Cd options PDPOLICY_CLOCKPRO
2280Use CLOCK-Pro, an alternative page replace policy.
2281.El
2282.Ss Security Options
2283.Bl -ohang
2284.It Cd options INSECURE
2285Initializes the kernel security level with \-1 instead of 0.
2286This means that the system always starts in secure level \-1 mode, even when
2287running multiuser, unless the securelevel variable is set to value > \-1 in
2288.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
2289In this case the kernel security level will be raised to that value when the
2290.Pa /etc/rc.d/securelevel
2291script is run during system startup.
2292See the manual page for
2293.Xr init 8
2294for details on the implications of this.
2295The kernel secure level may manipulated by the superuser by altering the
2296.Em kern.securelevel
2297.Xr sysctl 3
2298variable (the secure level may only be lowered by a call from process ID 1,
2299i.e.,
2300.Xr init 8 ) .
2301See also
2302.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9 ,
2303.Xr sysctl 8
2304and
2305.Xr sysctl 3 .
2306.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA256
2307Enables support for SHA256 hashes in Veriexec.
2308.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA384
2309Enables support for SHA384 hashes in Veriexec.
2310.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA512
2311Enables support for SHA512 hashes in Veriexec.
2312.It Cd options PAX_MPROTECT=value
2313Enables PaX MPROTECT,
2314.Xr mprotect 2
2315restrictions from the PaX project.
2316.Pp
2317The
2318.Ar value
2319is the default value for the
2320.Em global
2321knob, see
2322.Xr sysctl 3 .
2323If 0, PaX MPROTECT will be enabled only if explicitly set on programs
2324using
2325.Xr paxctl 8 .
2326If 1, PaX MPROTECT will be enabled for all programs.
2327Programs can be exempted using
2328.Xr paxctl 8 .
2329.Pp
2330See
2331.Xr security 7
2332for more details.
2333.It Cd options PAX_SEGVGUARD=value
2334Enables PaX Segvguard.
2335Requires
2336.Cd options FILEASSOC .
2337.Pp
2338The
2339.Ar value
2340is the default value for the
2341.Em global
2342knob, see
2343.Xr sysctl 3 .
2344If 0, PaX Segvguard will be enabled only if explicitly set on programs
2345using
2346.Xr paxctl 8 .
2347If 1, PaX Segvguard will be enabled to all programs, and exemption can
2348be done using
2349.Xr paxctl 8 .
2350.Pp
2351See
2352.Xr security 7
2353for more details.
2354.It Cd options PAX_ASLR=value
2355Enables PaX ASLR.
2356.Pp
2357The
2358.Ar value
2359is the default value for the
2360.Em global
2361knob, see
2362.Xr sysctl 3 .
2363If 0, PaX ASLR will be enabled only if explicitly set on programs
2364using
2365.Xr paxctl 8 .
2366If 1, PaX ASLR will be enabled to all programs, and exemption can
2367be done using
2368.Xr paxctl 8 .
2369.Pp
2370See
2371.Xr security 7
2372for more details.
2373.It Cd options USER_VA0_DISABLE_DEFAULT=value
2374Sets the initial value of the flag which controls whether user programs
2375can map virtual address 0.
2376The flag can be changed at runtime by
2377.Xr sysctl 3 .
2378.It Cd options KASAN
2379Enables Kernel Address Sanitizer.
2380.Em NOTE :
2381not available on all architectures.
2382.It Cd options KASLR
2383Enables Kernel ASLR.
2384This randomizes the location of the kernel image in memory.
2385.Em NOTE :
2386not available on all architectures.
2387.It Cd options SVS
2388Enables Separate Virtual Space.
2389On architectures that are designed to function with a shared address
2390space, this option explicitly isolates the kernel and user spaces.
2391.Em NOTE :
2392not available on all architectures.
2393.El
2394.Ss amiga-specific Options
2395.Bl -ohang
2396.It Cd options BB060STUPIDROM
2397When the bootloader (which passes AmigaOS ROM information) claims
2398we have a 68060 CPU without FPU, go look into the Processor
2399Configuration Register (PCR) to find out.
2400You need this with Amiga ROMs up to (at least) V40.xxx (OS3.1),
2401when you boot via the bootblocks and don't have a DraCo.
2402.It Cd options IOBZCLOCK=frequency
2403The IOBlix boards come with two different serial master clocks: older ones
2404use 24 MHz, newer ones use 22.1184 MHz.
2405The driver normally assumes the latter.
2406If your board uses 24 MHz, you can recompile your kernel with
2407options IOBZCLOCK=24000000
2408or patch the kernel variable iobzclock to the same value.
2409.It Cd options LIMITMEM=value
2410If there, limit the part of the first memory bank used by
2411.Nx
2412to value megabytes.
