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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
ff0cfc66 29menu "General setup"
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30
31config EXPERIMENTAL
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32 bool
33 default y
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35config BROKEN
36 bool
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37
38config BROKEN_ON_SMP
39 bool
40 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
41 default y
42
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43config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
44 int
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45 default 32 if !UML
46 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 47 help
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48 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
49 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 50
1da177e4 51
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52config CROSS_COMPILE
53 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
54 help
55 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
56 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
57 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
58 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
59
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60config LOCALVERSION
61 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
62 help
63 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
64 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
65 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
66 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
67 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
68 be a maximum of 64 characters.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
71 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
72 default y
73 help
74 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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75 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
76 top of tree revision.
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77
78 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 79 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 80 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 81 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 82
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83 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
84 by running the command:
85
86 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
87
88 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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90config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
91 bool
92
93config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
94 bool
95
96config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
97 bool
98
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99config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
100 bool
101
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102config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
103 bool
104
30d65dbf 105choice
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106 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
107 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 108 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 109 help
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110 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
111 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
112 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
113 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
114 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
115
116 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
117 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
118 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
119 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
120
121 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
122 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
123 size matters less.
124
125 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
126
127config KERNEL_GZIP
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128 bool "Gzip"
129 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
130 help
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131 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
132 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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134config KERNEL_BZIP2
135 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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137 help
138 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 139 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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140 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
141 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
142 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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144config KERNEL_LZMA
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145 bool "LZMA"
146 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
147 help
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148 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
149 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
150 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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152config KERNEL_XZ
153 bool "XZ"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
155 help
156 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
157 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
158 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
159 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
160 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
161 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
162
163 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
164 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
165 and LZO. Compression is slow.
166
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167config KERNEL_LZO
168 bool "LZO"
169 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
170 help
0a4dd35c 171 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 172 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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173 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
174
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175endchoice
176
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177config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
178 string "Default hostname"
179 default "(none)"
180 help
181 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
182 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
183 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
184 system more usable with less configuration.
185
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186config SWAP
187 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 188 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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189 default y
190 help
191 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 192 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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193 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
194 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
195
196config SYSVIPC
197 bool "System V IPC"
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198 ---help---
199 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
200 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
201 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
202 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
203 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
204 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
205 you'll need to say Y here.
206
207 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
208 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
209 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
210
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211config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
212 bool
213 depends on SYSVIPC
214 depends on SYSCTL
215 default y
216
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217config POSIX_MQUEUE
218 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 219 depends on NET
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220 ---help---
221 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
222 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
223 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
224 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 225 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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226
227 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
228 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
229 operations on message queues.
230
231 If unsure, say Y.
232
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233config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
234 bool
235 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
236 depends on SYSCTL
237 default y
238
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239config FHANDLE
240 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
241 select EXPORTFS
242 help
243 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
244 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
245 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
246 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
247 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
248 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
249 syscalls.
250
251config AUDIT
252 bool "Auditing support"
253 depends on NET
254 help
255 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
256 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
257 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
258 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
259
260config AUDITSYSCALL
261 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
262 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
263 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
264 help
265 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
266 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
267 such as SELinux.
268
269config AUDIT_WATCH
270 def_bool y
271 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
272 select FSNOTIFY
273
274config AUDIT_TREE
275 def_bool y
276 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
277 select FSNOTIFY
278
279config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
280 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
281 depends on AUDIT
282 help
283 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
284 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
285 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
286 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
287 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
288 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
289 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
290 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
291 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
292
293source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
294source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
295
296menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
297
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298config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
299 bool
300
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301choice
302 prompt "Cputime accounting"
303 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 304 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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306# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
307config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
308 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
309 depends on !S390
310 help
311 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
312 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
313 granularity.
314
315 If unsure, say Y.
316
abf917cd 317config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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318 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
319 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
abf917cd 320 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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321 help
322 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
323 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
324 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
325 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
326 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
327 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
328 systems.
329
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330config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
331 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
332 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
333 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
334 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
335 help
336 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
337 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
338 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
339 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
340 overhead.
341
342 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
343 dynticks subsystem development.
344
345 If unsure, say N.
346
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347config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
348 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
349 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
350 help
351 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
352 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
353 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
354 small performance impact.
355
356 If in doubt, say N here.
357
358endchoice
359
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360config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
361 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
362 help
363 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
364 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
365 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
366 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
367 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
368 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
369 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
370 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
371 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
372
373config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
374 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
375 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
376 default n
377 help
378 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
379 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
380 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
381 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
382 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 383 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 384
c757249a 385config TASKSTATS
19c92399 386 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
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387 depends on NET
388 default n
389 help
390 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
391 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
392 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
393 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
394 space on task exit.
