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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.
1da177e4 46
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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339
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"
397 help
398 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
399 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
400 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
401 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
402 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
403 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
404 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
405 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
406 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
407
408config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
409 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
410 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
411 default n
412 help
413 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
414 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
415 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
416 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
417 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 418 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 420config TASKSTATS
19c92399 421 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
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422 depends on NET
423 default n
424 help
425 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
426 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
427 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
428 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
429 space on task exit.
430
431 Say N if unsure.
432
ca74e92b 433config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 434 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 435 depends on TASKSTATS
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436 help
437 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
438 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
439 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
440 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
441
442 Say N if unsure.
443
18f705f4 444config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 445 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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446 depends on TASKSTATS
447 help
448 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
449 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
450
451 Say N if unsure.
452
453config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 454 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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455 depends on TASK_XACCT
456 help
457 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
458 task has caused.
459
460 Say N if unsure.
461
391dc69c 462endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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464menu "RCU Subsystem"
465
466choice
467 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 468 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 469
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470config TREE_RCU
471 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 472 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
016a8d5b 473 select IRQ_WORK
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474 help
475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
476 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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477 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
478 smaller systems.
c903ff83 479
28f6569a 480config PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 481 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 482 depends on PREEMPT
53614714 483 select IRQ_WORK
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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 SRCU
505 bool
506 help
507 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
508 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
509 sections.
510
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511config TASKS_RCU
512 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
513 default n
83fe27ea 514 select SRCU
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515 help
516 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
517 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
518 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
519
520 If unsure, say N.
521
6bfc09e2 522config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 523 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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524 help
525 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
526 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
527 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
528 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
529
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530config CONTEXT_TRACKING
531 bool
532
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533config RCU_USER_QS
534 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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535 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
536 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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537 help
538 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
539 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
540 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
541 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 542 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 543
d677124b 544 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 545 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 546 adds unnecessary overhead.
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548 If unsure say N
549
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550config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
551 bool "Force context tracking"
552 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 553 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 554 help
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555 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
556 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
557 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
558 dynticks working.
559
560 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
561 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
562 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
563 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
564 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
565 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
566 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
567 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
568 CPUs in the system.
569
99c8b1ea 570 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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571 architecture backend for the context tracking.
572
573 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
574 don't want in production.
575
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578 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
579 range 2 64 if 64BIT
580 range 2 32 if !64BIT
28f6569a 581 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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583 default 32 if !64BIT
584 help
585 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
586 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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587 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
588 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
589 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
590 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
591 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
592 code paths on small(er) systems.
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594 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
595 Take the default if unsure.
596
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597config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
598 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
599 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
600 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
28f6569a 601 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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602 default 16
603 help
604 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
605 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
606 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
607 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
608 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
609 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
610 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
611 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
612 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
613 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
614 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
615 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
616 leaf-level fanouts work well.
617
618 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
619
620 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
621
622 Take the default if unsure.
623
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624config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
625 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
28f6569a 626 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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627 default n
628 help
629 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
630 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
631 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
632 strong NUMA behavior.
633
634 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
635
636 Say N if unsure.
637
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638config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
639 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
3451d024 640 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
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641 default n
642 help
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643 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
644 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
645 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
646 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
647 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
648 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
649 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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652 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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654 Say N if you are unsure.
655
c903ff83 656config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 657 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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659 help
f41d911f 660 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 661 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 662 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 663
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665 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 666 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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668 help
669 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
670 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
671 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
672 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
673
674 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
675 Say N here if you are unsure.
676
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678 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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680 depends on RCU_BOOST
681 default 1
682 help
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684 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
685 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
686 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
687 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
688 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
689 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
690 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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692
693 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
694 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
695 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 696 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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698 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
699 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
700 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 701 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 702 set to priority 6 or higher.
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704 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
705
706config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
707 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
708 range 0 3000
709 depends on RCU_BOOST
710 default 500
711 help
712 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
713 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
714 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
715 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
716
717 Accept the default if unsure.
718
3fbfbf7a 719config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 720 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 721 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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723 help
724 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
725 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
726 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
727 asymmetric multiprocessors.