2413Default is unlimited.
2414.It Cd options P5PPC68KBOARD
2415Add special support for Phase5 mixed 68k+PPC boards.
2416Currently, this only affects rebooting from
2417.Nx
2418and is only needed on 68040+PPC, not on
241968060+PPC; without this, affected machines will hang after
2420.Nx
2421has shut
2422down and will only restart after a keyboard reset or a power cycle.
2423.El
2424.Ss atari-specific Options
2425.Bl -ohang
2426.It Cd options DISKLABEL_AHDI
2427Include support for AHDI (native Atari) disklabels.
2428.It Cd options DISKLABEL_NBDA
2429Include support for
2430.Nx Ns /atari
2431labels.
2432If you don't set this option, it will be set automatically.
2433.Nx Ns /atari
2434will not work without it.
2435.It Cd options FALCON_SCSI
2436Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the Falcon.
2437.It Cd options RELOC_KERNEL
2438If set, the kernel will relocate itself to TT-RAM, if possible.
2439This will give you a slightly faster system.
2440.Em Beware
2441that on some TT030 systems,
2442the system will frequently dump with MMU-faults with this option enabled.
2443.It Cd options SERCONSOLE
2444Allow the modem1-port to act as the system-console.
2445A carrier should be active on modem1 during system boot to active
2446the console functionality.
2447.It Cd options TT_SCSI
2448Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the TT030
2449and Hades.
2450.El
2451.Ss i386-specific Options
2452.Bl -ohang
2453.It Cd options CPURESET_DELAY=value
2454Specifies the time (in millisecond) to wait before doing a hardware reset
2455in the last phase of a reboot.
2456This gives the user a chance to see error messages from the shutdown
2457operations (like NFS unmounts, buffer cache flush, etc ...).
2458Setting this to 0 will disable the delay.
2459Default is 2 seconds.
2460.It Cd options USER_LDT
2461Include i386-specific system calls for modifying the local descriptor table,
2462used by Windows emulators.
2463.It Cd options PAE
2464Enable PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode.
2465PAE permits up to 36 bits physical addressing (64GB of physical
2466memory), and turns physical addresses to 64 bits entities in the
2467memory management subsystem.
2468Userland virtual address space remains at 32 bits (4GB).
2469PAE mode is required to enable the NX/XD (No-eXecute/eXecute Disable)
2470bit for pages, which allows marking certain ones as not being executable.
2471Any attempt to execute code from such a page will raise an exception.
2472.It Cd options REALBASEMEM=integer
2473Overrides the base memory size passed in from the boot block.
2474(Value given in kilobytes.)
2475Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly.
2476(Note that some BIOSes put the extended BIOS
2477data area at the top of base memory, and therefore report a smaller
2478base memory size to prevent programs overwriting it.
2479This is correct behavior, and you should not use the
2480.Em REALBASEMEM
2481option to access this memory).
2482.It Cd options SPECTRE_V2_GCC_MITIGATION=1
2483Enable GCC-specific Spectre variant 2 mitigations.
2484For 32-bit kernels this means these options:
2485.Bd -literal -offset indent
2486-mindirect-branch=thunk -mindirect-branch-register
2487.Ed
2488.Pp
2489For 64-bit kernels this means these options:
2490.Bd -literal -offset indent
2491-mindirect-branch=thunk-inline -mindirect-branch-register
2492.Ed
2493.It Cd options REALEXTMEM=integer
2494Overrides the extended memory size passed in from the boot block.
2495(Value given in kilobytes.
2496Extended memory does not include the first megabyte.)
2497Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly.
2498.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS
2499Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU.
2500This option is used to turn on the cache in hold-flush mode.
2501It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in
2502certain motherboard implementations.
2503.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS
2504Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU.
2505This option is used to turn on the cache in write-back mode.
2506It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in
2507certain motherboard implementations.
2508In order for this option to take effect, option
2509.Em CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS
2510must also be specified.
2511.It Cd options PCIBIOS
2512Enable support for initializing the PCI bus using information from
2513the BIOS.
2514See
2515.Xr pcibios 4
2516for details.
2517.It Cd options MTRR
2518Include support for accessing MTRR registers from user-space.
2519See
2520.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 .
2521.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT
2522Make the system speaker emit several beeps when it is completely safe to
2523power down the computer after a
2524.Xr halt 8
2525command.
2526Requires
2527.Xr sysbeep 4
2528support.
2529.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_COUNT=times
2530Number of times to beep the speaker when
2531.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT
2532is enabled.
2533Defaults to 3.
2534.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PITCH=hz
2535The tone frequency used when
2536.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT
2537option, in hertz.
2538Defaults to 1500.
2539.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PERIOD=msecs
2540The duration of each beep when
2541.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT
2542is enabled, in milliseconds.