395
396 Say N if unsure.
397
ca74e92b 398config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 399 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 400 depends on TASKSTATS
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401 help
402 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
403 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
404 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
405 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
406
407 Say N if unsure.
408
18f705f4 409config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 410 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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411 depends on TASKSTATS
412 help
413 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
414 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
415
416 Say N if unsure.
417
418config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 419 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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420 depends on TASK_XACCT
421 help
422 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
423 task has caused.
424
425 Say N if unsure.
426
391dc69c 427endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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429menu "RCU Subsystem"
430
431choice
432 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 433 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 434
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435config TREE_RCU
436 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 437 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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438 help
439 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
440 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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441 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
442 smaller systems.
c903ff83 443
f41d911f 444config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 445 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 446 depends on PREEMPT
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447 help
448 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
449 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
450 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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451 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
452 smaller systems.
f41d911f 453
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454 Select this option if you are unsure.
455
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456config TINY_RCU
457 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 458 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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459 help
460 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
461 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
462 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
463 memory footprint of RCU.
464
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465config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
466 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 467 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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468 help
469 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
470 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
471 memory footprint of RCU.
472
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474
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475config PREEMPT_RCU
476 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
477 help
478 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
479 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
480
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481config RCU_STALL_COMMON
482 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
483 help
484 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
485 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
486 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
487 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
488
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489config CONTEXT_TRACKING
490 bool
491
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492config RCU_USER_QS
493 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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494 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
495 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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496 help
497 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
498 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
499 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
500 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 501 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 502
d677124b 503 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 504 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 505 adds unnecessary overhead.
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507 If unsure say N
508
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509config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
510 bool "Force context tracking"
511 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
1fd2b442 512 help
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513 Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
514 test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
515 quiescent states.
516 This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
517 full dynticks mode.
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520 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
521 range 2 64 if 64BIT
522 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 523 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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525 default 32 if !64BIT
526 help
527 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
528 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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529 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
530 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
531 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
532 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
533 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
534 code paths on small(er) systems.
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536 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
537 Take the default if unsure.
538
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539config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
540 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
541 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
542 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
543 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
544 default 16
545 help
546 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
547 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
548 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
549 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
550 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
551 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
552 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
553 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
554 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
555 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
556 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
557 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
558 leaf-level fanouts work well.
559
560 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
561
562 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
563
564 Take the default if unsure.
565
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567 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 568 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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570 help
571 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
572 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
573 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
574 strong NUMA behavior.
575
576 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
577
578 Say N if unsure.
579
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580config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
581 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 582 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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583 default n
584 help
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585 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in
586 order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly.
587 On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the
588 dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency.
589
590 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
591 care about real-time response.
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593 Say N if you are unsure.
594
c903ff83 595config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 596 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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597 select DEBUG_FS
598 help
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599 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
600 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
601 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 602
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603config RCU_BOOST
604 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 605 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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606 default n
607 help
608 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
609 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
610 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
611 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
612
613 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
614 Say N here if you are unsure.
615
616config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
617 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
618 range 1 99
619 depends on RCU_BOOST
620 default 1
621 help
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622 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
623 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
624 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
625 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
626 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
627 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
628 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
629 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
630
631 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
632 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
633 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
634 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
635 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
636 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
637 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
638 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
639 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
640 set to priority 6 or higher.
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642 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
643
644config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
645 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
646 range 0 3000
647 depends on RCU_BOOST
648 default 500
649 help
650 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
651 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
652 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
653 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
654
655 Accept the default if unsure.
656
3fbfbf7a 657config RCU_NOCB_CPU
34ed6246 658 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL"
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660 default n
661 help
662 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
663 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
664 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
665 asymmetric multiprocessors.
666
667 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
668 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
669 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to
670 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded.
671 Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified
672 CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each
673 callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force
674 the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
675
34ed6246 676 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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678
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680 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
681 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
682 help
683 This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time.
684 Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs=
685 boot parameter.
686
687config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
688 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
689 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
690 help
691 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
692 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
693 no-CBs CPUs.
694
695config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
696 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
697 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
698 help
699 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU. Additional CPUs
700 may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot
701 parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
702
703 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
704 or energy-efficiency reasons.
705
706config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
707 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
708 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
709 help
710 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
711 boot parameter will be ignored.
712
713 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
714 or energy-efficiency reasons.
715
716endchoice
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719
1da177e4 720config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 721 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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722 ---help---
723 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
724 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
725 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
726 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
727 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
728 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
729 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
730 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
731
732config IKCONFIG_PROC
733 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
734 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
735 ---help---
736 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
737 through /proc/config.gz.
