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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 HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
ff0cfc66 30menu "General setup"
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31
32config EXPERIMENTAL
33 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
34 ---help---
35 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
36 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
37 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
38 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
39 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
40 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
41 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
42 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
43 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
44 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
45 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
46 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
47 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
48 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
49 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
50 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
51
52 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
53 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
54 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
55
56 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
57 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
58 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
59 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
60 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
61 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
62
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63config BROKEN
64 bool
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65
66config BROKEN_ON_SMP
67 bool
68 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
69 default y
70
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71config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
72 int
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73 default 32 if !UML
74 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 75 help
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76 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
77 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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1da177e4 79
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80config CROSS_COMPILE
81 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
82 help
83 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
84 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
85 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
86 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
87
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88config LOCALVERSION
89 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
90 help
91 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
92 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
93 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
94 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
95 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
96 be a maximum of 64 characters.
97
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98config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
99 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
100 default y
101 help
102 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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103 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
104 top of tree revision.
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106 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 107 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 108 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 109 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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111 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
112 by running the command:
113
114 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
115
116 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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118config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
119 bool
120
121config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
128 bool
129
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130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
131 bool
132
30d65dbf 133choice
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134 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
135 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 137 help
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138 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
139 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
140 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
141 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
142 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
143
144 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
145 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
146 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
147 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
148
149 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
150 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
151 size matters less.
152
153 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
154
155config KERNEL_GZIP
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156 bool "Gzip"
157 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
158 help
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159 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
160 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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161
162config KERNEL_BZIP2
163 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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165 help
166 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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167 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
168 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
169 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
170 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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172config KERNEL_LZMA
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173 bool "LZMA"
174 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
175 help
176 The most recent compression algorithm.
177 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
178 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
179 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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181config KERNEL_XZ
182 bool "XZ"
183 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
184 help
185 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
186 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
187 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
188 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
189 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
190 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
191
192 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
193 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
194 and LZO. Compression is slow.
195
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196config KERNEL_LZO
197 bool "LZO"
198 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
199 help
200 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
681b3049 201 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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202 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
203
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204endchoice
205
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206config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
207 string "Default hostname"
208 default "(none)"
209 help
210 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
211 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
212 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
213 system more usable with less configuration.
214
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215config SWAP
216 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 217 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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218 default y
219 help
220 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 221 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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222 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
223 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
224
225config SYSVIPC
226 bool "System V IPC"
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227 ---help---
228 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
229 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
230 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
231 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
232 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
233 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
234 you'll need to say Y here.
235
236 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
237 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
238 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
239
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240config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
241 bool
242 depends on SYSVIPC
243 depends on SYSCTL
244 default y
245
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246config POSIX_MQUEUE
247 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
248 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
249 ---help---
250 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
251 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
252 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
253 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 254 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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255
256 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
257 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
258 operations on message queues.
259
260 If unsure, say Y.
261
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262config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
263 bool
264 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
265 depends on SYSCTL
266 default y
267
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268config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
269 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
270 help
271 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
272 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
273 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
274 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
275 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
276 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
277 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
278 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
279 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
280
281config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
282 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
283 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
284 default n
285 help
286 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
287 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
288 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
289 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
290 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 291 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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293config FHANDLE
294 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
295 select EXPORTFS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
298 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
299 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
300 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
301 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
302 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
303 syscalls.
304
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305config TASKSTATS
306 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on NET
308 default n
309 help
310 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
311 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
312 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
313 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
314 space on task exit.
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
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318config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
319 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 320 depends on TASKSTATS
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321 help
322 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
323 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
324 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
325 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
326
327 Say N if unsure.
328
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329config TASK_XACCT
330 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
331 depends on TASKSTATS
332 help
333 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
334 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
335
336 Say N if unsure.
337
338config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
339 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
340 depends on TASK_XACCT
341 help
342 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
343 task has caused.
344
345 Say N if unsure.
346
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347config AUDIT
348 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 349 depends on NET
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350 help
351 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
352 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
353 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
354 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
355
356config AUDITSYSCALL
357 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
022382a5 358 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
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359 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
360 help
361 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
362 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
67640b60 363 such as SELinux.
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365config AUDIT_WATCH
366 def_bool y
367 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
368 select FSNOTIFY
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370config AUDIT_TREE
371 def_bool y
63c882a0 372 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28a3a7eb 373 select FSNOTIFY
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375source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
376
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377menu "RCU Subsystem"
378
379choice
380 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 381 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 382
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383config TREE_RCU
384 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 385 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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386 help
387 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
388 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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389 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
390 smaller systems.
c903ff83 391
f41d911f 392config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 393 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
8008e129 394 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
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395 help
396 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
397 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
398 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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399 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
400 smaller systems.
