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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
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29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30 bool
31 help
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35
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36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
38
ff0cfc66 39menu "General setup"
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41config BROKEN
42 bool
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43
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
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49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
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51 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 53 help
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54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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58config CROSS_COMPILE
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
60 help
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
65
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66config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 68 depends on !UML
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69 default n
70 help
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
76
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
80
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81config LOCALVERSION
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
83 help
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
90
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91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
ac3339ba 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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95 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
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99
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
107
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
109
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
30d65dbf 130choice
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131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 134 help
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135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
140
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
145
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
148 size matters less.
149
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
151
152config KERNEL_GZIP
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153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
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156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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168
169config KERNEL_LZMA
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170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
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173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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177config KERNEL_XZ
178 bool "XZ"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
180 help
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
187
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
191
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192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
0a4dd35c 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
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200config KERNEL_LZ4
201 bool "LZ4"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203 help
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
207
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
210 faster than LZO.
211
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212endchoice
213
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214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
216 default "(none)"
217 help
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
222
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223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
232
233config SYSVIPC
234 bool "System V IPC"
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235 ---help---
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
243
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
247
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248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
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254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 256 depends on NET
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257 ---help---
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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263
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
267
268 If unsure, say Y.
269
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270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
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276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
278 depends on MMU
279 default y
280 help
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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284 See the man page for more details.
285
391dc69c 286config FHANDLE
f76be617 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 288 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 289 default y
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290 help
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
297 syscalls.
298
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299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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302 help
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
308
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309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
311 depends on NET
312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
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318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
391dc69c 321config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 322 def_bool y
7a017721 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
329
330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
333 select FSNOTIFY
334
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335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
337
338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
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340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
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343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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347
348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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352 help
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
355 granularity.
356
357 If unsure, say Y.
358
abf917cd 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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363 help
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
370 systems.
371
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372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
378 help
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
383 overhead.
384
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
387
388 If unsure, say N.
389
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391
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392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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395 help
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
400
401 If in doubt, say N here.
402
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403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 405 depends on MULTIUSER
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406 help
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
416
417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
420 default n
421 help
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 428
c757249a 429config TASKSTATS
19c92399 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 431 depends on NET
2813893f 432 depends on MULTIUSER
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433 default n
434 help
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
439 space on task exit.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
ca74e92b 443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 445 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 446 select SCHED_INFO
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447 help
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
18f705f4 455config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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457 depends on TASKSTATS
458 help
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
464config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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466 depends on TASK_XACCT
467 help
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
469 task has caused.
470
471 Say N if unsure.
472
391dc69c 473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 474
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475menu "RCU Subsystem"
476
c903ff83 477config TREE_RCU
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478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
c903ff83 485
28f6569a 486config PREEMPT_RCU
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487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
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489 help
490 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
491 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
492 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
f41d911f 495
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496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
9b1d82fa 498config TINY_RCU
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499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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501 help
502 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
503 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
504 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
505 memory footprint of RCU.
506
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507config RCU_EXPERT
508 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
509 default n
510 help
511 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
512 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
513 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
514 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
515 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
516 obscure RCU options to be set up.
517
518 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
519
520 Say N if you are unsure.
521
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522config SRCU
523 bool
524 help
525 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
526 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
527 sections.
528
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529config TINY_SRCU
530 bool
bd8cc5a0 531 default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
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532 help
533 This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
534
535config TREE_SRCU
536 bool
bd8cc5a0 537 default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
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538 help
539 This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
540
8315f422 541config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 542 bool
8315f422 543 default n
83fe27ea 544 select SRCU
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545 help
546 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
547 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
548 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
549
6bfc09e2 550config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 551 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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552 help
553 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
554 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
555 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
556 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
557
98059b98 558config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
2464dd94 559 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
98059b98 560
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561config CONTEXT_TRACKING
562 bool
563
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564config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
565 bool "Force context tracking"
566 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 567 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 568 help
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569 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
570 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
571 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
572 dynticks working.