738
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740 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
741 range 12 21
f17a32e9 742 default 17
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744 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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746 17 => 128 KB
747 16 => 64 KB
748 15 => 32 KB
749 14 => 16 KB
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750 13 => 8 KB
751 12 => 4 KB
752
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754# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
755#
756config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
757 bool
758
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760# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
761# balancing logic:
762#
763config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
764 bool
765
766# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
767# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
768#
769config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
770 bool
771
772#
773# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
774config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
775 bool
776
777config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
778 bool
779 default y
780 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
781 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
782
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784 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
785 default y
786 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
787 help
788 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
789 machine.
790
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792 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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794 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
795 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
796 help
797 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
798 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
799 it is references to the node the task is running on.
800
801 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
802
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804 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 805 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 806 help
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809 controls or device isolation.
810 See
5cdc38f9 811 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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813 and resource control)
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815 Say N if unsure.
816
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818
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820 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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822 help
823 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
824 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 825 framework.
5cdc38f9 826
23964d2d 827 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 828
5cdc38f9 829config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 830 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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832 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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834
835config CGROUP_DEVICE
836 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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838 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
839 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
840
841config CPUSETS
842 bool "Cpuset support"
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844 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
845 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
846 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
847 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
848
849 Say N if unsure.
850
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852 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
853 depends on CPUSETS
854 default y
855
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857 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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858 help
859 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 860 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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863 bool "Resource counters"
864 help
865 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 866 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 868config MEMCG
00f0b825 869 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 870 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 871 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 872 help
84ad6d70 873 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 874 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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876 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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878 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
879 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
880 at boot.
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882 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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884 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
885 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 886 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
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889 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
890
c255a458 891config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 892 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 893 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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895 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
896 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
897 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
898 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
899 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
900 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
901 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
902 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
903 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
904 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 905 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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907 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 908config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 909 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 910 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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911 default y
912 help
913 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
914 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 915 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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917 parameter should have this option unselected.
918 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
919 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 920 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 921config MEMCG_KMEM
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922 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
923 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 924 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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926 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
927 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
928 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
929 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
930 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
931 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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934 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
19c92399 935 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
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937 help
938 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
939 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
940 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
941 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
942 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
943 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
944 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
945 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
946 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
947
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949 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
950 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
951 help
952 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 953 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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955
956 Say N if unsure.
957
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959 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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961 help
962 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
963 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
964 tasks.
965
966if CGROUP_SCHED
967config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
968 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
969 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
970 default CGROUP_SCHED
971
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973 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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974 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
975 default n
976 help
977 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
978 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
979 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
980 restriction.
981 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
982
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984 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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986 default n
987 help
988 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 989 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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991 realtime bandwidth for them.
992 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
993
994endif #CGROUP_SCHED
995
afc24d49 996config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 997 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 998 depends on BLOCK
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1000 ---help---
1001 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1002 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1003 policies.
1004
1005 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1006 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1008 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1010 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1013 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1014 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1016 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1017
1018config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1019 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1020 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1021 default n
1022 ---help---
1023 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1024 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1025
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1029 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1030 default n
1031 help
1032 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1033 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1034 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1035 entries.
1036
1037 If unsure, say N here.
1038
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1041 default !EXPERT
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1043 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1044 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1045 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1046 different namespaces.
1047
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1049
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1051 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1052 default y
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1054 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1055 uname() system call
1056
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1058 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1059 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1060 default y
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1062 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1063 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1065config USER_NS
19c92399 1066 bool "User namespace"
e1c972b6 1067 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
5673a94c 1068 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
e1c972b6 1069
5673a94c 1070 default n
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1072 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1073 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1075 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1076 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1077 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1078 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1079 use.
1080
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1082
74bd59bb 1083config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1084 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1085 default y
74bd59bb 1086 help
12d2b8f9 1087 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1088 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1090
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1092 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1093 depends on NET
17a6d441 1094 default y
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1096 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1097 of the network stack.
1098
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1100
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1102 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1103 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1104 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1105 # the user namespace.
1106 bool
1107 default y
1108
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1111
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1113 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
e1c972b6 1114 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
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1116 help
1117 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1118 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1119
1120 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
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1123 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1124 select EVENTFD
1125 select CGROUPS
1126 select CGROUP_SCHED
1127 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1128 help
1129 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1130 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1131 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1132 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1133 upon task session.
1134
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1136 bool
1137
1138config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1139 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1141 default n
1142 help
1143 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1144 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1145 /sys/block/.
1146
1147 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1148 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1149
1150 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1151 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1152 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1153
1154 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1155 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1156 option enabled.
