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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
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438 help
439 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
440 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
441 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
442 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
443
444 Say N if unsure.
445
18f705f4 446config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 447 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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448 depends on TASKSTATS
449 help
450 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
451 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
455config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 456 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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457 depends on TASK_XACCT
458 help
459 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
460 task has caused.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
391dc69c 464endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 465
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466menu "RCU Subsystem"
467
468choice
469 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 470 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 471
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472config TREE_RCU
473 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 474 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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475 help
476 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
477 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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478 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
479 smaller systems.
c903ff83 480
28f6569a 481config PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 482 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 483 depends on PREEMPT
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484 help
485 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
486 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
487 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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488 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
489 smaller systems.
f41d911f 490
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491 Select this option if you are unsure.
492
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493config TINY_RCU
494 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 495 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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496 help
497 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
498 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
499 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
500 memory footprint of RCU.
501
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503
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504config RCU_EXPERT
505 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
506 default n
507 help
508 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
509 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
510 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
511 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
512 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
513 obscure RCU options to be set up.
514
515 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
516
517 Say N if you are unsure.
518
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519config SRCU
520 bool
521 help
522 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
523 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
524 sections.
525
8315f422 526config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 527 bool
8315f422 528 default n
83fe27ea 529 select SRCU
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530 help
531 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
532 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
533 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
534
6bfc09e2 535config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 536 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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537 help
538 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
539 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
540 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
541 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
542
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543config CONTEXT_TRACKING
544 bool
545
2b1d5024 546config RCU_USER_QS
7db21edf 547 bool
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548 help
549 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
550 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
551 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
552 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 553 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
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555config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
556 bool "Force context tracking"
557 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 558 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 559 help
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560 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
561 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
562 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
563 dynticks working.
564
565 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
566 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
567 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
568 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
569 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
570 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
571 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
572 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
573 CPUs in the system.
574
99c8b1ea 575 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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576 architecture backend for the context tracking.
577
578 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
579 don't want in production.
580
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583 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
584 range 2 64 if 64BIT
585 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 586 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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588 default 32 if !64BIT
589 help
590 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
591 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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592 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
593 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
594 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
595 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
596 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
597 code paths on small(er) systems.
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599 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
600 Take the default if unsure.
601
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602config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
603 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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604 range 2 64 if 64BIT
605 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 606 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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607 default 16
608 help
609 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
610 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
611 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
612 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
613 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
614 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
615 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
616 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
617 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
618 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
619 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
620 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
621 leaf-level fanouts work well.
622
623 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
624
625 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
626
627 Take the default if unsure.
628
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629config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
630 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 631 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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632 default n
633 help
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634 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
635 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
636 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
637 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
638 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
639 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
640 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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642 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
643 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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645 Say N if you are unsure.
646
c903ff83 647config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 648 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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650 help
f41d911f 651 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 652 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 653 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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655config RCU_BOOST
656 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 657 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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659 help
660 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
661 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
662 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
663 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
664
665 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
666 Say N here if you are unsure.
667
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669 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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671 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
672 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
673 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
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676 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
677 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
678 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
679 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
680 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
681 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
682 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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684
685 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
686 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
687 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 688 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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690 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
691 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
692 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 693 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 694 set to priority 6 or higher.
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696 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
697
698config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
699 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
700 range 0 3000
701 depends on RCU_BOOST
702 default 500
703 help
704 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
705 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
706 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
707 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
708
709 Accept the default if unsure.
710
3fbfbf7a 711config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 712 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 713 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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715 help
716 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
717 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
718 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
719 asymmetric multiprocessors.
720
721 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
722 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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724 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
725 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
726 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
727 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
728 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
729 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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733
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735 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
736 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 737 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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740 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
741 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
742 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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744config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
745 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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747 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
748 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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750 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
751 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
752
753 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
754 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
755 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
758 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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761 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
762 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
763 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
764 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
765 context.
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767 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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769 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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771config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
772 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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774 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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776 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
777 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
778 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
779 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
780 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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782 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
783 or energy-efficiency reasons.