728
729 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
730 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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732 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
733 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
734 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
735 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
736 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
737 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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741
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743 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
744 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 745 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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747 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
748 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
749 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
750 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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752config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
753 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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755 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
756 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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758 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
759 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
760
761 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
762 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
763 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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765config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
766 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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769 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
770 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
771 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
772 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
773 context.
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775 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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777 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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779config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
780 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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782 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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784 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
785 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
786 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
787 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
788 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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790 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
791 or energy-efficiency reasons.
792
793endchoice
794
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796
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797config BUILD_BIN2C
798 bool
799 default n
800
1da177e4 801config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 802 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 803 select BUILD_BIN2C
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804 ---help---
805 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
806 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
807 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
808 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
809 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
810 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
811 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
812 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
813
814config IKCONFIG_PROC
815 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
816 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
817 ---help---
818 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
819 through /proc/config.gz.
820
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822 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
823 range 12 21
f17a32e9 824 default 17
361e9dfb 825 depends on PRINTK
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828 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
829 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
830 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
831
f17a32e9 832 Examples:
23b2899f 833 17 => 128 KB
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836 14 => 16 KB
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838 12 => 4 KB
839
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841 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 842 depends on SMP
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843 range 0 21
844 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
845 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 846 depends on PRINTK
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848 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
849 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
850 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
851 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
852 e.g. backtraces.
853
854 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
855 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
856 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
857 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
858 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
859 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
860
861 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
862 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
863
864 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
865 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
866 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
867
868 Examples shift values and their meaning:
869 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
870 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
871 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
872 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
873 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
874 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
875
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877# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
878#
879config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
880 bool
881
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883 bool
884
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886# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
887# balancing logic:
888#
889config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
890 bool
891
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893# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
894#
895config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
896 bool
897
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899# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
900#
901config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
902 bool
903
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905 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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907 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
908 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
909 help
910 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
911 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 912 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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914 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
915
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917 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
918 default y
919 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
920 help
921 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
922 machine.
923
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925 boolean "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 926 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 927 help
23964d2d 928 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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930 controls or device isolation.
931 See
5cdc38f9 932 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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933 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
934 and resource control)
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936 Say N if unsure.
937
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938if CGROUPS
939
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941 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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943 help
944 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
945 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 946 framework.
5cdc38f9 947
23964d2d 948 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 949
5cdc38f9 950config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 951 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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953 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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955
956config CGROUP_DEVICE
957 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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959 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
960 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
961
962config CPUSETS
963 bool "Cpuset support"
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965 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
966 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
967 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
968 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
969
970 Say N if unsure.
971
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973 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
974 depends on CPUSETS
975 default y
976
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978 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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980 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 981 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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984 bool
985
c255a458 986config MEMCG
00f0b825 987 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 988 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 989 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 990 help
84ad6d70 991 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 992 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 993
c255a458 994config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 995 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 996 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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998 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
999 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1000 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1001 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1002 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1003 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1004 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1005 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1006 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1007 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1008 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1010 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1011config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1012 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1013 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1015 help
1016 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1017 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1018 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1019 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1020 parameter should have this option unselected.
1021 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1022 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1023 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1024config MEMCG_KMEM
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1025 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1026 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1027 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1029 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1030 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1031 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1032 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1033 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1034 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1037 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
1038 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
1039 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
1040 purposes.
1041
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1043 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1045 select PAGE_COUNTER
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1047 help
1048 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1049 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1050 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1051 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1052 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1053 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1054 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1055 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1056 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1057
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1059 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1060 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1061 help
1062 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1063 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1065
1066 Say N if unsure.
1067
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1069 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1070 default n
1071 help
1072 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1073 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1074 tasks.
1075
1076if CGROUP_SCHED
1077config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1078 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1079 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1080 default CGROUP_SCHED
1081
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1083 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1084 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1085 default n
1086 help
1087 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1088 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1089 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1090 restriction.