573
574 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
575 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
576 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
577 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
578 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
579 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
580 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
581 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
582 CPUs in the system.
583
99c8b1ea 584 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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585 architecture backend for the context tracking.
586
587 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
588 don't want in production.
589
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591config RCU_FANOUT
592 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
593 range 2 64 if 64BIT
594 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 595 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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596 default 64 if 64BIT
597 default 32 if !64BIT
598 help
599 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
600 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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601 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
602 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
603 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
604 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
605 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
606 code paths on small(er) systems.
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608 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
609 Take the default if unsure.
610
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611config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
612 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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613 range 2 64 if 64BIT
614 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 615 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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616 default 16
617 help
618 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
619 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
620 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
621 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
622 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
623 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
624 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
625 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
626 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
627 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
628 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
629 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
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630 leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level
631 fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
632 lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
633 you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
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634
635 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
636
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637 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
638 please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
639 kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
640 structure's locks.
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642 Take the default if unsure.
643
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645 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 646 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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647 default n
648 help
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650 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
651 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
652 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
653 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
654 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
655 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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658 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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660 Say N if you are unsure.
661
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663 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 664 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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666 help
667 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
668 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
669 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
670 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
671
672 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
673 Say N here if you are unsure.
674
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676 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
677 range 0 3000
678 depends on RCU_BOOST
679 default 500
680 help
681 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
682 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
683 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
684 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
685
686 Accept the default if unsure.
687
3fbfbf7a 688config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 689 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 690 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 691 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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693 help
694 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
695 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
696 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
697 asymmetric multiprocessors.
698
699 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
700 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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702 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
703 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
704 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
705 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
706 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
707 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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34ed6246 709 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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711
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713
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714config BUILD_BIN2C
715 bool
716 default n
717
1da177e4 718config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 719 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 720 select BUILD_BIN2C
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722 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
723 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
724 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
725 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
726 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
727 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
728 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
729 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
730
731config IKCONFIG_PROC
732 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
733 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
734 ---help---
735 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
736 through /proc/config.gz.
737
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739 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 740 range 12 25
f17a32e9 741 default 17
361e9dfb 742 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 743 help
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745 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
746 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
747 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
748
f17a32e9 749 Examples:
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f17a32e9 751 16 => 64 KB
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753 14 => 16 KB
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755 12 => 4 KB
756
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758 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 759 depends on SMP
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761 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
762 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 763 depends on PRINTK
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765 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
766 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
767 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
768 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
769 e.g. backtraces.
770
771 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
772 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
773 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
774 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
775 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
776 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
777
778 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
779 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
780
781 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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783 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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785 Examples shift values and their meaning:
786 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
787 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
788 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
789 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
790 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
791 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
792
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794 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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796 default 13
f92bac3b 797 depends on PRINTK
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799 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
800 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
801 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
802 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
803 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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807 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
808
809 Examples:
810 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
811 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
812 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
813 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
814 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
815 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
816
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818# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
819#
820config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
821 bool
822
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824 bool
825
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827# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
828# balancing logic:
829#
830config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
831 bool
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834# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
835# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
836# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
837# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
838# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
839# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
840config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
841 bool
842
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844# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
845#
846config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
847 bool
848
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850# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
851#
852config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
853 bool
854
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856 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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858 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
859 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
860 help
861 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
862 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 863 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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865 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
866
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868 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
869 default y
870 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
871 help
872 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
873 machine.
874
23964d2d 875menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 876 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 877 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 878 help
23964d2d 879 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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881 controls or device isolation.
882 See
5cdc38f9 883 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 884 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 885 and resource control)
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887 Say N if unsure.
888
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890
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892 bool
893
c255a458 894config MEMCG
a0166ec4 895 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 896 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 897 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 898 help
a0166ec4 899 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 900
c255a458 901config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 902 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 903 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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906
c255a458 907config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 908 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 909 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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911 help
912 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
913 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 914 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 915 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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917 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
918 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 919 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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922 bool "IO controller"
923 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 924 default n
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925 ---help---
926 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
927 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
928 policies.
