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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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31config BROKEN
32 bool
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33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
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39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
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41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 43 help
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44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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1da177e4 47
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48config CROSS_COMPILE
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
50 help
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
55
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56config COMPILE_TEST
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58 default n
59 help
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
65
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
72 help
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
79
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80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82 default y
83 help
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
86 top of tree revision.
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87
88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 92
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93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
95
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
97
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
101 bool
102
103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
104 bool
105
106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
107 bool
108
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
110 bool
111
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
113 bool
114
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115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116 bool
117
30d65dbf 118choice
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119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 122 help
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123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
128
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
133
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
136 size matters less.
137
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
139
140config KERNEL_GZIP
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141 bool "Gzip"
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
143 help
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144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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146
147config KERNEL_BZIP2
148 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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150 help
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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156
157config KERNEL_LZMA
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158 bool "LZMA"
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
160 help
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161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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165config KERNEL_XZ
166 bool "XZ"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 help
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
175
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
179
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180config KERNEL_LZO
181 bool "LZO"
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
183 help
0a4dd35c 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
187
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188config KERNEL_LZ4
189 bool "LZ4"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191 help
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198 faster than LZO.
199
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200endchoice
201
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202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
204 default "(none)"
205 help
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
210
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211config SWAP
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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214 default y
215 help
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
220
221config SYSVIPC
222 bool "System V IPC"
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223 ---help---
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
231
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
235
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236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237 bool
238 depends on SYSVIPC
239 depends on SYSCTL
240 default y
241
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242config POSIX_MQUEUE
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 244 depends on NET
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245 ---help---
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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251
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
255
256 If unsure, say Y.
257
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258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259 bool
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261 depends on SYSCTL
262 default y
263
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264config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266 depends on MMU
267 default y
268 help
269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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272 See the man page for more details.
273
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274config FHANDLE
275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276 select EXPORTFS
277 help
278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284 syscalls.
285
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286config USELIB
287 bool "uselib syscall"
288 default y
289 help
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
295
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296config AUDIT
297 bool "Auditing support"
298 depends on NET
299 help
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
304
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
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308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
312 help
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
315 such as SELinux.
316
317config AUDIT_WATCH
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
322config AUDIT_TREE
323 def_bool y
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325 select FSNOTIFY
326
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327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329
330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331
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332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333 bool
334
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335choice
336 prompt "Cputime accounting"
337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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344 help
345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347 granularity.
348
349 If unsure, say Y.
350
abf917cd 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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355 help
356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362 systems.
363
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364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370 help
371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375 overhead.
376
377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378 dynticks subsystem development.
379
380 If unsure, say N.
381
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382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
c58b0df1 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
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385 help
386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389 small performance impact.
390
391 If in doubt, say N here.
392
393endchoice
394
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395config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 397 depends on MULTIUSER
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398 help
399 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
400 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
401 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
402 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
403 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
404 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
405 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
406 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
407 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
408
409config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
410 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
411 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
412 default n
413 help
414 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
415 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
416 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
417 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
418 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 419 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 420
c757249a 421config TASKSTATS
19c92399 422 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 423 depends on NET
2813893f 424 depends on MULTIUSER
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425 default n
426 help
427 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
428 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
429 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
430 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
431 space on task exit.
432
433 Say N if unsure.
434
ca74e92b 435config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 436 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 437 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 438 select SCHED_INFO
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439 help
440 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
441 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
442 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
443 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
444
445 Say N if unsure.
446
18f705f4 447config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 448 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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449 depends on TASKSTATS
450 help
451 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
452 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
453
454 Say N if unsure.
455
456config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 457 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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458 depends on TASK_XACCT
459 help
460 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
461 task has caused.
462
463 Say N if unsure.
464
391dc69c 465endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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468
c903ff83 469config TREE_RCU
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470 bool
471 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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472 help
473 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
474 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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475 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
476 smaller systems.
c903ff83 477
28f6569a 478config PREEMPT_RCU
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479 bool
480 default y if PREEMPT
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481 help
482 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
483 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
484 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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485 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
486 smaller systems.
f41d911f 487
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488 Select this option if you are unsure.