784
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788 bool
789 default n
790 help
791 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
792 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
793 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
794 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
795 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
796 init is exec'ed.
797
798 Accept the default if unsure.
799
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801
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803 bool
804 default n
805
1da177e4 806config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 807 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 808 select BUILD_BIN2C
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810 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
811 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
812 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
813 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
814 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
815 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
816 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
817 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
818
819config IKCONFIG_PROC
820 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
821 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
822 ---help---
823 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
824 through /proc/config.gz.
825
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827 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
828 range 12 21
f17a32e9 829 default 17
361e9dfb 830 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 831 help
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833 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
834 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
835 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
836
f17a32e9 837 Examples:
23b2899f 838 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 839 16 => 64 KB
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841 14 => 16 KB
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843 12 => 4 KB
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846 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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849 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
850 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 851 depends on PRINTK
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853 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
854 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
855 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
856 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
857 e.g. backtraces.
858
859 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
860 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
861 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
862 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
863 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
864 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
865
866 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
867 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
868
869 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
870 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
871 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
872
873 Examples shift values and their meaning:
874 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
875 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
876 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
877 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
878 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
879 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
880
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882# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
883#
884config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
885 bool
886
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888 bool
889
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891# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
892# balancing logic:
893#
894config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
895 bool
896
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898# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
899#
900config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
901 bool
902
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904# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
905#
906config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
907 bool
908
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910 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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912 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
913 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
914 help
915 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
916 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 917 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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919 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
920
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922 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
923 default y
924 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
925 help
926 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
927 machine.
928
23964d2d 929menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 930 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 931 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 932 help
23964d2d 933 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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935 controls or device isolation.
936 See
5cdc38f9 937 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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939 and resource control)
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941 Say N if unsure.
942
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946 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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948 help
949 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
950 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 951 framework.
5cdc38f9 952
23964d2d 953 Say N if unsure.
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5cdc38f9 955config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 956 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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958 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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960
961config CGROUP_DEVICE
962 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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964 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
965 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
966
967config CPUSETS
968 bool "Cpuset support"
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970 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
971 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
972 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
973 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
974
975 Say N if unsure.
976
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978 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
979 depends on CPUSETS
980 default y
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983 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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985 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 986 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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989 bool
990
c255a458 991config MEMCG
00f0b825 992 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 993 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 994 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 995 help
84ad6d70 996 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 997 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 998
c255a458 999config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 1000 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 1001 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1003 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1004 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1005 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1006 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1007 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1008 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1009 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1010 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1011 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1012 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1013 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1015 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1016config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1017 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1018 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1020 help
1021 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1022 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1023 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1024 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1026 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1027 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1028 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1029config MEMCG_KMEM
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1030 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1031 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1032 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1034 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1035 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1036 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1037 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1038 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1039 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1042 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1046 help
1047 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1048 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1049 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1050 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1051 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1052 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1053 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1054 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1055 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1058 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1059 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1060 help
1061 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1062 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1064
1065 Say N if unsure.
1066
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1068 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1070 help
1071 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1072 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1073 tasks.
1074
1075if CGROUP_SCHED
1076config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1077 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1078 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1079 default CGROUP_SCHED
1080
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1082 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1084 default n
1085 help
1086 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1087 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1088 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1089 restriction.
1090 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1091
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1093 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1095 default n
1096 help
1097 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1098 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1100 realtime bandwidth for them.
1101 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1102
1103endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1104
afc24d49 1105config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1106 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1107 depends on BLOCK
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1109 ---help---
1110 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1111 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1112 policies.
1113
1114 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1115 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1117 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1119 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1122 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1123 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1125 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1126
1127config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1128 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1129 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1130 default n
1131 ---help---
1132 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1133 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1134
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1138 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1139 default n
1140 help
1141 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1142 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1143 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1144 entries.
1145
1146 If unsure, say N here.
1147
8dd2a82c 1148menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1149 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1150 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1151 default !EXPERT
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1153 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1154 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1155 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1156 different namespaces.