1157
1158 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1159 need to say Y here.
1160
1161config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1162 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1164 depends on SYSFS
1165 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1166 help
1167 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1168
1169 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1170 option.
1171
1172 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1173 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1174 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1175
1176config RELAY
1177 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1178 help
1179 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1180 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1181 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1182 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1183 user space.
1184
1185 If unsure, say N.
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1188 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1189 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1190 help
1191 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1192 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1193 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1194 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1195 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1196
1197 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1198 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1199 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1200
1201 If unsure say Y.
1202
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1206
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1208
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96fffeb4 1210 bool "Optimize for size"
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1212 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1213 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1214
3a55fb0d 1215 If unsure, say N.
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1218 bool
1219
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1221 bool
1222
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1224 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1226 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1228 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1229 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1230 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1231 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1232
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1234 bool
1235
ae81f9e3 1236config UID16
6a108a14 1237 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
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1240 help
1241 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1242
b89a8171 1243config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1244 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1245 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1246 default n
b89a8171 1247 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1248 ---help---
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1250 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1251 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1252 information.
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1254 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1255 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1256 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1257
c736de60 1258 If unsure say N here.
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1260config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1261 bool
1262 help
1263 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1264
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1265config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1266 bool
1267 help
1268 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1269 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1270 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1271
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1272config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1273 bool
1274 help
1275 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1276 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1277 the unaligned access emulation.
1278 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1279
1da177e4 1280config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1281 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1282 default y
1283 help
1284 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1285 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1286 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1287
1288config KALLSYMS_ALL
1289 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1291 help
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1293 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1294 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1295 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1296 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1297
1298 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1299 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1300 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1301 something like this).
1302
1303 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 1305config HOTPLUG
45f035ab 1306 def_bool y
712f47ce 1307
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1308config PRINTK
1309 default y
6a108a14 1310 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1311 select IRQ_WORK
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1312 help
1313 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1314 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1315 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1316 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1317 strongly discouraged.
1318
c8538a7a 1319config BUG
6a108a14 1320 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1321 default y
1322 help
1323 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1324 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1325 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1326 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1327 Just say Y.
1328
708e9a79 1329config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1330 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1331 default y
6a108a14 1332 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1333 help
1334 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1335
8761f1ab 1336
e5e1d3cb 1337config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1338 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1339 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1340 select I8253_LOCK
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1341 default y
1342 help
1343 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1344 support, saving some memory.
1345
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1346config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1347 bool
1348
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1349config BASE_FULL
1350 default y
6a108a14 1351 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1352 help
1353 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1354 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1355 but may reduce performance.
1356
1357config FUTEX
6a108a14 1358 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1359 default y
23f78d4a 1360 select RT_MUTEXES
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1361 help
1362 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1363 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1364 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1365
1366config EPOLL
6a108a14 1367 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1368 default y
448e3cee 1369 select ANON_INODES
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1370 help
1371 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1372 support for epoll family of system calls.
1373
fba2afaa 1374config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1375 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1376 select ANON_INODES
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1377 default y
1378 help
1379 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1380 on a file descriptor.
1381
1382 If unsure, say Y.
1383
b215e283 1384config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1385 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1386 select ANON_INODES
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1387 default y
1388 help
1389 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1390 events on a file descriptor.
1391
1392 If unsure, say Y.
1393
e1ad7468 1394config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1395 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1396 select ANON_INODES
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1397 default y
1398 help
1399 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1400 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1401
1402 If unsure, say Y.
1403
1da177e4 1404config SHMEM
6a108a14 1405 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1406 default y
1407 depends on MMU
1408 help
1409 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1410 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1411 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1412 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1413 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1414
ebf3f09c 1415config AIO
6a108a14 1416 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1417 default y
1418 help
1419 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1420 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1421 this option saves about 7k.
1422
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1423config EMBEDDED
1424 bool "Embedded system"
1425 select EXPERT
1426 help
1427 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1428 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1429 for configuration.
1430
cdd6c482 1431config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1432 bool
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1433 help
1434 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1436config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1437 bool
1438 help
1439 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1440
57c0c15b 1441menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1442
cdd6c482 1443config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1444 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1445 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1446 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1447 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1448 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1449 help
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1450 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1451 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1452
dd77038d 1453 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1454 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1455
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1456 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1457 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1458 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1459 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1460 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1461 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1462 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1463
57c0c15b 1464 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1465 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1466 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1467 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1468 capabilities on top of those.
1469
1470 Say Y if unsure.
1471
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1472config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1473 default n
1474 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1475 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1476 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1477 help
1478 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1479
1480 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1481 that don't require it.
