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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
ff0cfc66 29menu "General setup"
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31config BROKEN
32 bool
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33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
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39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
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41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 43 help
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44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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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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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
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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 TASKS_RCU
505 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
506 default n
507 help
508 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
509 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
510 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
511
512 If unsure, say N.
513
6bfc09e2 514config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 515 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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516 help
517 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
518 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
519 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
520 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
521
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522config CONTEXT_TRACKING
523 bool
524
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525config RCU_USER_QS
526 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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527 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
528 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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529 help
530 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
531 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
532 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
533 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 534 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 535
d677124b 536 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 537 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 538 adds unnecessary overhead.
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540 If unsure say N
541
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542config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
543 bool "Force context tracking"
544 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 545 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 546 help
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547 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
548 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
549 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
550 dynticks working.
551
552 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
553 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
554 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
555 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
556 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
557 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
558 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
559 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
560 CPUs in the system.
561
99c8b1ea 562 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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563 architecture backend for the context tracking.
564
565 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
566 don't want in production.
567
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570 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
571 range 2 64 if 64BIT
572 range 2 32 if !64BIT
28f6569a 573 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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574 default 64 if 64BIT
575 default 32 if !64BIT
576 help
577 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
578 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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579 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
580 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
581 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
582 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
583 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
584 code paths on small(er) systems.
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586 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
587 Take the default if unsure.
588
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589config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
590 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
591 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
592 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
28f6569a 593 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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594 default 16
595 help
596 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
597 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
598 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
599 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
600 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
601 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
602 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
603 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
604 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
605 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
606 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
607 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
608 leaf-level fanouts work well.
609
610 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
611
612 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
613
614 Take the default if unsure.
615
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616config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
617 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
28f6569a 618 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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620 help
621 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
622 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
623 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
624 strong NUMA behavior.
625
626 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
627
628 Say N if unsure.
629
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630config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
631 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
3451d024 632 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
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633 default n
634 help
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635 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
636 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
637 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
638 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
639 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
640 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
641 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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644 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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646 Say N if you are unsure.
647
c903ff83 648config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 649 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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651 help
f41d911f 652 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 653 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 654 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 655
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656config RCU_BOOST
657 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 658 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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659 default n
660 help
661 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
662 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
663 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
664 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
665
666 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
667 Say N here if you are unsure.
668
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670 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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672 depends on RCU_BOOST
673 default 1
674 help
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676 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
677 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
678 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
679 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
680 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
681 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
682 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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683 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
684
685 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
686 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
687 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 688 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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690 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
691 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
692 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 693 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 694 set to priority 6 or higher.
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696 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
697
698config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
699 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
700 range 0 3000
701 depends on RCU_BOOST
702 default 500
703 help
704 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
705 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
706 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
707 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
708
709 Accept the default if unsure.
710
3fbfbf7a 711config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 712 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 713 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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715 help
716 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
717 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
718 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
719 asymmetric multiprocessors.
720
721 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
722 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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724 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
725 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
726 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
727 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
728 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
729 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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34ed6246 731 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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732 Say N here if you are unsure.
733
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735 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
736 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 737 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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740 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
741 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
742 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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744config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
745 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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747 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
748 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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750 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
751 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
752
753 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
754 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
755 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
758 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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761 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
762 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
763 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
764 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
765 context.
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767 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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769 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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771config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
772 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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774 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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776 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
777 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
778 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
779 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
780 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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782 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
783 or energy-efficiency reasons.
784
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789config BUILD_BIN2C
790 bool
791 default n
792
1da177e4 793config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 794 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 795 select BUILD_BIN2C
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797 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
798 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
799 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
800 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
801 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
802 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
803 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
804 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
805
806config IKCONFIG_PROC
807 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
808 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
809 ---help---
810 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
811 through /proc/config.gz.
812
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814 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
815 range 12 21
f17a32e9 816 default 17
361e9dfb 817 depends on PRINTK
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820 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
821 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
822 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
823
f17a32e9 824 Examples:
23b2899f 825 17 => 128 KB
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828 14 => 16 KB
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830 12 => 4 KB
831
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833 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 834 depends on SMP
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835 range 0 21
836 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
837 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 838 depends on PRINTK
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840 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
841 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
842 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
843 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
844 e.g. backtraces.