1091 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1092
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1094 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1096 default n
1097 help
1098 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1099 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1100 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1101 realtime bandwidth for them.
1102 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1103
1104endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1105
afc24d49 1106config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1107 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1108 depends on BLOCK
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1110 ---help---
1111 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1112 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1113 policies.
1114
1115 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1116 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1118 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1120 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 1121 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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1123 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1124 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1126 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1127
1128config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1129 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1130 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1131 default n
1132 ---help---
1133 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1134 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1135
23964d2d 1136endif # CGROUPS
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1139 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1140 default n
1141 help
1142 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1143 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1144 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1145 entries.
1146
1147 If unsure, say N here.
1148
8dd2a82c 1149menuconfig NAMESPACES
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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
1166
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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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1197
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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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1286
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1288
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1289endif
1290
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1291config INIT_FALLBACK
1292 bool "Fall back to defaults if init= parameter is bad"
1293 default y
1294 help
1295 If enabled, the kernel will try the default init binaries if an
1296 explicit request from the init= parameter fails.
1297
1298 This can have unexpected effects. For example, booting
1299 with init=/sbin/kiosk_app will run /sbin/init or even /bin/sh
1300 if /sbin/kiosk_app cannot be executed.
1301
1302 The default value of Y is consistent with historical behavior.
1303 Selecting N is likely to be more appropriate for most uses,
1304 especially on kiosks and on kernels that are intended to be
1305 run under the control of a script.
1306
c45b4f1f 1307config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1308 bool "Optimize for size"
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1309 help
1310 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1311 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1312
3a55fb0d 1313 If unsure, say N.
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1315config SYSCTL
1316 bool
1317
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1318config ANON_INODES
1319 bool
1320
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1321config HAVE_UID16
1322 bool
1323
1324config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1325 bool
1326 help
1327 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1328
1329config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1330 bool
1331 help
1332 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1333 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1334 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1335
1336config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1337 bool
1338 help
1339 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1340 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1341 the unaligned access emulation.
1342 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1343
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1344config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1345 bool
1346
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1347# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1348config BPF
1349 bool
1350
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1351menuconfig EXPERT
1352 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1353 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1354 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1355 help
1356 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1357 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1358 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1359 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1360
ae81f9e3 1361config UID16
6a108a14 1362 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1363 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1364 default y
1365 help
1366 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1367
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1368config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1369 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1370 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1371 ---help---
1372 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1373 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1374 architectures.
1375
1376 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1377
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1378config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1379 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1380 default y
1381 ---help---
1382 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1383 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1384 compatibility with some systems.
1385
1386 If unsure say Y here.
1387
b89a8171 1388config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1389 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1390 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1391 default n
b89a8171 1392 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1393 ---help---
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1394 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1395 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1396 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1397 information.
b89a8171 1398
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1399 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1400 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1401 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1402
c736de60 1403 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1404
1da177e4 1405config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1406 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1407 default y
1408 help
1409 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1410 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1411 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1412
1413config KALLSYMS_ALL
1414 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1416 help
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1418 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1419 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1420 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1421 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1422
1423 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1424 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1425 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1426 something like this).
1427
1428 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1430config PRINTK
1431 default y
6a108a14 1432 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1433 select IRQ_WORK
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1434 help
1435 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1436 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1437 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1438 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1439 strongly discouraged.
1440
c8538a7a 1441config BUG
6a108a14 1442 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1443 default y
1444 help
1445 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1446 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1447 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1448 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1449 Just say Y.
1450
708e9a79 1451config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1452 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1453 default y
6a108a14 1454 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1455 help
1456 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1457
8761f1ab 1458
e5e1d3cb 1459config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1460 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1461 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1462 select I8253_LOCK
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1463 default y
1464 help
1465 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1466 support, saving some memory.
1467
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1468config BASE_FULL
1469 default y
6a108a14 1470 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1471 help
1472 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1473 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1474 but may reduce performance.
