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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
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29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30 bool
31 help
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35
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36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
38
ff0cfc66 39menu "General setup"
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41config BROKEN
42 bool
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43
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
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49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
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51 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 53 help
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54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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58config CROSS_COMPILE
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
60 help
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
65
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66config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 68 depends on !UML
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69 default n
70 help
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
76
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
80
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81config LOCALVERSION
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
83 help
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
90
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91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
ac3339ba 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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95 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
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99
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
107
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
109
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
30d65dbf 130choice
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131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 134 help
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135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
140
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
145
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
148 size matters less.
149
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
151
152config KERNEL_GZIP
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153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
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156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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168
169config KERNEL_LZMA
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170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
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173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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177config KERNEL_XZ
178 bool "XZ"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
180 help
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
187
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
191
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192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
0a4dd35c 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
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200config KERNEL_LZ4
201 bool "LZ4"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203 help
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
207
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
210 faster than LZO.
211
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212endchoice
213
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214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
216 default "(none)"
217 help
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
222
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223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
232
233config SYSVIPC
234 bool "System V IPC"
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235 ---help---
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
243
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
247
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248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
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254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 256 depends on NET
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257 ---help---
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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263
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
267
268 If unsure, say Y.
269
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270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
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276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
278 depends on MMU
279 default y
280 help
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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284 See the man page for more details.
285
391dc69c 286config FHANDLE
f76be617 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 288 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 289 default y
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290 help
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
297 syscalls.
298
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299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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302 help
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
308
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309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
311 depends on NET
312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
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318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
391dc69c 321config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 322 def_bool y
7a017721 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
329
330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
333 select FSNOTIFY
334
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335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
337
338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
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340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
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343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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352 help
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
355 granularity.
356
357 If unsure, say Y.
358
abf917cd 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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363 help
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
370 systems.
371
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372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
378 help
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
383 overhead.
384
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
387
388 If unsure, say N.
389
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391
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392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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395 help
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
400
401 If in doubt, say N here.
402
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403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 405 depends on MULTIUSER
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406 help
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
416
417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
420 default n
421 help
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 428
c757249a 429config TASKSTATS
19c92399 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 431 depends on NET
2813893f 432 depends on MULTIUSER
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433 default n
434 help
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
439 space on task exit.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
ca74e92b 443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 445 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 446 select SCHED_INFO
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447 help
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
18f705f4 455config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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457 depends on TASKSTATS
458 help
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
464config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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466 depends on TASK_XACCT
467 help
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
469 task has caused.
470
471 Say N if unsure.
472
391dc69c 473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 474
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475menu "RCU Subsystem"
476
c903ff83 477config TREE_RCU
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478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
c903ff83 485
28f6569a 486config PREEMPT_RCU
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487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
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489 help
490 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
491 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
492 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
f41d911f 495
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496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
9b1d82fa 498config TINY_RCU
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499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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501 help
502 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
503 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
504 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
505 memory footprint of RCU.
506
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507config RCU_EXPERT
508 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
509 default n
510 help
511 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
512 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
513 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
514 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
515 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
516 obscure RCU options to be set up.
517
518 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
519
520 Say N if you are unsure.
521
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522config SRCU
523 bool
524 help
525 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
526 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
527 sections.
528
8315f422 529config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 530 bool
8315f422 531 default n
570dd3c7 532 depends on !UML
83fe27ea 533 select SRCU
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534 help
535 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
536 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
537 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
538
6bfc09e2 539config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 540 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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541 help
542 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
543 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
544 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
545 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
546
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547config CONTEXT_TRACKING
548 bool
549
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550config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
551 bool "Force context tracking"
552 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 553 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 554 help
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555 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
556 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
557 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
558 dynticks working.
559
560 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
561 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
562 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
563 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
564 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
565 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
566 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
567 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
568 CPUs in the system.
569
99c8b1ea 570 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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571 architecture backend for the context tracking.
572
573 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
574 don't want in production.
575
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577config RCU_FANOUT
578 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
579 range 2 64 if 64BIT
580 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 581 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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583 default 32 if !64BIT
584 help
585 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
586 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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587 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
588 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
589 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
590 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
591 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
592 code paths on small(er) systems.