2543Defaults to 250.
2544.It Cd options MULTIBOOT
2545Makes the kernel Multiboot-compliant, allowing it to be booted through
2546a Multiboot-compliant boot manager such as GRUB.
2547See
2548.Xr multiboot 8
2549for more information.
2550.It Cd options SPLASHSCREEN
2551Display a splash screen during boot.
2552.El
2553.Ss isa-specific Options
2554Options specific to
2555.Xr isa 4
2556busses.
2557.Bl -ohang
2558.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=address, PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=size
2559Control the section of IO bus space used for PCMCIA bus space mapping.
2560Ideally the probed defaults are satisfactory, however in practice
2561that is not always the case.
2562See
2563.Xr pcmcia 4
2564for details.
2565.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK=mask
2566Controls the allowable interrupts that may be used for PCMCIA
2567devices.
2568This mask is a logical-or of power-of-2s of allowable interrupts:
2569.Bd -literal -offset 04n
2570.Em "IRQ Val      IRQ Val      IRQ Val       IRQ Val"
2571 0  0x0001    4  0x0010    8  0x0100    12  0x1000
2572 1  0x0002    5  0x0020    9  0x0200    13  0x2000
2573 2  0x0004    6  0x0040   10  0x0400    14  0x4000
2574 3  0x0008    7  0x0080   11  0x0800    15  0x8000
2575.Ed
2576.It Cd options PCKBC_CNATTACH_SELFTEST
2577Perform a self test of the keyboard controller before attaching it as a
2578console.
2579This might be necessary on machines where we boot on cold iron, and
2580pckbc refuses to talk until we request a self test.
2581Currently only the netwinder port uses it.
2582.It Cd options PCKBD_CNATTACH_MAY_FAIL
2583If this option is set the PS/2 keyboard will not be used as the console
2584if it cannot be found during boot.
2585This allows other keyboards, like USB, to be the console keyboard.
2586.It Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT=layout
2587Sets the default keyboard layout, see
2588.Xr pckbd 4 .
2589.El
2590.Ss m68k-specific Options
2591.Bl -ohang
2592.It Cd options FPU_EMULATE
2593Include support for MC68881/MC68882 emulator.
2594.It Cd options FPSP
2595Include support for 68040 floating point.
2596.It Cd options M68020,M68030,M68040,M68060
2597Include support for a specific CPU,
2598at least one (the one you are using) should be specified.
2599.It Cd options M060SP
2600Include software support for 68060.
2601This provides emulation of unimplemented
2602integer instructions as well as emulation of unimplemented floating point
2603instructions and data types and software support for floating point traps.
2604.El
2605.Ss powerpc-specific Options (OEA Only)
2606.Bl -ohang
2607.It Cd options PMAP_MEMLIMIT=value
2608Limit the amount of memory seen by the kernel to
2609.Ar value
2610bytes.
2611.It Cd options PTEGCOUNT=value
2612Specify the size of the page table as
2613.Ar value
2614PTE groups.
2615Normally, one PTEG is allocated per physical page frame.
2616.El
2617.Ss sparc-specific Options
2618.Bl -ohang
2619.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG
2620Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the
2621.Xr audio 4
2622device.
2623.It Cd options BLINK
2624Enable blinking of LED.
2625Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for
2626N < then current load average.
2627See
2628.Xr getloadavg 3 .
2629.\" .It Cd options COLORFONT_CACHE
2630.\" What does this do?
2631.It Cd options COUNT_SW_LEFTOVERS
2632Count how many times the sw SCSI device has left 3, 2, 1 and 0 in the
2633sw_3_leftover, sw_2_leftover, sw_1_leftover, and sw_0_leftover
2634variables accessible from
2635.Xr ddb 4 .
2636See
2637.Xr sw 4 .
2638.It Cd options DEBUG_ALIGN
2639Adds debugging messages calls when user-requested alignment fault
2640handling happens.
2641.It Cd options DEBUG_EMUL
2642Adds debugging messages calls for emulated floating point and
2643alignment fixing operations.
2644.It Cd options EXTREME_DEBUG
2645Adds debugging functions callable from
2646.Xr ddb 4 .
2647The debug_pagetables, test_region and print_fe_map
2648functions print information about page tables for the SUN4M
2649platforms only.
2650.It Cd options EXTREME_EXTREME_DEBUG
2651Adds extra info to
2652.Em options EXTREME_DEBUG .
2653.It Cd options FPU_CONTEXT
2654Make
2655.Em options COMPAT_SVR4
2656getcontext and setcontext include floating point registers.
2657.It Cd options MAGMA_DEBUG
2658Adds debugging messages to the
2659.Xr magma 4
2660device.