489
9b1d82fa 490config TINY_RCU
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491 bool
492 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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493 help
494 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
495 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
496 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
497 memory footprint of RCU.
498
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499config RCU_EXPERT
500 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
501 default n
502 help
503 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
504 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
505 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
506 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
507 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
508 obscure RCU options to be set up.
509
510 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
511
512 Say N if you are unsure.
513
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514config SRCU
515 bool
516 help
517 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
518 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
519 sections.
520
8315f422 521config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 522 bool
8315f422 523 default n
83fe27ea 524 select SRCU
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525 help
526 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
527 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
528 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
529
6bfc09e2 530config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 531 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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532 help
533 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
534 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
535 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
536 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
537
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538config CONTEXT_TRACKING
539 bool
540
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541config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
542 bool "Force context tracking"
543 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 544 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 545 help
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546 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
547 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
548 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
549 dynticks working.
550
551 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
552 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
553 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
554 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
555 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
556 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
557 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
558 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
559 CPUs in the system.
560
99c8b1ea 561 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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562 architecture backend for the context tracking.
563
564 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
565 don't want in production.
566
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569 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
570 range 2 64 if 64BIT
571 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 572 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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574 default 32 if !64BIT
575 help
576 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
577 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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578 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
579 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
580 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
581 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
582 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
583 code paths on small(er) systems.
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585 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
586 Take the default if unsure.
587
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588config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
589 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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590 range 2 64 if 64BIT
591 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 592 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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593 default 16
594 help
595 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
596 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
597 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
598 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
599 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
600 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
601 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
602 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
603 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
604 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
605 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
606 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
607 leaf-level fanouts work well.
608
609 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
610
611 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
612
613 Take the default if unsure.
614
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615config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
616 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 617 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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618 default n
619 help
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620 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
621 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
622 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
623 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
624 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
625 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
626 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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628 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
629 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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631 Say N if you are unsure.
632
c903ff83 633config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 634 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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636 help
f41d911f 637 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 638 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 639 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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641config RCU_BOOST
642 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 643 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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645 help
646 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
647 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
648 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
649 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
650
651 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
652 Say N here if you are unsure.
653
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655 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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657 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
658 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
659 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 660 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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662 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
663 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
664 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
665 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
666 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
667 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
668 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
669 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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671
672 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
673 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
674 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 675 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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677 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
678 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
679 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 680 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 681 set to priority 6 or higher.
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683 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
684
685config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
686 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
687 range 0 3000
688 depends on RCU_BOOST
689 default 500
690 help
691 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
692 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
693 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
694 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
695
696 Accept the default if unsure.
697
3fbfbf7a 698config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 699 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 700 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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702 help
703 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
704 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
705 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
706 asymmetric multiprocessors.
707
708 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
709 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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710 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
711 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
712 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
713 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
714 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
715 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
716 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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720
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722 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
723 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 724 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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726 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
727 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
728 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
729 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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731config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
732 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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734 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
735 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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737 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
738 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
739
740 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
741 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
742 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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744config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
745 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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748 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
749 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
750 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
751 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
752 context.
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754 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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756 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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758config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
759 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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761 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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763 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
764 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
765 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
766 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
767 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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769 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
770 or energy-efficiency reasons.
771
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775 bool
776 default n
777 help
778 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
779 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
780 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
781 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
782 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
783 init is exec'ed.
784
785 Accept the default if unsure.
786
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788
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790 bool
791 default n
792
1da177e4 793config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 794 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 795 select BUILD_BIN2C
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796 ---help---
797 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
798 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
799 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
800 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
801 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
802 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
803 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
804 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
805
806config IKCONFIG_PROC
807 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
808 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
809 ---help---
810 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
811 through /proc/config.gz.