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593
594 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
595 Take the default if unsure.
596
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597config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
598 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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599 range 2 64 if 64BIT
600 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 601 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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602 default 16
603 help
604 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
605 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
606 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
607 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
608 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
609 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
610 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
611 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
612 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
613 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
614 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
615 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
616 leaf-level fanouts work well.
617
618 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
619
620 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
621
622 Take the default if unsure.
623
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624config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
625 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 626 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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627 default n
628 help
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629 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
630 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
631 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
632 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
633 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
634 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
635 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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638 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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640 Say N if you are unsure.
641
c903ff83 642config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 643 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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645 help
f41d911f 646 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 647 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 648 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 649
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651 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 652 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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654 help
655 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
656 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
657 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
658 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
659
660 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
661 Say N here if you are unsure.
662
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664 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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666 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
667 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
668 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 669 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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672 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
673 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
674 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
675 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
676 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
677 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
678 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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679 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
680
681 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
682 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
683 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 684 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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686 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
687 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
688 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 689 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 690 set to priority 6 or higher.
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692 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
693
694config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
695 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
696 range 0 3000
697 depends on RCU_BOOST
698 default 500
699 help
700 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
701 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
702 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
703 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
704
705 Accept the default if unsure.
706
3fbfbf7a 707config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 708 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 709 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 710 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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712 help
713 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
714 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
715 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
716 asymmetric multiprocessors.
717
718 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
719 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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720 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
721 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
722 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
723 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
724 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
725 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
726 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
3fbfbf7a 727
34ed6246 728 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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730
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732 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
733 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 734 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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737 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
738 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
739 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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741config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
742 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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744 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
745 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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747 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
748 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
749
750 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
751 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
752 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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754config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
755 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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758 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
759 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
760 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
761 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
762 context.
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764 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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766 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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768config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
769 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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771 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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773 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
774 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
775 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
776 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
777 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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779 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
780 or energy-efficiency reasons.
781
782endchoice
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785 bool
786 default n
787 help
788 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
789 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
790 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
791 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
792 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
793 init is exec'ed.
794
795 Accept the default if unsure.
796
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798
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799config BUILD_BIN2C
800 bool
801 default n
802
1da177e4 803config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 804 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 805 select BUILD_BIN2C
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806 ---help---
807 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
808 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
809 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
810 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
811 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
812 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
813 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
814 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
815
816config IKCONFIG_PROC
817 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
818 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
819 ---help---
820 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
821 through /proc/config.gz.
822
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824 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 825 range 12 25
f17a32e9 826 default 17
361e9dfb 827 depends on PRINTK
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830 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
831 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
832 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
833
f17a32e9 834 Examples:
23b2899f 835 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 836 16 => 64 KB
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838 14 => 16 KB
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840 12 => 4 KB
841
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843 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 844 depends on SMP
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846 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
847 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 848 depends on PRINTK
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850 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
851 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
852 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
853 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
854 e.g. backtraces.
855
856 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
857 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
858 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
859 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
860 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
861 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
862
863 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
864 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
865
866 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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868 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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870 Examples shift values and their meaning:
871 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
872 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
873 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
874 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
875 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
876 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
877
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879 int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
880 range 10 21
881 default 13
882 depends on PRINTK_NMI
883 help
884 Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
885 stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
886 to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
887
888 NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
889 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
890 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
891
892 Examples:
893 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
894 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
895 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
896 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
897 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
898 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
899
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901# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
902#
903config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
904 bool
905
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907 bool
908
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910# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
911# balancing logic:
912#
913config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
914 bool
915
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917# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
918# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
919# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
920# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
921# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
922# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
923config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
924 bool
925
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927# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
928#
929config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
930 bool
931
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933# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
934#
935config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
936 bool
937
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939 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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941 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
942 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
943 help
944 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
945 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 946 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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948 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
949
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951 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
952 default y
953 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
954 help
955 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
956 machine.
957
23964d2d 958menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 959 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 960 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 961 help
23964d2d 962 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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963 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
964 controls or device isolation.