1482
1483 Say N if unsure.
1484
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1486
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1487config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1488 default y
6a108a14 1489 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1490 help
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1491 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1492 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1493 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1494 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1496config PCI_QUIRKS
1497 default y
6a108a14 1498 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1499 depends on PCI
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1500 help
1501 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1502 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1503 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1504
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1505config SLUB_DEBUG
1506 default y
6a108a14 1507 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1508 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1509 help
1510 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1511 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1512 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1513 no support for cache validation etc.
1514
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1516 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1517 default y
1518 help
1519 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1520 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1521 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1522 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1523 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1524
1525 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1526
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1528 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1529 default SLUB
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1530 help
1531 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1532
1533config SLAB
1534 bool "SLAB"
1535 help
1536 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1537 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1538 per cpu and per node queues.
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1540config SLUB
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1541 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1542 help
1543 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1544 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1545 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1546 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1547 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1548 a slab allocator.
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1550config SLOB
6a108a14 1551 depends on EXPERT
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1552 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1553 help
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1554 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1555 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1556 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1558endchoice
1559
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1560config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1561 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1562 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1563 default n
1564 help
1565 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1566 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1567 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1568 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1569 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1570 then the flag will be ignored.
1571
1572 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1573 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1574
1575 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1576 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1577 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1578 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1579
1580 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1581
125e5645 1582config PROFILING
b309a294 1583 bool "Profiling support"
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1584 help
1585 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1586 by profilers such as OProfile.
1587
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1588#
1589# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1590# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1591#
97e1c18e 1592config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1593 bool
97e1c18e 1594
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1595source "arch/Kconfig"
1596
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1597endmenu # General setup
1598
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1599config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1600 bool
1601 default n
1602
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1603config SLABINFO
1604 bool
1605 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1606 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1607 default y
1608
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1609config RT_MUTEXES
1610 boolean
ae81f9e3 1611
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1612config BASE_SMALL
1613 int
1614 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1615 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1616
66da5733 1617menuconfig MODULES
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1618 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1619 help
1620 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1621 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1622 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1623 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1624 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1625 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1626 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1627 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1628 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1629
1630 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1631 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1632 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1633 this).
1634
1635 If unsure, say Y.
1636
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1637if MODULES
1638
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1639config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1640 bool "Forced module loading"
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1641 default n
1642 help
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1643 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1644 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1645 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1646
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1647config MODULE_UNLOAD
1648 bool "Module unloading"
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1649 help
1650 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1651 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1652 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1653 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1654
1655config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1656 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1657 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1658 help
1659 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1660 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1661 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1662 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1663 If unsure, say N.
1664
1da177e4 1665config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1666 bool "Module versioning support"
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1667 help
1668 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1669 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1670 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1671 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1672 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1673 unsure, say N.
1674
1675config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1676 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1677 help
1678 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1679 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1680 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1681 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1682 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1683 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1684 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1685
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1686config MODULE_SIG
1687 bool "Module signature verification"
1688 depends on MODULES
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1689 select KEYS
1690 select CRYPTO
1691 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1692 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1693 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1694 select ASN1
1695 select OID_REGISTRY
1696 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1697 help
1698 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1699 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1700 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1701
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1702 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1703 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1704 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1705 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1706
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1707config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1708 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1709 depends on MODULE_SIG
1710 help
1711 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1712 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
ea0b6dcf 1713
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1714config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1715 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1716 default y
1717 depends on MODULE_SIG
1718 help
1719 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1720 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1721
1722comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1723 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1724
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1725choice
1726 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1727 depends on MODULE_SIG
1728 help
1729 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1730 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1731 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1732 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1733 the signature on that module.
1734
1735config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1736 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1737 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1738
1739config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1740 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1741 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1742
1743config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1744 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1745 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1746
1747config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1748 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1749 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1750
1751config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1752 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1753 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1754
1755endchoice
1756
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1758 string
1759 depends on MODULE_SIG
1760 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1761 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1762 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1763 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1764 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1765
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1767
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1768config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1769 bool
1770 help
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1771 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1772 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1773 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1774 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1775 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1776
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1777config STOP_MACHINE
1778 bool
1779 default y
1780 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1781 help
1782 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1783
3a65dfe8 1784source "block/Kconfig"
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1786config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1787 bool
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1789config PADATA
1790 depends on SMP
1791 bool
1792
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1793# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1794# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1795# mappings
1796config BROKEN_RODATA
1797 bool
1798
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1799config ASN1
1800 tristate
1801 help
1802 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1803 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1804 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1805 functions to call on what tags.
1806
6beb0009 1807source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"