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402config TINY_RCU
403 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 404 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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405 help
406 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
407 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
408 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
409 memory footprint of RCU.
410
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411config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
412 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 413 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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414 help
415 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
416 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
417 memory footprint of RCU.
418
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420
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421config PREEMPT_RCU
422 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
423 help
424 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
425 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
426
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427config RCU_TRACE
428 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
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429 help
430 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
431 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
432
433 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
434 Say N if you are unsure.
435
436config RCU_FANOUT
437 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
438 range 2 64 if 64BIT
439 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 440 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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441 default 64 if 64BIT
442 default 32 if !64BIT
443 help
444 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
445 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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446 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
447 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
448 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
449 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
450 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
451 code paths on small(er) systems.
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453 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
454 Take the default if unsure.
455
456config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
457 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 458 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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459 default n
460 help
461 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
462 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
463 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
464 strong NUMA behavior.
465
466 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
467
468 Say N if unsure.
469
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470config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
471 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 472 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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473 default n
474 help
475 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
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476 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
477 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
478 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
479 large numbers of CPUs.
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481 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
482 if you have relatively few CPUs.
483
484 Say N if you are unsure.
485
c903ff83 486config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 487 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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489 help
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490 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
491 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
492 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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494config RCU_BOOST
495 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 496 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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497 default n
498 help
499 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
500 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
501 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
502 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
503
504 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
505 Say N here if you are unsure.
506
507config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
508 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
509 range 1 99
510 depends on RCU_BOOST
511 default 1
512 help
513 This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
514 RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound
515 real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
516 the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
517
518 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
519
520config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
521 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
522 range 0 3000
523 depends on RCU_BOOST
524 default 500
525 help
526 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
527 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
528 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
529 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
530
531 Accept the default if unsure.
532
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534
1da177e4 535config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 536 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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537 ---help---
538 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
539 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
540 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
541 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
542 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
543 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
544 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
545 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
546
547config IKCONFIG_PROC
548 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
549 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
550 ---help---
551 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
552 through /proc/config.gz.
553
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554config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
555 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
556 range 12 21
f17a32e9 557 default 17
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558 help
559 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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560 Examples:
561 17 => 128 KB
562 16 => 64 KB
563 15 => 32 KB
564 14 => 16 KB
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565 13 => 8 KB
566 12 => 4 KB
567
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569# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
570#
571config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
572 bool
573
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574menuconfig CGROUPS
575 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 576 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 577 help
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579 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
580 controls or device isolation.
581 See
5cdc38f9 582 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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583 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
584 and resource control)
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585
586 Say N if unsure.
587
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588if CGROUPS
589
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590config CGROUP_DEBUG
591 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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592 default n
593 help
594 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
595 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 596 framework.
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23964d2d 598 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 599
5cdc38f9 600config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 601 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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603 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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605
606config CGROUP_DEVICE
607 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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609 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
610 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
611
612config CPUSETS
613 bool "Cpuset support"
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615 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
616 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
617 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
618 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
619
620 Say N if unsure.
621
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622config PROC_PID_CPUSET
623 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
624 depends on CPUSETS
625 default y
626
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627config CGROUP_CPUACCT
628 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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630 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 631 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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633config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
634 bool "Resource counters"
635 help
636 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 637 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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639config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
640 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 641 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 642 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 643 help
84ad6d70 644 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 645 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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647 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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648 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
649 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
650 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
651 at boot.
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653 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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654 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
655 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
656 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 657 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
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660 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
661
c077719b 662config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
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663 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
664 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
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666 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
667 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
668 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
669 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
670 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
671 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
672 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
673 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
674 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
675 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 676 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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677 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
678 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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679config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
680 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
681 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
682 default y
683 help
684 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
685 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 686 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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687 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
688 parameter should have this option unselected.
689 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
690 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 691 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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692config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
693 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
694 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL
695 default n
696 help
697 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
698 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
699 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
700 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
701 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
702 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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704config CGROUP_PERF
705 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
706 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
707 help
708 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 709 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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710 designated cpu.
711
712 Say N if unsure.
713
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714menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
715 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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716 default n
717 help
718 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
719 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
720 tasks.
721
722if CGROUP_SCHED
723config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
724 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
725 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
726 default CGROUP_SCHED
727
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729 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
730 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
731 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
732 default n
733 help
734 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
735 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
736 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
737 restriction.
738 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
739
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740config RT_GROUP_SCHED
741 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
742 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
743 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
744 default n
745 help
746 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 747 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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748 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
749 realtime bandwidth for them.