965 See
5cdc38f9 966 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 967 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 968 and resource control)
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970 Say N if unsure.
971
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975 bool
976
c255a458 977config MEMCG
a0166ec4 978 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 979 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 980 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 981 help
a0166ec4 982 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 983
c255a458 984config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 985 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 986 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
c077719b 987 help
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989
c255a458 990config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 991 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 992 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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993 default y
994 help
995 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
996 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 997 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 998 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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999 parameter should have this option unselected.
1000 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1001 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1002 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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1005 bool "IO controller"
1006 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 1007 default n
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1009 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1010 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1011 policies.
2bc64a20 1012
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1014 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1015 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1016 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
e5d1367f 1017
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1019 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1020 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1021 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1022 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1023
9991a9c8 1024 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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1026config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1027 bool "IO controller debugging"
1028 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1029 default n
1030 ---help---
1031 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1032 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1033
1034config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1035 bool
1036 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1037 default y
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7c941438 1039menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 1040 bool "CPU controller"
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1042 help
1043 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1044 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1045 tasks.
1046
1047if CGROUP_SCHED
1048config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1049 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1050 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1051 default CGROUP_SCHED
1052
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1054 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1056 default n
1057 help
1058 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1059 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1060 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1061 restriction.
1062 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1063
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1065 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1067 default n
1068 help
1069 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1070 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1072 realtime bandwidth for them.
1073 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1074
1075endif #CGROUP_SCHED
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1078 bool "PIDs controller"
1079 help
1080 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1081 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1082 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1083 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1084 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1085 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1086 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1088 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1089 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1091 attach to a cgroup.
1092
1093config CGROUP_FREEZER
1094 bool "Freezer controller"
1095 help
1096 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1097 cgroup.
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1100 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1101
1102 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1103
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1105 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1106 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1107 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1108 default n
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1110 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1111 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1112 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1113 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1114 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1115 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1116 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1117 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1118 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1121 bool "Cpuset controller"
1122 help
1123 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1124 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1125 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1126 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1127
6bf024e6 1128 Say N if unsure.
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1131 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1132 depends on CPUSETS
1133 default y
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1136 bool "Device controller"
1137 help
1138 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1139 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1140
1141config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1142 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1143 help
1144 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1145 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1146
1147config CGROUP_PERF
1148 bool "Perf controller"
1149 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1150 help
1151 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1152 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1153 designated cpu.
1154
1155 Say N if unsure.
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1158 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1162 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1163 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1164
1165 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1166 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1167 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1168 inet sockets.
1169
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1171 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1172 default n
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1174 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1175 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1176
6bf024e6 1177 Say N.
89e9b9e0 1178
23964d2d 1179endif # CGROUPS
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1182 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1183 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1185 help
1186 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1187 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1188 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1189 entries.
1190
1191 If unsure, say N here.
1192
8dd2a82c 1193menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1194 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1195 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1196 default !EXPERT
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1198 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1199 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1200 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1201 different namespaces.
1202
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1206 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1207 default y
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1209 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1210 uname() system call
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1213 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1214 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1215 default y
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1217 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1218 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1219
aee16ce7 1220config USER_NS
19c92399 1221 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1222 default n
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1224 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1225 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1226
1227 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1228 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1229 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1230 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1232 If unsure, say N.
1233
74bd59bb 1234config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1235 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1236 default y
74bd59bb 1237 help
12d2b8f9 1238 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1239 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1240 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1241
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1242config NET_NS
1243 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1244 depends on NET
17a6d441 1245 default y
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1246 help
1247 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1248 of the network stack.
1249
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1250endif # NAMESPACES
1251
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1252config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1253 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1254 select CGROUPS
1255 select CGROUP_SCHED
1256 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1257 help
1258 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1259 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1260 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1261 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1262 upon task session.
1263
7af37bec 1264config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1265 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1266 depends on SYSFS
1267 default n
1268 help
1269 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1270 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1271 /sys/block/.
1272
1273 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1274 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1275
1276 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1277 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1278 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1279
1280 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1281 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1282 option enabled.
1283
1284 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1285 need to say Y here.