812
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814 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 815 range 12 25
f17a32e9 816 default 17
361e9dfb 817 depends on PRINTK
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820 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
821 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
822 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
823
f17a32e9 824 Examples:
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828 14 => 16 KB
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830 12 => 4 KB
831
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833 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 834 depends on SMP
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835 range 0 21
836 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
837 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 838 depends on PRINTK
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840 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
841 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
842 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
843 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
844 e.g. backtraces.
845
846 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
847 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
848 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
849 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
850 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
851 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
852
853 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
854 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
855
856 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
857 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
858 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
859
860 Examples shift values and their meaning:
861 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
862 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
863 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
864 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
865 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
866 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
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869# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
870#
871config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
872 bool
873
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875 bool
876
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878# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
879# balancing logic:
880#
881config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
882 bool
883
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885# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
886#
887config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
888 bool
889
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891# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
892#
893config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
894 bool
895
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897 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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899 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
900 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
901 help
902 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
903 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 904 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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906 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
907
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909 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
910 default y
911 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
912 help
913 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
914 machine.
915
23964d2d 916menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 917 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 918 select KERNFS
d59cfc09 919 select PERCPU_RWSEM
5cdc38f9 920 help
23964d2d 921 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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923 controls or device isolation.
924 See
5cdc38f9 925 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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927 and resource control)
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929 Say N if unsure.
930
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932
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934 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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936 help
937 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
938 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 939 framework.
5cdc38f9 940
23964d2d 941 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 942
5cdc38f9 943config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 944 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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946 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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948
949config CGROUP_DEVICE
950 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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952 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
953 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
954
955config CPUSETS
956 bool "Cpuset support"
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958 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
959 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
960 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
961 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
962
963 Say N if unsure.
964
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966 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
967 depends on CPUSETS
968 default y
969
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971 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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973 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 974 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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977 bool
978
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00f0b825 980 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 981 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 982 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 983 help
84ad6d70 984 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 985 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 986
c255a458 987config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 988 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 989 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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991 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
992 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
993 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
994 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
995 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
996 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
997 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
998 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
999 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1000 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1001 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1003 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1004config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1005 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1006 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1007 default y
1008 help
1009 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1010 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1011 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1012 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1013 parameter should have this option unselected.
1014 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1015 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1016 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1017config MEMCG_KMEM
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1018 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1019 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1020 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1022 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1023 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1024 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1025 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1026 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1027 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1030 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1032 select PAGE_COUNTER
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1034 help
1035 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1036 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1037 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1038 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1039 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1040 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1041 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1042 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1043 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1044
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1046 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1047 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1048 help
1049 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1050 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1052
1053 Say N if unsure.
1054
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1056 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1058 help
1059 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1060 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1061 tasks.
1062
1063if CGROUP_SCHED
1064config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1065 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1066 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1067 default CGROUP_SCHED
1068
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1070 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1071 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1072 default n
1073 help
1074 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1075 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1076 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1077 restriction.
1078 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1079
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1081 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1083 default n
1084 help
1085 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1086 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1088 realtime bandwidth for them.
1089 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1090
1091endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1092
afc24d49 1093config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1094 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1095 depends on BLOCK
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1097 ---help---
1098 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1099 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1100 policies.
1101
1102 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1103 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1105 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1107 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1110 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1111 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1113 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1114
1115config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1116 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1117 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1118 default n
1119 ---help---
1120 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1121 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1122
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1124 bool
1125 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1126 default y
1127
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1131 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1132 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1134 help
1135 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1136 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1137 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1138 entries.
1139
1140 If unsure, say N here.
1141
8dd2a82c 1142menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1143 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1144 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1145 default !EXPERT
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1147 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1148 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1149 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1150 different namespaces.
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1155 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1156 default y
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1158 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1159 uname() system call
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1162 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1163 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1164 default y
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1166 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1167 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1169config USER_NS
19c92399 1170 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1171 default n
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1173 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1174 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1176 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1177 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1178 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1179 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1180 use.