2bc64a20 929
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930 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
931 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
932 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
933 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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936 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
937 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
938 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
939 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
940
9991a9c8 941 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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943config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
944 bool "IO controller debugging"
945 depends on BLK_CGROUP
946 default n
947 ---help---
948 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
949 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
950
951config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
952 bool
953 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
954 default y
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7c941438 956menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 957 bool "CPU controller"
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959 help
960 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
961 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
962 tasks.
963
964if CGROUP_SCHED
965config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
966 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
967 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
968 default CGROUP_SCHED
969
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971 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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973 default n
974 help
975 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
976 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
977 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
978 restriction.
979 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
980
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982 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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984 default n
985 help
986 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 987 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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988 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
989 realtime bandwidth for them.
990 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
991
992endif #CGROUP_SCHED
993
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995 bool "PIDs controller"
996 help
997 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
998 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
999 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1000 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1001 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1002 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1003 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1005 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1006 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1008 attach to a cgroup.
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1011 bool "RDMA controller"
1012 help
1013 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1014 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1015 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1016 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1017 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1018 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1019
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1021 bool "Freezer controller"
1022 help
1023 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1024 cgroup.
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1027 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1028
1029 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1030
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1032 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1033 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1034 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1035 default n
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1037 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1038 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1039 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1040 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1041 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1042 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1043 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1044 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1045 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1048 bool "Cpuset controller"
1049 help
1050 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1051 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1052 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1053 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1054
6bf024e6 1055 Say N if unsure.
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1058 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1059 depends on CPUSETS
1060 default y
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1063 bool "Device controller"
1064 help
1065 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1066 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1067
1068config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1069 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1070 help
1071 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1072 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1073
1074config CGROUP_PERF
1075 bool "Perf controller"
1076 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1077 help
1078 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1079 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1080 designated cpu.
1081
1082 Say N if unsure.
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1085 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1089 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1090 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1091
1092 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1093 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1094 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1095 inet sockets.
1096
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1098 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1099 default n
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1101 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1102 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1103
6bf024e6 1104 Say N.
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1107 bool
1108 default n
1109
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1113 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1114 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1116 help
1117 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1118 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1119 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1120 entries.
1121
1122 If unsure, say N here.
1123
8dd2a82c 1124menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1125 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1126 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1127 default !EXPERT
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1129 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1130 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1131 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1132 different namespaces.
1133
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1137 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1138 default y
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1140 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1141 uname() system call
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1144 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1145 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1146 default y
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1148 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1149 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1151config USER_NS
19c92399 1152 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1153 default n
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1155 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1156 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1158 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1160 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1161 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1164
74bd59bb 1165config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1166 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1167 default y
74bd59bb 1168 help
12d2b8f9 1169 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1170 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1172
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1174 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1175 depends on NET
17a6d441 1176 default y
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1178 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1179 of the network stack.
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1184 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1186 select CGROUP_SCHED
1187 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1188 help
1189 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1190 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1191 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1192 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1193 upon task session.
1194
7af37bec 1195config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1196 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1198 default n
1199 help
1200 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1201 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1202 /sys/block/.
1203
1204 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1205 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1206
1207 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1208 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1209 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1210
1211 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1212 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1213 option enabled.
1214
1215 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1216 need to say Y here.
1217
1218config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1219 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1221 depends on SYSFS
1222 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1223 help
1224 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1225
1226 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1227 option.
1228
1229 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1230 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1231 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1232
1233config RELAY
1234 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1235 select IRQ_WORK
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1237 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1238 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1239 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1240 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1241 user space.
1242
1243 If unsure, say N.
1244
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1245config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1246 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1247 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1248 help
1249 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1250 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1251 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1252 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1253 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1254
1255 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1256 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1257 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1258
1259 If unsure say Y.
1260
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1261if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1262
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1263source "usr/Kconfig"
1264
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1265endif
1266
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1267choice
1268 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1269 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1270
1271config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1272 bool "Optimize for performance"
1273 help
1274 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1275 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1276 helpful compile-time warnings.