1286
1287config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1288 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1289 default n
1290 depends on SYSFS
1291 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1292 help
1293 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1294
1295 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1296 option.
1297
1298 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1299 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1300 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1301
1302config RELAY
1303 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1304 select IRQ_WORK
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1305 help
1306 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1307 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1308 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1309 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1310 user space.
1311
1312 If unsure, say N.
1313
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1314config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1315 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1316 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1317 help
1318 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1319 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1320 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1321 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1322 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1323
1324 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1325 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1326 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1327
1328 If unsure say Y.
1329
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1330if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1331
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1332source "usr/Kconfig"
1333
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1334endif
1335
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1336choice
1337 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1338 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1339
1340config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1341 bool "Optimize for performance"
1342 help
1343 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1344 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1345 helpful compile-time warnings.
1346
c45b4f1f 1347config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1348 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1349 help
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1350 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1351 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1352
3a55fb0d 1353 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1354
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1355endchoice
1356
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1357config SYSCTL
1358 bool
1359
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1360config ANON_INODES
1361 bool
1362
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1363config HAVE_UID16
1364 bool
1365
1366config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1367 bool
1368 help
1369 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1370
1371config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1372 bool
1373 help
1374 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1375 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1376 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1377
1378config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1379 bool
1380 help
1381 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1382 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1383 the unaligned access emulation.
1384 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1385
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1386config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1387 bool
1388
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1389# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1390config BPF
1391 bool
1392
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1393menuconfig EXPERT
1394 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1395 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1396 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1397 help
1398 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1399 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1400 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1401 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1402
ae81f9e3 1403config UID16
6a108a14 1404 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1405 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1406 default y
1407 help
1408 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1409
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1410config MULTIUSER
1411 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1412 default y
1413 help
1414 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1415 capabilities.
1416
1417 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1418 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1419 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1420 setgid, and capset.
1421
1422 If unsure, say Y here.
1423
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1424config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1425 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1426 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1427 ---help---
1428 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1429 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1430 architectures.
1431
1432 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1433
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1434config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1435 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1436 default y
1437 ---help---
1438 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1439 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1440 compatibility with some systems.
1441
1442 If unsure say Y here.
1443
b89a8171 1444config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1445 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1446 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1447 default n
b89a8171 1448 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1449 ---help---
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1450 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1451 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1452 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1453 information.
b89a8171 1454
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1455 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1456 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1457 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1458
c736de60 1459 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1460
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1461config POSIX_TIMERS
1462 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1463 default y
1464 help
1465 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1466 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1467 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1468
1469 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1470 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1471 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1472 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1473 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1474 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1475
1476 If unsure say y.
1477
1da177e4 1478config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1479 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1480 default y
1481 help
1482 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1483 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1484 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1485
1486config KALLSYMS_ALL
1487 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1488 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1489 help
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1490 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1491 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1492 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1493 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1494 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1495
1496 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1497 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1498 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1499 something like this).
1500
1501 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1503config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1504 bool
076501ff 1505 depends on KALLSYMS
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1506 default X86_64 && SMP
1507
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1508config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1509 bool
1510 depends on KALLSYMS
1511 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1512 help
1513 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1514 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1515 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1516 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1517 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1518 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1519 address encountered in the image.
1520
1521 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1522 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1523 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1524 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1525
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1526config PRINTK
1527 default y
6a108a14 1528 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1529 select IRQ_WORK
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1530 help
1531 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1532 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1533 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1534 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1535 strongly discouraged.
1536
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1537config PRINTK_NMI
1538 def_bool y
1539 depends on PRINTK
1540 depends on HAVE_NMI
1541
c8538a7a 1542config BUG
6a108a14 1543 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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MM
1544 default y
1545 help
1546 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1547 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1548 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1549 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1550 Just say Y.
1551
708e9a79 1552config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1553 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1554 default y
6a108a14 1555 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1556 help
1557 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1558
8761f1ab 1559
e5e1d3cb 1560config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1561 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1562 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1563 select I8253_LOCK
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SS
1564 default y
1565 help
1566 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1567 support, saving some memory.