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1161 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1162 default y
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1164 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1165 uname() system call
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1168 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1169 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1170 default y
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1172 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1173 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1174
aee16ce7 1175config USER_NS
19c92399 1176 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1177 default n
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1179 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1180 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1182 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1183 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1184 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1185 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1186 use.
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1189
74bd59bb 1190config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1191 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1192 default y
74bd59bb 1193 help
12d2b8f9 1194 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1195 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1199 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1200 depends on NET
17a6d441 1201 default y
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1203 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1204 of the network stack.
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1209 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1211 select CGROUP_SCHED
1212 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1213 help
1214 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1215 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1216 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1217 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1218 upon task session.
1219
7af37bec 1220config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1221 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1222 depends on SYSFS
1223 default n
1224 help
1225 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1226 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1227 /sys/block/.
1228
1229 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1230 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1231
1232 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1233 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1234 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1235
1236 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1237 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1238 option enabled.
1239
1240 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1241 need to say Y here.
1242
1243config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1244 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1246 depends on SYSFS
1247 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1248 help
1249 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1250
1251 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1252 option.
1253
1254 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1255 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1256 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1257
1258config RELAY
1259 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1260 help
1261 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1262 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1263 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1264 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1265 user space.
1266
1267 If unsure, say N.
1268
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1269config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1270 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1271 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1272 help
1273 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1274 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1275 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1276 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1277 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1278
1279 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1280 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1281 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1282
1283 If unsure say Y.
1284
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1285if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1286
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1288
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1289endif
1290
c45b4f1f 1291config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1292 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1293 help
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1294 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1295 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1296
3a55fb0d 1297 If unsure, say N.
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1299config SYSCTL
1300 bool
1301
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1302config ANON_INODES
1303 bool
1304
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1306 bool
1307
1308config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1309 bool
1310 help
1311 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1312
1313config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1314 bool
1315 help
1316 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1317 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1318 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1319
1320config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1321 bool
1322 help
1323 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1324 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1325 the unaligned access emulation.
1326 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1327
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1328config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1329 bool
1330
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1332config BPF
1333 bool
1334
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1335menuconfig EXPERT
1336 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1337 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1338 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1339 help
1340 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1341 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1342 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1343 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1344
ae81f9e3 1345config UID16
6a108a14 1346 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1347 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1348 default y
1349 help
1350 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1351
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1353 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1354 default y
1355 help
1356 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1357 capabilities.
1358
1359 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1360 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1361 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1362 setgid, and capset.
1363
1364 If unsure, say Y here.
1365
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1366config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1367 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1368 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1369 ---help---
1370 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1371 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1372 architectures.
1373
1374 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1375
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1376config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1377 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1378 default y
1379 ---help---
1380 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1381 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1382 compatibility with some systems.
1383
1384 If unsure say Y here.
1385
b89a8171 1386config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1387 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1388 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1389 default n
b89a8171 1390 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1391 ---help---
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1392 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1393 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1394 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1395 information.
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1397 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1398 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1399 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1400
c736de60 1401 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1402
1da177e4 1403config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1404 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1405 default y
1406 help
1407 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1408 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1409 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1410
1411config KALLSYMS_ALL
1412 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1413 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1414 help
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1416 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1417 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1418 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1419 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1420
1421 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1422 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1423 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1424 something like this).
1425
1426 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1428config PRINTK
1429 default y
6a108a14 1430 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1431 select IRQ_WORK
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1432 help
1433 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1434 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1435 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1436 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1437 strongly discouraged.
1438
c8538a7a 1439config BUG
6a108a14 1440 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1441 default y
1442 help
1443 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1444 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1445 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1446 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1447 Just say Y.
1448
708e9a79 1449config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1450 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1451 default y
6a108a14 1452 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1453 help
1454 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1455
8761f1ab 1456
e5e1d3cb 1457config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1458 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1459 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1460 select I8253_LOCK
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1461 default y
1462 help
1463 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1464 support, saving some memory.
