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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> | 2026-01-06 09:38:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-01-14 16:50:36 +0100 |
| commit | 46329a9dd74bd12e92fb7cc8afe70dad32875758 (patch) | |
| tree | a38c7a541f9c1cd20c23e033af5c099191927885 /init | |
| parent | 6784f274722559c0cdaaa418bc8b7b1d61c314f9 (diff) | |
acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting
As Christian points out [1], even though it's privileged, this interface
has a lot of footguns. There are better options these days (e.g. eBPF),
so it would be good to start discouraging its use and mark it as
deprecated.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250212-giert-spannend-8893f1eaba7d@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106-bsd-acct-v1-1-d15564b52c83@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index fa79feb8fe57..160c1c4ef253 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -624,8 +624,9 @@ config SCHED_HW_PRESSURE arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT - bool "BSD Process Accounting" + bool "BSD Process Accounting (DEPRECATED)" depends on MULTIUSER + default n help If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting @@ -635,7 +636,9 @@ config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is up to the user level program to do useful things with this - information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. + information. This mechanism is antiquated and has significant + scalability issues. You probably want to use eBPF instead. Say + N unless you really need this. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" |