750 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
751
752endif #CGROUP_SCHED
753
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755 tristate "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 756 depends on BLOCK
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757 default n
758 ---help---
759 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
760 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
761 policies.
762
763 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
764 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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765 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
766 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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767
768 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 769 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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770 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
771 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 772 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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774 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
775
776config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
777 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
778 depends on BLK_CGROUP
779 default n
780 ---help---
781 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
782 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
783
23964d2d 784endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 786menuconfig NAMESPACES
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788 default !EXPERT
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790 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
791 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
792 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
793 different namespaces.
794
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796
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798 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 799 default y
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800 help
801 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
802 uname() system call
803
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804config IPC_NS
805 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 806 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 807 default y
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808 help
809 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 810 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 811
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813 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8dd2a82c 814 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
17a6d441 815 default y
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816 help
817 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
818 to provide different user info for different servers.
819 If unsure, say N.
820
74bd59bb 821config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 822 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 823 default y
74bd59bb 824 help
12d2b8f9 825 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 826 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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827 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
828
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829config NET_NS
830 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 831 depends on NET
17a6d441 832 default y
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833 help
834 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
835 of the network stack.
836
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838
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839config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
840 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
841 select EVENTFD
842 select CGROUPS
843 select CGROUP_SCHED
844 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
845 help
846 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
847 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
848 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
849 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
850 upon task session.
851
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852config MM_OWNER
853 bool
854
855config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 856 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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857 depends on SYSFS
858 default n
859 help
860 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
861 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
862 /sys/block/.
863
864 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
865 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
866
867 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
868 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
869 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
870
871 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
872 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
873 option enabled.
874
875 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
876 need to say Y here.
877
878config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 879 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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880 default n
881 depends on SYSFS
882 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
883 help
884 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
885
886 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
887 option.
888
889 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
890 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
891 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
892
893config RELAY
894 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
895 help
896 This option enables support for relay interface support in
897 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
898 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
899 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
900 user space.
901
902 If unsure, say N.
903
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905 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
906 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
907 help
908 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
909 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
910 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
911 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
912 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
913
914 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
915 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
916 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
917
918 If unsure say Y.
919
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920if BLK_DEV_INITRD
921
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923
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924endif
925
c45b4f1f 926config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 927 bool "Optimize for size"
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928 help
929 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
930 resulting in a smaller kernel.
931
775a7229 932 If unsure, say Y.
c45b4f1f 933
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935 bool
936
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938 bool
939
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941 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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942 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
943 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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944 help
945 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
946 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
947 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
948 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
949
ae81f9e3 950config UID16
6a108a14 951 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
09337f50 952 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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953 default y
954 help
955 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
956
b89a8171 957config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 958 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 959 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 960 default n
b89a8171 961 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 962 ---help---
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963 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
964 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
965 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
966 information.
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968 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
969 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
970 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 971
c736de60 972 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 973
1da177e4 974config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 975 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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976 default y
977 help
978 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
979 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
980 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
981
982config KALLSYMS_ALL
983 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
985 help
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987 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
988 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
989 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
990 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
991
992 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
993 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
994 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
995 something like this).
996
997 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 999config HOTPLUG
6a108a14 1000 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
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1002 help
1003 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
1004 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
1005 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
1006 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
1007
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1009 default y
6a108a14 1010 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
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1012 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1013 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1014 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1015 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1016 strongly discouraged.
1017
c8538a7a 1018config BUG
6a108a14 1019 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1020 default y
1021 help
1022 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1023 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1024 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1025 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1026 Just say Y.
1027
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1029 default y
6a108a14 1030 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1031 help
1032 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1033
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e5e1d3cb 1035config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1036 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1037 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1038 select I8253_LOCK
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1039 default y
1040 help
1041 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1042 support, saving some memory.
1043
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1044config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1045 bool
1046
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1047config BASE_FULL
1048 default y
6a108a14 1049 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1050 help
1051 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1052 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1053 but may reduce performance.
1054
1055config FUTEX
6a108a14 1056 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1057 default y
23f78d4a 1058 select RT_MUTEXES
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1059 help
1060 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1061 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1062 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1063
1064config EPOLL
6a108a14 1065 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1066 default y
448e3cee 1067 select ANON_INODES
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1068 help
1069 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1070 support for epoll family of system calls.
1071
fba2afaa 1072config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1073 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1074 select ANON_INODES
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1075 default y
1076 help
1077 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1078 on a file descriptor.
1079
1080 If unsure, say Y.
1081
b215e283 1082config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1083 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1084 select ANON_INODES
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1085 default y
1086 help
1087 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1088 events on a file descriptor.