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1183
74bd59bb 1184config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1185 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1186 default y
74bd59bb 1187 help
12d2b8f9 1188 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1189 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1191
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1193 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1194 depends on NET
17a6d441 1195 default y
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1197 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1198 of the network stack.
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1203 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1205 select CGROUP_SCHED
1206 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1207 help
1208 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1209 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1210 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1211 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1212 upon task session.
1213
7af37bec 1214config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1215 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1217 default n
1218 help
1219 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1220 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1221 /sys/block/.
1222
1223 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1224 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1225
1226 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1227 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1228 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1229
1230 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1231 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1232 option enabled.
1233
1234 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1235 need to say Y here.
1236
1237config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1238 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1239 default n
1240 depends on SYSFS
1241 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1242 help
1243 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1244
1245 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1246 option.
1247
1248 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1249 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1250 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1251
1252config RELAY
1253 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1254 help
1255 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1256 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1257 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1258 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1259 user space.
1260
1261 If unsure, say N.
1262
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1263config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1264 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1265 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1266 help
1267 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1268 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1269 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1270 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1271 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1272
1273 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1274 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1275 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1276
1277 If unsure say Y.
1278
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1279if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1280
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1282
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1283endif
1284
c45b4f1f 1285config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1286 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1287 help
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1288 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1289 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1290
3a55fb0d 1291 If unsure, say N.
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1293config SYSCTL
1294 bool
1295
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1296config ANON_INODES
1297 bool
1298
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1299config HAVE_UID16
1300 bool
1301
1302config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1303 bool
1304 help
1305 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1306
1307config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1308 bool
1309 help
1310 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1311 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1312 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1313
1314config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1315 bool
1316 help
1317 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1318 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1319 the unaligned access emulation.
1320 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1321
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1322config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1323 bool
1324
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1326config BPF
1327 bool
1328
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1329menuconfig EXPERT
1330 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1331 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1332 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1333 help
1334 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1335 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1336 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1337 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1338
ae81f9e3 1339config UID16
6a108a14 1340 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1341 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1342 default y
1343 help
1344 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1345
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1347 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1348 default y
1349 help
1350 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1351 capabilities.
1352
1353 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1354 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1355 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1356 setgid, and capset.
1357
1358 If unsure, say Y here.
1359
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1360config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1361 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1362 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1363 ---help---
1364 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1365 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1366 architectures.
1367
1368 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1369
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1370config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1371 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1372 default y
1373 ---help---
1374 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1375 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1376 compatibility with some systems.
1377
1378 If unsure say Y here.
1379
b89a8171 1380config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1381 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1382 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1383 default n
b89a8171 1384 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1385 ---help---
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1386 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1387 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1388 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1389 information.
b89a8171 1390
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1391 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1392 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1393 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1394
c736de60 1395 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1396
1da177e4 1397config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1398 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1399 default y
1400 help
1401 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1402 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1403 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1404
1405config KALLSYMS_ALL
1406 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1408 help
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1409 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1410 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1411 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1412 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1413 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1414
1415 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1416 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1417 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1418 something like this).
1419
1420 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1422config PRINTK
1423 default y
6a108a14 1424 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1425 select IRQ_WORK
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1426 help
1427 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1428 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1429 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1430 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1431 strongly discouraged.
1432
c8538a7a 1433config BUG
6a108a14 1434 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1435 default y
1436 help
1437 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1438 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1439 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1440 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1441 Just say Y.
1442
708e9a79 1443config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1444 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1445 default y
6a108a14 1446 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1447 help
1448 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1449
8761f1ab 1450
e5e1d3cb 1451config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1452 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1453 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1454 select I8253_LOCK
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1455 default y
1456 help
1457 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1458 support, saving some memory.
1459
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1460config BASE_FULL
1461 default y
6a108a14 1462 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1463 help
1464 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1465 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1466 but may reduce performance.