1475
1476config FUTEX
6a108a14 1477 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1478 default y
23f78d4a 1479 select RT_MUTEXES
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1480 help
1481 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1482 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1483 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1484
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1485config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1486 bool
62b4d204 1487 depends on FUTEX
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1488 help
1489 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1490 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1491 checks.
1492
1da177e4 1493config EPOLL
6a108a14 1494 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1495 default y
448e3cee 1496 select ANON_INODES
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1497 help
1498 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1499 support for epoll family of system calls.
1500
fba2afaa 1501config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1502 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1503 select ANON_INODES
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1504 default y
1505 help
1506 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1507 on a file descriptor.
1508
1509 If unsure, say Y.
1510
b215e283 1511config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1512 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1513 select ANON_INODES
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1514 default y
1515 help
1516 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1517 events on a file descriptor.
1518
1519 If unsure, say Y.
1520
e1ad7468 1521config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1522 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1523 select ANON_INODES
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1524 default y
1525 help
1526 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1527 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1528
1529 If unsure, say Y.
1530
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1532config BPF_SYSCALL
1533 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT
1534 select ANON_INODES
1535 select BPF
1536 default n
1537 help
1538 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1539 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1540
1da177e4 1541config SHMEM
6a108a14 1542 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1543 default y
1544 depends on MMU
1545 help
1546 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1547 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1548 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1549 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1550 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1551
ebf3f09c 1552config AIO
6a108a14 1553 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1554 default y
1555 help
1556 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1557 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1558 this option saves about 7k.
1559
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1560config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1561 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1562 default y
1563 help
1564 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1565 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1566 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1567 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1568 space.
1569
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1570config PCI_QUIRKS
1571 default y
1572 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1573 depends on PCI
1574 help
1575 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1576 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1577 unaffected by PCI quirks.
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1579config EMBEDDED
1580 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1581 option allnoconfig_y
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1582 select EXPERT
1583 help
1584 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1585 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1586 for configuration.
1587
cdd6c482 1588config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1589 bool
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1590 help
1591 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1592
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1593config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1594 bool
1595 help
1596 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1597
57c0c15b 1598menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1599
cdd6c482 1600config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1601 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1602 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1603 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1604 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1605 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1606 select SRCU
0793a61d 1607 help
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1608 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1609 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1610
dd77038d 1611 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1612 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1613
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1614 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1615 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1616 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1617 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1618 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1619 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1620 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1621
57c0c15b 1622 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1623 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1624 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1625 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1626 capabilities on top of those.
1627
1628 Say Y if unsure.
1629
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1630config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1631 default n
1632 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1633 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1634 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1635 help
1636 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1637
1638 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1639 that don't require it.
1640
1641 Say N if unsure.
1642
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1644
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1645config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1646 default y
6a108a14 1647 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1648 help
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1649 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1650 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1651 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1652 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1653
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1654config SLUB_DEBUG
1655 default y
6a108a14 1656 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1657 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1658 help
1659 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1660 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1661 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1662 no support for cache validation etc.
1663
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1664config COMPAT_BRK
1665 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1666 default y
1667 help
1668 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1669 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1670 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1671 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1672 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1673
1674 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1675
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1676choice
1677 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1678 default SLUB
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1679 help
1680 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1681
1682config SLAB
1683 bool "SLAB"
1684 help
1685 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1686 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1687 per cpu and per node queues.
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1689config SLUB
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1690 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1691 help
1692 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1693 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1694 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1695 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1696 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1697 a slab allocator.
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1699config SLOB
6a108a14 1700 depends on EXPERT
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1701 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1702 help
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1703 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1704 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1705 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1707endchoice
1708
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1709config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1710 default y
b39ffbf8 1711 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1712 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1713 help
1714 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1715 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1716 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1717 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1718 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1719
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1720config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1721 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1722 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1723 default n
1724 help
1725 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1726 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1727 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1728 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1729 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1730 then the flag will be ignored.