1277
c45b4f1f 1278config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1279 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1280 help
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1281 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1282 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1283
3a55fb0d 1284 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1285
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1286endchoice
1287
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1288config SYSCTL
1289 bool
1290
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1291config ANON_INODES
1292 bool
1293
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1294config HAVE_UID16
1295 bool
1296
1297config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1298 bool
1299 help
1300 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1301
1302config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1303 bool
1304 help
1305 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1306 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1307 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1308
1309config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1310 bool
1311 help
1312 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1313 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1314 the unaligned access emulation.
1315 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1316
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1317config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1318 bool
1319
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1320# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1321config BPF
1322 bool
1323
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1324menuconfig EXPERT
1325 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1326 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1327 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1328 help
1329 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1330 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1331 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1332 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1333
ae81f9e3 1334config UID16
6a108a14 1335 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1336 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1337 default y
1338 help
1339 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1340
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1342 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1343 default y
1344 help
1345 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1346 capabilities.
1347
1348 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1349 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1350 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1351 setgid, and capset.
1352
1353 If unsure, say Y here.
1354
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1355config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1356 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1357 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1358 ---help---
1359 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1360 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1361 architectures.
1362
1363 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1364
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1365config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1366 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1367 default y
1368 ---help---
1369 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1370 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1371 compatibility with some systems.
1372
1373 If unsure say Y here.
1374
b89a8171 1375config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1376 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1377 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1378 default n
b89a8171 1379 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1380 ---help---
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1381 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1382 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1383 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1384 information.
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1386 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1387 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1388 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1389
c736de60 1390 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1391
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1392config POSIX_TIMERS
1393 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1394 default y
1395 help
1396 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1397 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1398 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1399
1400 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1401 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1402 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1403 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1404 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1405 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1406
1407 If unsure say y.
1408
1da177e4 1409config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1410 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1411 default y
1412 help
1413 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1414 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1415 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1416
1417config KALLSYMS_ALL
1418 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1419 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1420 help
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1421 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1422 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1423 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1424 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1425 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1426
1427 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1428 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1429 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1430 something like this).
1431
1432 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1434config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1435 bool
076501ff 1436 depends on KALLSYMS
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1437 default X86_64 && SMP
1438
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1439config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1440 bool
1441 depends on KALLSYMS
1442 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1443 help
1444 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1445 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1446 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1447 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1448 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1449 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1450 address encountered in the image.
1451
1452 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1453 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1454 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1455 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1456
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1457config PRINTK
1458 default y
6a108a14 1459 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1460 select IRQ_WORK
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1461 help
1462 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1463 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1464 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1465 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1466 strongly discouraged.
1467
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1468config PRINTK_NMI
1469 def_bool y
1470 depends on PRINTK
1471 depends on HAVE_NMI
1472
c8538a7a 1473config BUG
6a108a14 1474 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1475 default y
1476 help
1477 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1478 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1479 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1480 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1481 Just say Y.
1482
708e9a79 1483config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1484 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1485 default y
6a108a14 1486 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1487 help
1488 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1489
8761f1ab 1490
e5e1d3cb 1491config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1492 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1493 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1494 select I8253_LOCK
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1495 default y
1496 help
1497 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1498 support, saving some memory.
1499
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1500config BASE_FULL
1501 default y
6a108a14 1502 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1503 help
1504 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1505 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1506 but may reduce performance.
1507
1508config FUTEX
6a108a14 1509 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1510 default y
23f78d4a 1511 select RT_MUTEXES
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1512 help
1513 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1514 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1515 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1516
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1517config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1518 bool
62b4d204 1519 depends on FUTEX
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1520 help
1521 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1522 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1523 checks.
1524
1da177e4 1525config EPOLL
6a108a14 1526 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1527 default y
448e3cee 1528 select ANON_INODES
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1529 help
1530 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1531 support for epoll family of system calls.
1532
fba2afaa 1533config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1534 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1535 select ANON_INODES
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1536 default y
1537 help
1538 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1539 on a file descriptor.