1465
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1466config BASE_FULL
1467 default y
6a108a14 1468 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1469 help
1470 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1471 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1472 but may reduce performance.
1473
1474config FUTEX
6a108a14 1475 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1476 default y
23f78d4a 1477 select RT_MUTEXES
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1478 help
1479 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1480 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1481 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1482
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1483config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1484 bool
62b4d204 1485 depends on FUTEX
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1486 help
1487 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1488 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1489 checks.
1490
1da177e4 1491config EPOLL
6a108a14 1492 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1493 default y
448e3cee 1494 select ANON_INODES
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1495 help
1496 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1497 support for epoll family of system calls.
1498
fba2afaa 1499config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1500 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1501 select ANON_INODES
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1502 default y
1503 help
1504 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1505 on a file descriptor.
1506
1507 If unsure, say Y.
1508
b215e283 1509config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1510 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1511 select ANON_INODES
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1512 default y
1513 help
1514 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1515 events on a file descriptor.
1516
1517 If unsure, say Y.
1518
e1ad7468 1519config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1520 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1521 select ANON_INODES
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1522 default y
1523 help
1524 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1525 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1526
1527 If unsure, say Y.
1528
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1530config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1531 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1532 select ANON_INODES
1533 select BPF
1534 default n
1535 help
1536 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1537 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1538
1da177e4 1539config SHMEM
6a108a14 1540 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1541 default y
1542 depends on MMU
1543 help
1544 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1545 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1546 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1547 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1548 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1549
ebf3f09c 1550config AIO
6a108a14 1551 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1552 default y
1553 help
1554 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1555 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1556 this option saves about 7k.
1557
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1558config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1559 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1560 default y
1561 help
1562 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1563 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1564 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1565 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1566 space.
1567
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1568config PCI_QUIRKS
1569 default y
1570 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1571 depends on PCI
1572 help
1573 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1574 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1575 unaffected by PCI quirks.
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1577config EMBEDDED
1578 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1579 option allnoconfig_y
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1580 select EXPERT
1581 help
1582 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1583 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1584 for configuration.
1585
cdd6c482 1586config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1587 bool
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1588 help
1589 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1590
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1591config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1592 bool
1593 help
1594 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1595
57c0c15b 1596menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1597
cdd6c482 1598config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1599 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1600 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1601 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1602 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1603 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1604 select SRCU
0793a61d 1605 help
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1606 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1607 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1608
dd77038d 1609 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1610 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1611
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1612 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1613 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1614 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1615 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1616 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1617 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1618 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1619
57c0c15b 1620 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1621 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1622 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1623 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1624 capabilities on top of those.
1625
1626 Say Y if unsure.
1627
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1628config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1629 default n
1630 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1631 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1632 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1633 help
1634 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1635
1636 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1637 that don't require it.
1638
1639 Say N if unsure.
1640
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1642
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1643config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1644 default y
6a108a14 1645 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1646 help
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1647 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1648 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1649 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1650 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1651
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1652config SLUB_DEBUG
1653 default y
6a108a14 1654 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1655 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1656 help
1657 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1658 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1659 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1660 no support for cache validation etc.
1661
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1662config COMPAT_BRK
1663 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1664 default y
1665 help
1666 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1667 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1668 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1669 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1670 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1671
1672 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1673
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1674choice
1675 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1676 default SLUB
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1677 help
1678 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1679
1680config SLAB
1681 bool "SLAB"
1682 help
1683 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1684 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1685 per cpu and per node queues.
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1687config SLUB
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1688 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1689 help
1690 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1691 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1692 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1693 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1694 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1695 a slab allocator.
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1697config SLOB
6a108a14 1698 depends on EXPERT
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1699 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1700 help
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1701 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1702 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1703 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1706
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1707config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1708 default y
b39ffbf8 1709 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1710 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1711 help
1712 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1713 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1714 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1715 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1716 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1717
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1718config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1719 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1720 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1721 default n
1722 help
1723 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1724 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1725 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1726 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1727 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1728 then the flag will be ignored.