1568
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1569config BASE_FULL
1570 default y
6a108a14 1571 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1572 help
1573 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1574 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1575 but may reduce performance.
1576
1577config FUTEX
6a108a14 1578 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1579 default y
23f78d4a 1580 select RT_MUTEXES
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1581 help
1582 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1583 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1584 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1585
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1586config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1587 bool
62b4d204 1588 depends on FUTEX
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1589 help
1590 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1591 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1592 checks.
1593
1da177e4 1594config EPOLL
6a108a14 1595 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1596 default y
448e3cee 1597 select ANON_INODES
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1598 help
1599 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1600 support for epoll family of system calls.
1601
fba2afaa 1602config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1603 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1604 select ANON_INODES
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1605 default y
1606 help
1607 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1608 on a file descriptor.
1609
1610 If unsure, say Y.
1611
b215e283 1612config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1613 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1614 select ANON_INODES
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1615 default y
1616 help
1617 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1618 events on a file descriptor.
1619
1620 If unsure, say Y.
1621
e1ad7468 1622config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1623 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1624 select ANON_INODES
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1625 default y
1626 help
1627 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1628 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1629
1630 If unsure, say Y.
1631
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1632# syscall, maps, verifier
1633config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1634 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1635 select ANON_INODES
1636 select BPF
1637 default n
1638 help
1639 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1640 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1641
1da177e4 1642config SHMEM
6a108a14 1643 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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LT
1644 default y
1645 depends on MMU
1646 help
1647 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1648 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1649 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1650 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1651 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1652
ebf3f09c 1653config AIO
6a108a14 1654 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1655 default y
1656 help
1657 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1658 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1659 this option saves about 7k.
1660
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1661config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1662 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1663 default y
1664 help
1665 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1666 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1667 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1668 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1669 space.
1670
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1671config USERFAULTFD
1672 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1673 select ANON_INODES
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1674 depends on MMU
1675 help
1676 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1677 handle page faults in userland.
1678
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1679config PCI_QUIRKS
1680 default y
1681 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1682 depends on PCI
1683 help
1684 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1685 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1686 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1687
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1688config MEMBARRIER
1689 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1690 default y
1691 help
1692 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1693 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1694 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1695 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1696 compiler barrier.
1697
1698 If unsure, say Y.
1699
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1700config EMBEDDED
1701 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1702 option allnoconfig_y
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1703 select EXPERT
1704 help
1705 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1706 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1707 for configuration.
1708
cdd6c482 1709config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1710 bool
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1711 help
1712 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1713
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1714config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1715 bool
1716 help
1717 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1718
57c0c15b 1719menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1720
cdd6c482 1721config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1722 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1723 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1724 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1725 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1726 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1727 select SRCU
0793a61d 1728 help
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1729 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1730 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1731
dd77038d 1732 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1733 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1734
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1735 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1736 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1737 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1738 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1739 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1740 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1741 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1742
57c0c15b 1743 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1744 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1745 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1746 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1747 capabilities on top of those.
1748
1749 Say Y if unsure.
1750
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1751config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1752 default n
1753 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1754 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1755 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1756 help
1757 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1758
1759 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1760 that don't require it.
1761
1762 Say N if unsure.
1763
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1764endmenu
1765
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1766config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1767 default y
6a108a14 1768 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1769 help
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1770 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1771 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1772 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1773 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1774
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1775config SLUB_DEBUG
1776 default y
6a108a14 1777 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1778 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1779 help
1780 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1781 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1782 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1783 no support for cache validation etc.
1784
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1785config COMPAT_BRK
1786 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1787 default y
1788 help
1789 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1790 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1791 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1792 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1793 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1794
1795 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1796
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1797choice
1798 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1799 default SLUB
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1800 help
1801 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1802
1803config SLAB
1804 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1805 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1806 help
1807 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1808 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1809 per cpu and per node queues.
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1811config SLUB
81819f0f 1812 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1813 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1814 help
1815 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1816 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1817 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1818 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1819 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1820 a slab allocator.
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1821
1822config SLOB
6a108a14 1823 depends on EXPERT
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1824 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1825 help
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1826 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1827 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1828 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1829
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1831
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1832config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1833 default n
210e7a43 1834 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1835 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1836 help
210e7a43 1837 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1839 allocator against heap overflows.