1467
1468config FUTEX
6a108a14 1469 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1470 default y
23f78d4a 1471 select RT_MUTEXES
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1472 help
1473 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1474 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1475 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1476
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1477config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1478 bool
62b4d204 1479 depends on FUTEX
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1480 help
1481 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1482 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1483 checks.
1484
1da177e4 1485config EPOLL
6a108a14 1486 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1487 default y
448e3cee 1488 select ANON_INODES
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1489 help
1490 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1491 support for epoll family of system calls.
1492
fba2afaa 1493config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1494 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1495 select ANON_INODES
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1496 default y
1497 help
1498 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1499 on a file descriptor.
1500
1501 If unsure, say Y.
1502
b215e283 1503config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1504 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1505 select ANON_INODES
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1506 default y
1507 help
1508 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1509 events on a file descriptor.
1510
1511 If unsure, say Y.
1512
e1ad7468 1513config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1514 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1515 select ANON_INODES
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1516 default y
1517 help
1518 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1519 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1520
1521 If unsure, say Y.
1522
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1524config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1525 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1526 select ANON_INODES
1527 select BPF
1528 default n
1529 help
1530 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1531 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1532
1da177e4 1533config SHMEM
6a108a14 1534 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1535 default y
1536 depends on MMU
1537 help
1538 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1539 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1540 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1541 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1542 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1543
ebf3f09c 1544config AIO
6a108a14 1545 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1546 default y
1547 help
1548 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1549 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1550 this option saves about 7k.
1551
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1552config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1553 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1554 default y
1555 help
1556 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1557 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1558 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1559 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1560 space.
1561
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1562config PCI_QUIRKS
1563 default y
1564 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1565 depends on PCI
1566 help
1567 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1568 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1569 unaffected by PCI quirks.
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1571config EMBEDDED
1572 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1573 option allnoconfig_y
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1574 select EXPERT
1575 help
1576 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1577 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1578 for configuration.
1579
cdd6c482 1580config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1581 bool
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1582 help
1583 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1584
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1585config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1586 bool
1587 help
1588 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1589
57c0c15b 1590menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1591
cdd6c482 1592config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1593 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1594 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1595 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1596 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1597 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1598 select SRCU
0793a61d 1599 help
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1600 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1601 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1602
dd77038d 1603 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1604 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1605
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1606 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1607 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1608 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1609 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1610 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1611 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1612 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1613
57c0c15b 1614 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1615 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1616 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1617 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1618 capabilities on top of those.
1619
1620 Say Y if unsure.
1621
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1622config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1623 default n
1624 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1625 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1626 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1627 help
1628 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1629
1630 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1631 that don't require it.
1632
1633 Say N if unsure.
1634
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1636
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1637config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1638 default y
6a108a14 1639 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1640 help
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1641 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1642 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1643 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1644 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1645
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1646config SLUB_DEBUG
1647 default y
6a108a14 1648 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1649 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1650 help
1651 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1652 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1653 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1654 no support for cache validation etc.
1655
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1656config COMPAT_BRK
1657 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1658 default y
1659 help
1660 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1661 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1662 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1663 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1664 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1665
1666 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1667
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1668choice
1669 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1670 default SLUB
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1671 help
1672 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1673
1674config SLAB
1675 bool "SLAB"
1676 help
1677 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1678 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1679 per cpu and per node queues.
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1681config SLUB
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1682 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1683 help
1684 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1685 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1686 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1687 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1688 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1689 a slab allocator.
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1691config SLOB
6a108a14 1692 depends on EXPERT
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1693 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1694 help
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1695 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1696 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1697 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1699endchoice
1700
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1701config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1702 default y
b39ffbf8 1703 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1704 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1705 help
1706 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1707 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1708 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1709 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1710 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1711
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1712config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1713 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1714 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1715 default n
1716 help
1717 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1718 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1719 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1720 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1721 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1722 then the flag will be ignored.