1729
1730 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1731 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1732
1733 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1734 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1735 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1736 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1737
1738 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1739
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1740config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1741 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1742 depends on KEYS
1743 help
1744 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1745 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1746 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1747 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1748 keys already in the keyring.
1749
1750 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1751
125e5645 1752config PROFILING
b309a294 1753 bool "Profiling support"
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1754 help
1755 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1756 by profilers such as OProfile.
1757
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1759# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1760# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1761#
97e1c18e 1762config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1763 bool
97e1c18e 1764
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1766
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1768
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1769config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1770 bool
1771 default n
1772
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1773config SLABINFO
1774 bool
1775 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1776 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1777 default y
1778
ae81f9e3 1779config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1780 bool
ae81f9e3 1781
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1782config BASE_SMALL
1783 int
1784 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1785 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1786
66da5733 1787menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1788 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1789 option modules
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1790 help
1791 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1792 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1793 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1794 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1795 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1796 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1797 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1798 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1799 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1800
1801 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1802 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1803 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1804 this).
1805
1806 If unsure, say Y.
1807
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1808if MODULES
1809
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1810config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1811 bool "Forced module loading"
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1812 default n
1813 help
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1814 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1815 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1816 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1817
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1818config MODULE_UNLOAD
1819 bool "Module unloading"
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1820 help
1821 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1822 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1824 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1825
1826config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1827 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1828 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1829 help
1830 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1831 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1832 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1833 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1834 If unsure, say N.
1835
1da177e4 1836config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1837 bool "Module versioning support"
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1838 help
1839 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1840 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1841 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1842 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1843 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1844 unsure, say N.
1845
1846config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1847 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1849 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1850 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1851 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1852 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1853 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1854 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1855 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1856
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1857config MODULE_SIG
1858 bool "Module signature verification"
1859 depends on MODULES
b56e5a17 1860 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
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1861 select KEYS
1862 select CRYPTO
1863 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1864 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1865 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1866 select ASN1
1867 select OID_REGISTRY
1868 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1869 help
1870 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1871 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1872 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1873
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1874 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1875 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1876 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1877 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1878
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1879config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1880 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1881 depends on MODULE_SIG
1882 help
1883 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1884 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1886config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1887 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1888 default y
1889 depends on MODULE_SIG
1890 help
1891 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1892 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1893
1894comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1895 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1896
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1898 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1899 depends on MODULE_SIG
1900 help
1901 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1902 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1903 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1904 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1905 the signature on that module.
1906
1907config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1908 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1909 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1910
1911config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1912 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1913 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1914
1915config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1916 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1917 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1918
1919config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1920 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1921 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1922
1923config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1924 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1925 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1926
1927endchoice
1928
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1929config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1930 string
1931 depends on MODULE_SIG
1932 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1933 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1934 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1935 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1936 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1937
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1938config MODULE_COMPRESS
1939 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1940 depends on MODULES
1941 help
1942 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1943 modules_install' is run.
1944
1945 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1946 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1947
1948 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1949 and xz compressed modules.
1950
1951 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1952 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1953 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1954
1955 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1956 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1957 initrd or initramfs instead.
1958
1959 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1960 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1961 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1962
1963choice
1964 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1965 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1966 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1967 help
1968 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1969 'make modules_install'.
1970
1971 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1972
1973config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1974 bool "GZIP"
1975
1976config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1977 bool "XZ"
1978
1979endchoice
1980
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1982
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1983config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1984 bool
1985 help
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1986 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1987 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1988 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1989 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1990 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1992config STOP_MACHINE
1993 bool
1994 default y
1995 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1996 help
1997 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1999source "block/Kconfig"
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2001config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2002 bool
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2004config PADATA
2005 depends on SMP
2006 bool
2007
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2008# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2009# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2010# mappings
2011config BROKEN_RODATA
2012 bool
2013
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2014config ASN1
2015 tristate
2016 help
2017 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2018 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2019 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2020 functions to call on what tags.
2021
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