1840
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1841config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1842 default y
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1844 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1845 help
1846 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1847 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1848 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1849 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1850 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1851
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1852config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1853 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1854 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1855 default n
1856 help
1857 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1858 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1859 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1860 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1861 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1862 then the flag will be ignored.
1863
1864 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1865 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1866
1867 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1868 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1869 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1870 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1871
1872 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1873
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1875 def_bool n
1876 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1877 select KEYS
1878 select CRYPTO
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1880 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1881 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1882 select ASN1
1883 select OID_REGISTRY
1884 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1885 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1886 help
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1887 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1888 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1889 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1890 verification.
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125e5645 1892config PROFILING
b309a294 1893 bool "Profiling support"
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1895 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1896 by profilers such as OProfile.
1897
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1899# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1900# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1901#
97e1c18e 1902config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1903 bool
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1906
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1907endmenu # General setup
1908
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1909config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1910 bool
1911 default n
1912
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1913config SLABINFO
1914 bool
1915 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1916 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1917 default y
1918
ae81f9e3 1919config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1920 bool
ae81f9e3 1921
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1922config BASE_SMALL
1923 int
1924 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1925 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1926
66da5733 1927menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1928 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1929 option modules
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1930 help
1931 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1932 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1933 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1934 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1935 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1936 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1937 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1938 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1939 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1940
1941 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1942 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1943 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1944 this).
1945
1946 If unsure, say Y.
1947
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1949
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1950config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1951 bool "Forced module loading"
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1952 default n
1953 help
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1954 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1955 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1956 is usually a really bad idea.
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1958config MODULE_UNLOAD
1959 bool "Module unloading"
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1960 help
1961 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1962 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1964 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1966config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1967 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1968 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1969 help
1970 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1971 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1972 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1973 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1974 If unsure, say N.
1975
1da177e4 1976config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1977 bool "Module versioning support"
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1978 help
1979 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1980 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1981 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1982 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1983 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1984 unsure, say N.
1985
1986config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1987 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1989 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1990 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1991 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1992 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1993 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1994 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1995 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1996
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1998 bool "Module signature verification"
1999 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 2000 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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2002 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2003 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2004 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2005
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2006 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2007 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2008 library.
2009
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2010 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2011 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2012 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2013 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2014
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2016 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2017 depends on MODULE_SIG
2018 help
2019 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2020 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2022config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2023 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2024 default y
2025 depends on MODULE_SIG
2026 help
2027 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2028 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2029
2030comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2031 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2032
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2034 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2035 depends on MODULE_SIG
2036 help
2037 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2038 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2039 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2040 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2041 the signature on that module.
2042
2043config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2044 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2045 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2046
2047config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2048 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2049 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2050
2051config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2052 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2053 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2054
2055config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2056 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2057 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2058
2059config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2060 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2061 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2062
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2066 string
2067 depends on MODULE_SIG
2068 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2069 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2070 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2071 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2072 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2073
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2074config MODULE_COMPRESS
2075 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2076 depends on MODULES
2077 help
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2079 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2080 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2082 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2084 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2085 compressed upon installation.
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2087 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2088 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2090 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2091
2092 If in doubt, say N.
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2094choice
2095 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2096 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2097 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2098 help
2099 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2100 'make modules_install'.
2101
2102 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2103
2104config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2105 bool "GZIP"
2106
2107config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2108 bool "XZ"
2109
2110endchoice
2111
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2112config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2113 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2114 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2115 help
2116 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2117 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2118 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2119 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2120
2121 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2122 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2123 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2124 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2125
f1cb637e 2126 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2129
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2130config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2131 def_bool y
2132 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2133
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2134config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2135 bool
2136 help
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2137 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2138 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2139 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2140 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2141 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2145config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2146 bool
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2148config PADATA
2149 depends on SMP
2150 bool
2151
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2152config ASN1
2153 tristate
2154 help
2155 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2156 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2157 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2158 functions to call on what tags.
2159
6beb0009 2160source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"