1731
1732 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1733 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1734
1735 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1736 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1737 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1738 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1739
1740 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1741
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1742config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1743 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1744 depends on KEYS
1745 help
1746 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1747 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1748 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1749 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1750 keys already in the keyring.
1751
1752 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1753
125e5645 1754config PROFILING
b309a294 1755 bool "Profiling support"
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1756 help
1757 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1758 by profilers such as OProfile.
1759
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1761# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1762# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1763#
97e1c18e 1764config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1765 bool
97e1c18e 1766
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1768
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1770
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1771config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1772 bool
1773 default n
1774
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1775config SLABINFO
1776 bool
1777 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1778 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1779 default y
1780
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1781config RT_MUTEXES
1782 boolean
ae81f9e3 1783
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1784config BASE_SMALL
1785 int
1786 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1787 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1788
66da5733 1789menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1790 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1791 option modules
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1792 help
1793 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1794 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1795 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1796 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1797 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1798 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1799 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1800 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1801 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1802
1803 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1804 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1805 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1806 this).
1807
1808 If unsure, say Y.
1809
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1810if MODULES
1811
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1812config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1813 bool "Forced module loading"
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1814 default n
1815 help
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1816 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1817 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1818 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1819
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1820config MODULE_UNLOAD
1821 bool "Module unloading"
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1822 help
1823 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1824 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1826 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1827
1828config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1829 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1830 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1831 help
1832 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1833 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1834 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1835 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1836 If unsure, say N.
1837
1da177e4 1838config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1839 bool "Module versioning support"
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1840 help
1841 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1842 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1843 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1844 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1845 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1846 unsure, say N.
1847
1848config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1849 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1850 help
1851 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1852 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1853 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1854 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1855 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1856 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1857 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1858
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1859config MODULE_SIG
1860 bool "Module signature verification"
1861 depends on MODULES
b56e5a17 1862 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
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1863 select KEYS
1864 select CRYPTO
1865 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1866 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1867 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1868 select ASN1
1869 select OID_REGISTRY
1870 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1871 help
1872 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1873 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1874 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1875
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1876 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1877 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1878 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1879 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1880
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1881config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1882 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1883 depends on MODULE_SIG
1884 help
1885 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1886 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1888config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1889 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1890 default y
1891 depends on MODULE_SIG
1892 help
1893 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1894 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1895
1896comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1897 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1898
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1899choice
1900 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1901 depends on MODULE_SIG
1902 help
1903 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1904 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1905 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1906 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1907 the signature on that module.
1908
1909config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1910 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1911 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1912
1913config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1914 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1915 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1916
1917config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1918 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1919 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1920
1921config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1922 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1923 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1924
1925config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1926 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1927 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1928
1929endchoice
1930
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1931config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1932 string
1933 depends on MODULE_SIG
1934 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1935 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1936 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1937 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1938 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1939
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1940config MODULE_COMPRESS
1941 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1942 depends on MODULES
1943 help
1944 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1945 modules_install' is run.
1946
1947 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1948 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1949
1950 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1951 and xz compressed modules.
1952
1953 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1954 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1955 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1956
1957 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1958 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1959 initrd or initramfs instead.
1960
1961 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1962 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1963 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1964
1965choice
1966 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1967 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1968 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1969 help
1970 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1971 'make modules_install'.
1972
1973 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1974
1975config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1976 bool "GZIP"
1977
1978config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1979 bool "XZ"
1980
1981endchoice
1982
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1983endif # MODULES
1984
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1985config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1986 bool
1987 help
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1988 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1989 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1990 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1991 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1992 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1994config STOP_MACHINE
1995 bool
1996 default y
1997 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1998 help
1999 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 2000
3a65dfe8 2001source "block/Kconfig"
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2003config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2004 bool
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2006config PADATA
2007 depends on SMP
2008 bool
2009
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2010# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2011# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2012# mappings
2013config BROKEN_RODATA
2014 bool
2015
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2016config ASN1
2017 tristate
2018 help
2019 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2020 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2021 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2022 functions to call on what tags.
2023
6beb0009 2024source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"