1723
1724 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1725 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1726
1727 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1728 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1729 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1730 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1731
1732 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1733
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1734config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1735 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1736 depends on KEYS
1737 help
1738 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1739 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1740 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1741 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1742 keys already in the keyring.
1743
1744 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1745
125e5645 1746config PROFILING
b309a294 1747 bool "Profiling support"
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1748 help
1749 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1750 by profilers such as OProfile.
1751
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1753# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1754# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1755#
97e1c18e 1756config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1757 bool
97e1c18e 1758
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1760
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1762
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1763config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1764 bool
1765 default n
1766
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1767config SLABINFO
1768 bool
1769 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1770 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1771 default y
1772
ae81f9e3 1773config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1774 bool
ae81f9e3 1775
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1776config BASE_SMALL
1777 int
1778 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1779 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1780
66da5733 1781menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1782 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1783 option modules
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1784 help
1785 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1786 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1787 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1788 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1789 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1790 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1791 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1792 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1793 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1794
1795 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1796 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1797 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1798 this).
1799
1800 If unsure, say Y.
1801
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1802if MODULES
1803
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1804config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1805 bool "Forced module loading"
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1806 default n
1807 help
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1808 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1809 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1810 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1811
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1812config MODULE_UNLOAD
1813 bool "Module unloading"
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1814 help
1815 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1816 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1817 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1818 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1819
1820config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1821 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1822 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1823 help
1824 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1825 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1826 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1827 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1828 If unsure, say N.
1829
1da177e4 1830config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1831 bool "Module versioning support"
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1832 help
1833 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1834 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1835 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1836 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1837 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1838 unsure, say N.
1839
1840config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1841 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1843 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1844 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1845 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1846 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1847 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1848 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1849 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1850
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1851config MODULE_SIG
1852 bool "Module signature verification"
1853 depends on MODULES
b56e5a17 1854 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
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1855 select KEYS
1856 select CRYPTO
1857 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1858 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1859 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1860 select ASN1
1861 select OID_REGISTRY
1862 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1864 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1865 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1866 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1867
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1868 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1869 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1870 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1871 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1872
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1874 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1875 depends on MODULE_SIG
1876 help
1877 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1878 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1881 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1882 default y
1883 depends on MODULE_SIG
1884 help
1885 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1886 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1887
1888comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1889 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1890
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1892 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1893 depends on MODULE_SIG
1894 help
1895 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1896 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1897 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1898 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1899 the signature on that module.
1900
1901config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1902 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1903 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1904
1905config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1906 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1907 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1908
1909config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1910 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1911 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1912
1913config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1914 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1915 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1916
1917config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1918 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1919 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1920
1921endchoice
1922
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1923config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1924 string
1925 depends on MODULE_SIG
1926 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1927 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1928 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1929 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1930 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1931
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1932config MODULE_COMPRESS
1933 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1934 depends on MODULES
1935 help
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1937 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1938 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 1940 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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1942 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1943 compressed upon installation.
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1945 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1946 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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1948 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1949
1950 If in doubt, say N.
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1952choice
1953 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1954 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1955 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1956 help
1957 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1958 'make modules_install'.
1959
1960 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1961
1962config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1963 bool "GZIP"
1964
1965config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1966 bool "XZ"
1967
1968endchoice
1969
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1971
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1972config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1973 def_bool y
1974 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
1975
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1976config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1977 bool
1978 help
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1979 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1980 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1982 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1983 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1985config STOP_MACHINE
1986 bool
1987 default y
1988 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1989 help
1990 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1992source "block/Kconfig"
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1994config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1995 bool
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1997config PADATA
1998 depends on SMP
1999 bool
2000
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2001# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2002# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2003# mappings
2004config BROKEN_RODATA
2005 bool
2006
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2007config ASN1
2008 tristate
2009 help
2010 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2011 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2012 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2013 functions to call on what tags.
2014
6beb0009 2015source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"