1540
1541 If unsure, say Y.
1542
b215e283 1543config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1544 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1545 select ANON_INODES
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1546 default y
1547 help
1548 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1549 events on a file descriptor.
1550
1551 If unsure, say Y.
1552
e1ad7468 1553config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1554 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1555 select ANON_INODES
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1556 default y
1557 help
1558 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1559 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1560
1561 If unsure, say Y.
1562
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1563# syscall, maps, verifier
1564config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1565 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1566 select ANON_INODES
1567 select BPF
1568 default n
1569 help
1570 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1571 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1572
1da177e4 1573config SHMEM
6a108a14 1574 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1575 default y
1576 depends on MMU
1577 help
1578 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1579 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1580 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1581 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1582 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1583
ebf3f09c 1584config AIO
6a108a14 1585 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1586 default y
1587 help
1588 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1589 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1590 this option saves about 7k.
1591
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1592config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1593 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1594 default y
1595 help
1596 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1597 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1598 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1599 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1600 space.
1601
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1602config USERFAULTFD
1603 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1604 select ANON_INODES
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1605 depends on MMU
1606 help
1607 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1608 handle page faults in userland.
1609
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1610config PCI_QUIRKS
1611 default y
1612 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1613 depends on PCI
1614 help
1615 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1616 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1617 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1618
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1619config MEMBARRIER
1620 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1621 default y
1622 help
1623 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1624 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1625 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1626 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1627 compiler barrier.
1628
1629 If unsure, say Y.
1630
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1631config EMBEDDED
1632 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1633 option allnoconfig_y
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1634 select EXPERT
1635 help
1636 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1637 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1638 for configuration.
1639
cdd6c482 1640config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1641 bool
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1642 help
1643 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1644
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1645config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1646 bool
1647 help
1648 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1649
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1650config PC104
1651 bool "PC/104 support"
1652 help
1653 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1654 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1655 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1656
57c0c15b 1657menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1658
cdd6c482 1659config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1660 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1661 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1662 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1663 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1664 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1665 select SRCU
0793a61d 1666 help
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1667 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1668 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1669
dd77038d 1670 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1671 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1672
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1673 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1674 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1675 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1676 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1677 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1678 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1679 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1680
57c0c15b 1681 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1682 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1683 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1684 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1685 capabilities on top of those.
1686
1687 Say Y if unsure.
1688
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1689config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1690 default n
1691 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1692 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1693 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1694 help
1695 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1696
1697 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1698 that don't require it.
1699
1700 Say N if unsure.
1701
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1702endmenu
1703
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1704config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1705 default y
6a108a14 1706 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1707 help
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1708 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1709 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1710 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1711 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1712
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1713config SLUB_DEBUG
1714 default y
6a108a14 1715 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1716 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1717 help
1718 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1719 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1720 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1721 no support for cache validation etc.
1722
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1723config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1724 default n
1725 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1726 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1727 help
1728 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1729 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1730 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1731 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1732 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1733 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1734 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1735 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1736
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1737config COMPAT_BRK
1738 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1739 default y
1740 help
1741 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1742 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1743 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1744 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1745 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1746
1747 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1748
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1749choice
1750 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1751 default SLUB
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1752 help
1753 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1754
1755config SLAB
1756 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1757 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1758 help
1759 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1760 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1761 per cpu and per node queues.
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1763config SLUB
81819f0f 1764 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1765 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1766 help
1767 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1768 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1769 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1770 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1771 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1772 a slab allocator.
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1774config SLOB
6a108a14 1775 depends on EXPERT
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1776 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1777 help
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1778 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1779 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1780 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1781
1782endchoice
1783
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1784config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1785 default n
210e7a43 1786 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1787 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1788 help
210e7a43 1789 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1790 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1791 allocator against heap overflows.
1792
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1793config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1794 default y
b39ffbf8 1795 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1796 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1797 help
1798 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1799 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1800 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1801 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1802 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1803
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1804config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1805 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1806 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1807 default n
1808 help
1809 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1810 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1811 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1812 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1813 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1814 then the flag will be ignored.