2661.It Cd options RASTERCONS_FULLSCREEN
2662Use the entire screen for the console.
2663.It Cd options RASTERCONS_SMALLFONT
2664Use the Fixed font on the console, instead of the normal font.
2665.It Cd options SUN4
2666Support sun4 class machines.
2667.It Cd options SUN4C
2668Support sun4c class machines.
2669.It Cd options SUN4M
2670Support sun4m class machines.
2671.It Cd options SUN4_MMU3L
2672.\" XXX ???
2673Enable support for sun4 3-level MMU machines.
2674.It Cd options V9
2675Enable SPARC V9 assembler in
2676.Xr ddb 4 .
2677.El
2678.Ss sparc64-specific Options
2679.Bl -ohang
2680.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG
2681Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the
2682.Xr audio 4
2683device.
2684.It Cd options BLINK
2685Enable blinking of LED.
2686Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for
2687N < then current load average.
2688See
2689.Xr getloadavg 3 .
2690.El
2691.Ss x68k-specific Options
2692.Bl -ohang
2693.It Cd options EXTENDED_MEMORY
2694Include support for extended memory, e.g., TS-6BE16 and 060turbo on-board.
2695.It Cd options JUPITER
2696Include support for Jupiter-X MPU accelerator
2697.It Cd options ZSCONSOLE,ZSCN_SPEED=value
2698Use the built-in serial port as the system-console.
2699Speed is specified in bps, defaults to 9600.
2700.It Cd options ITE_KERNEL_ATTR=value
2701Set the kernel message attribute for ITE.
2702Value, an integer, is a logical or of the following values:
2703.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact -offset indent
2704.It 1
2705color inversed
2706.It 2
2707underlined
2708.It 4
2709bolded
2710.El
2711.El
2712.Ss x86-specific Options
2713.Bl -ohang
2714.It Cd options NO_PCI_MSI_MSIX
2715Disable support for MSI/MSIX in the kernel.
2716See
2717.Xr pci_msi 9
2718for details of MSI/MSIX support
2719.It Cd options NO_PREEMPTION
2720Disables
2721.Xr kpreempt 9
2722support in the kernel.
2723.El
2724.\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate.
2725.\" .Sh FILES
2726.\" .Sh EXAMPLES
2727.Sh SEE ALSO
2728.Xr config 1 ,
2729.Xr gcc 1 ,
2730.Xr gdb 1 ,
2731.Xr ktrace 1 ,
2732.Xr quota 1 ,
2733.Xr vndcompress 1 ,
2734.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
2735.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 ,
2736.Xr i386_iopl 2 ,
2737.Xr msgctl 2 ,
2738.Xr msgget 2 ,
2739.Xr msgrcv 2 ,
2740.Xr msgsnd 2 ,
2741.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 ,
2742.Xr ntp_gettime 2 ,
2743.Xr reboot 2 ,
2744.Xr semctl 2 ,
2745.Xr semget 2 ,
2746.Xr semop 2 ,
2747.Xr shmat 2 ,
2748.Xr shmctl 2 ,
2749.Xr shmdt 2 ,
2750.Xr shmget 2 ,
2751.Xr sysctl 3 ,
2752.Xr apm 4 ,
2753.Xr ddb 4 ,
2754.Xr inet 4 ,
2755.Xr md 4 ,
2756.Xr pcibios 4 ,
2757.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
2758.Xr ppp 4 ,
2759.Xr userconf 4 ,
2760.Xr vnd 4 ,
2761.Xr wscons 4 ,
2762.Xr config 5 ,
2763.Xr edquota 8 ,
2764.Xr init 8 ,
2765.Xr mdsetimage 8 ,
2766.Xr mount_cd9660 8 ,
2767.Xr mount_fdesc 8 ,
2768.Xr mount_kernfs 8 ,
2769.Xr mount_lfs 8 ,
2770.Xr mount_mfs 8 ,
2771.Xr mount_msdos 8 ,
2772.Xr mount_nfs 8 ,
2773.Xr mount_ntfs 8 ,
2774.Xr mount_null 8 ,
2775.Xr mount_portal 8 ,
2776.Xr mount_procfs 8 ,
2777.Xr mount_udf 8 ,
2778.Xr mount_umap 8 ,
2779.Xr mount_union 8 ,
2780.Xr mrouted 8 ,
2781.Xr newfs_lfs 8 ,
2782.Xr ntpd 8 ,
2783.Xr quotaon 8 ,
2784.Xr rpc.rquotad 8 ,
2785.Xr sysctl 8 ,
2786.Xr cnmagic 9 ,
2787.Xr in_getifa 9 ,
2788.Xr kernhist 9
2789.Sh HISTORY
2790The
2791.Nm
2792man page first appeared in
2793.Nx 1.3 .
2794