1089
1090 If unsure, say Y.
1091
e1ad7468 1092config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1093 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1094 select ANON_INODES
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1095 default y
1096 help
1097 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1098 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1099
1100 If unsure, say Y.
1101
1da177e4 1102config SHMEM
6a108a14 1103 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1104 default y
1105 depends on MMU
1106 help
1107 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1108 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1109 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1110 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1111 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1112
ebf3f09c 1113config AIO
6a108a14 1114 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1116 help
1117 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1118 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1119 this option saves about 7k.
1120
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1122 bool "Embedded system"
1123 select EXPERT
1124 help
1125 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1126 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1127 for configuration.
1128
cdd6c482 1129config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1130 bool
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1131 help
1132 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1133
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1135 bool
1136 help
1137 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1138
57c0c15b 1139menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1141config PERF_EVENTS
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1142 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1143 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
cdd6c482 1144 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1145 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1146 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1147 help
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1148 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1149 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1150
dd77038d 1151 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1152 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1153
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1155 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1157 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1158 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1159 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1160 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1161
57c0c15b 1162 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1163 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1164 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1165 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1166 capabilities on top of those.
1167
1168 Say Y if unsure.
1169
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1170config PERF_COUNTERS
1171 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1172 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1173 help
1174 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1175 config option - please see that one for details.
1176
1177 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1178 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1179
1180 Say N if unsure.
1181
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1183 default n
1184 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1185 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1186 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1187 help
1188 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1189
1190 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1191 that don't require it.
1192
1193 Say N if unsure.
1194
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1198 default y
6a108a14 1199 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1200 help
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1201 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1202 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1203 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1204 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1205
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1207 default y
6a108a14 1208 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1209 depends on PCI
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1210 help
1211 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1212 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1213 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1214
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1216 default y
6a108a14 1217 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1218 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1220 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1221 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1222 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1223 no support for cache validation etc.
1224
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1226 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1227 default y
1228 help
1229 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1230 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1231 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
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1234
1235 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1236
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1238 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1239 default SLUB
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1241 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1242
1243config SLAB
1244 bool "SLAB"
1245 help
1246 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1247 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1248 per cpu and per node queues.
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1250config SLUB
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1251 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1252 help
1253 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1254 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1255 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1256 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1258 a slab allocator.
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1260config SLOB
6a108a14 1261 depends on EXPERT
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1262 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1263 help
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1264 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1265 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1266 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1269
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1270config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1271 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1272 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1273 default n
1274 help
1275 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1276 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1277 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1278 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1279 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1280 then the flag will be ignored.
1281
1282 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1283 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1284
1285 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1286 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1287 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1288 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1289
1290 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1291
125e5645 1292config PROFILING
b309a294 1293 bool "Profiling support"
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1294 help
1295 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1296 by profilers such as OProfile.
1297
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1299# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1300# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1301#
97e1c18e 1302config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1303 bool
97e1c18e 1304
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1305source "arch/Kconfig"
1306
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1307endmenu # General setup
1308
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1309config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1310 bool
1311 default n
1312
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1313config SLABINFO
1314 bool
1315 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1316 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1317 default y
1318
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1319config RT_MUTEXES
1320 boolean
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1322config BASE_SMALL
1323 int
1324 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1325 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1326
66da5733 1327menuconfig MODULES
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1328 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1329 help
1330 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1331 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1332 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1333 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1334 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1335 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1336 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1337 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1338 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1339
1340 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1341 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1342 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1343 this).
1344
1345 If unsure, say Y.
1346
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1347if MODULES
1348
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1349config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1350 bool "Forced module loading"
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1351 default n
1352 help
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1353 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1354 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1355 is usually a really bad idea.
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1357config MODULE_UNLOAD
1358 bool "Module unloading"
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1359 help
1360 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1361 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1363 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1365config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1366 bool "Forced module unloading"
1367 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1368 help
1369 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1370 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1371 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1372 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1373 If unsure, say N.
1374
1da177e4 1375config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1376 bool "Module versioning support"
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1377 help
1378 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1379 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1380 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1381 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1382 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1383 unsure, say N.
1384
1385config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1386 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1387 help
1388 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1389 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1390 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1391 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1392 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1393 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1394 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1395
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1397
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1398config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1399 bool
1400 help
1401 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1402 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1403 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1404 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1405 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1407config STOP_MACHINE
1408 bool
1409 default y
1410 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1411 help
1412 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1414source "block/Kconfig"
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1416config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1417 bool
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1419config PADATA
1420 depends on SMP
1421 bool
1422
6beb0009 1423source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"