1815
1816 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1817 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1818
1819 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1820 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1821 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1822 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1823
1824 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1825
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1826config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1827 def_bool n
1828 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1829 select KEYS
1830 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1831 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1832 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1833 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1834 select ASN1
1835 select OID_REGISTRY
1836 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1837 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1838 help
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1839 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1840 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1841 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1842 verification.
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125e5645 1844config PROFILING
b309a294 1845 bool "Profiling support"
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1846 help
1847 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1848 by profilers such as OProfile.
1849
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1851# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1852# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1853#
97e1c18e 1854config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1855 bool
97e1c18e 1856
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1857source "arch/Kconfig"
1858
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1859endmenu # General setup
1860
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1861config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1862 bool
1863 default n
1864
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1865config SLABINFO
1866 bool
1867 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1868 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1869 default y
1870
ae81f9e3 1871config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1872 bool
ae81f9e3 1873
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1874config BASE_SMALL
1875 int
1876 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1877 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1878
66da5733 1879menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1880 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1881 option modules
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1882 help
1883 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1884 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1885 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1886 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1887 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1888 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1889 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1890 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1891 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1892
1893 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1894 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1895 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1896 this).
1897
1898 If unsure, say Y.
1899
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1900if MODULES
1901
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1902config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1903 bool "Forced module loading"
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1904 default n
1905 help
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1906 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1907 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1908 is usually a really bad idea.
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1910config MODULE_UNLOAD
1911 bool "Module unloading"
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1912 help
1913 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1914 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1915 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1916 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1918config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1919 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1920 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1921 help
1922 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1923 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1924 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1925 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1926 If unsure, say N.
1927
1da177e4 1928config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1929 bool "Module versioning support"
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1930 help
1931 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1932 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1933 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1934 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1935 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1936 unsure, say N.
1937
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1939 bool
1940 depends on MODVERSIONS
1941
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1942config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1943 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1944 help
1945 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1946 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1947 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1948 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1949 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1950 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1951 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1952
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1953config MODULE_SIG
1954 bool "Module signature verification"
1955 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1956 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1957 help
1958 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1959 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1960 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1961
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1962 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1963 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1964 library.
1965
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1966 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1967 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1968 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1969 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1970
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1972 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1973 depends on MODULE_SIG
1974 help
1975 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1976 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1978config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1979 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1980 default y
1981 depends on MODULE_SIG
1982 help
1983 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1984 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1985
1986comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1987 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1988
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1990 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1991 depends on MODULE_SIG
1992 help
1993 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1994 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1995 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1996 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1997 the signature on that module.
1998
1999config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2000 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2001 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2002
2003config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2004 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2005 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2006
2007config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2008 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2009 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2010
2011config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2012 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2013 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2014
2015config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2016 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2017 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2018
2019endchoice
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2021config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2022 string
2023 depends on MODULE_SIG
2024 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2025 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2026 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2027 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2028 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2029
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2031 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2032 depends on MODULES
2033 help
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2035 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2036 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2038 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2040 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2041 compressed upon installation.
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2043 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2044 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2046 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2047
2048 If in doubt, say N.
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2050choice
2051 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2052 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2053 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2054 help
2055 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2056 'make modules_install'.
2057
2058 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2059
2060config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2061 bool "GZIP"
2062
2063config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2064 bool "XZ"
2065
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2068config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2069 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2070 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2071 help
2072 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2073 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2074 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2075 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2076
2077 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2078 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2079 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2080 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2081
f1cb637e 2082 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2086config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2087 def_bool y
2088 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2089
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2090config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2091 bool
2092 help
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2093 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2094 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2095 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2096 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2097 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2101config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2102 bool
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2104config PADATA
2105 depends on SMP
2106 bool
2107
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2108config ASN1
2109 tristate
2110 help
2111 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2112 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2113 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2114 functions to call on what tags.
2115
6beb0009 2116source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"