845
846 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
847 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
848 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
849 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
850 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
851 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
852
853 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
854 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
855
856 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
857 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
858 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
859
860 Examples shift values and their meaning:
861 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
862 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
863 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
864 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
865 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
866 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
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869# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
870#
871config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
872 bool
873
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875 bool
876
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878# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
879# balancing logic:
880#
881config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
882 bool
883
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885# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
886#
887config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
888 bool
889
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891# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
892#
893config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
894 bool
895
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897 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
898 default y
899 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
900 help
6d56a410 901 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
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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 boolean "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 918 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 919 help
23964d2d 920 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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922 controls or device isolation.
923 See
5cdc38f9 924 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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925 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
926 and resource control)
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928 Say N if unsure.
929
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931
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933 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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935 help
936 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
937 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 938 framework.
5cdc38f9 939
23964d2d 940 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 941
5cdc38f9 942config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 943 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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945 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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947
948config CGROUP_DEVICE
949 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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951 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
952 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
953
954config CPUSETS
955 bool "Cpuset support"
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957 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
958 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
959 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
960 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
961
962 Say N if unsure.
963
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965 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
966 depends on CPUSETS
967 default y
968
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970 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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972 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 973 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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976 bool "Resource counters"
977 help
978 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 979 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 981config MEMCG
00f0b825 982 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 983 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
79bd9814 984 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 985 help
84ad6d70 986 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 987 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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989 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
84ad6d70 990 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
f60e2a96 991 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
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992 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
993 at boot.
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995 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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997 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
998 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 999 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 1000
c255a458 1001config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 1002 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 1003 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1005 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1006 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1007 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1008 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1009 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1010 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1011 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1012 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1013 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1014 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1015 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1017 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1018config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1019 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1020 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1022 help
1023 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1024 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1025 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1026 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1028 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1029 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1030 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1031config MEMCG_KMEM
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1032 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1033 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1034 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1036 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1037 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1038 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1039 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1040 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1041 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1044 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
1045 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
1046 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
1047 purposes.
1048
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1050 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
19c92399 1051 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
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1053 help
1054 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1055 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1056 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1057 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1058 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1059 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1060 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1061 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1062 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1065 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1066 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1067 help
1068 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1069 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1071
1072 Say N if unsure.
1073
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1075 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1077 help
1078 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1079 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1080 tasks.
1081
1082if CGROUP_SCHED
1083config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1084 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1085 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1086 default CGROUP_SCHED
1087
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1089 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1090 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1091 default n
1092 help
1093 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1094 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1095 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1096 restriction.
1097 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1098
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1100 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1102 default n
1103 help
1104 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1105 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1107 realtime bandwidth for them.
1108 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1109
1110endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1111
afc24d49 1112config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1113 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1114 depends on BLOCK
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1116 ---help---
1117 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1118 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1119 policies.
1120
1121 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1122 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1124 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1126 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1129 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
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1132 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1133
1134config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1135 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1136 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1137 default n
1138 ---help---
1139 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1140 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1141
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1145 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1146 default n
1147 help
1148 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1149 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1150 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1151 entries.
1152
1153 If unsure, say N here.
1154
8dd2a82c 1155menuconfig NAMESPACES
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1157 default !EXPERT
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1159 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1160 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1161 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1162 different namespaces.
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1167 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1168 default y
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1170 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1171 uname() system call
1172
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1174 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1175 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1176 default y
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1178 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1179 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1181config USER_NS
19c92399 1182 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1183 default n
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1185 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1186 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1188 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1189 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1190 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1191 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1192 use.
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1195
74bd59bb 1196config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1197 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1198 default y
74bd59bb 1199 help
12d2b8f9 1200 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1201 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1203
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1205 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1206 depends on NET
17a6d441 1207 default y
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1209 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1210 of the network stack.
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1215 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1216 select CGROUPS
1217 select CGROUP_SCHED
1218 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1219 help
1220 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1221 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1222 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1223 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1224 upon task session.
1225
7af37bec 1226config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1227 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1228 depends on SYSFS
1229 default n
1230 help
1231 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1232 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1233 /sys/block/.
1234
1235 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1236 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1237
1238 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1239 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1240 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1241
1242 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1243 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1244 option enabled.
1245
1246 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1247 need to say Y here.
1248
1249config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1250 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1251 default n
1252 depends on SYSFS
1253 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1254 help
1255 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1256
1257 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1258 option.
1259
1260 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1261 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1262 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1263
1264config RELAY
1265 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1266 help
1267 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1268 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1269 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1270 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1271 user space.
1272
1273 If unsure, say N.
1274
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1275config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1276 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1277 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1278 help
1279 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1280 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1281 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1282 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1283 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1284
1285 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1286 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1287 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1288
1289 If unsure say Y.
1290
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1291if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1292
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1294
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1295endif
1296
c45b4f1f 1297config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1298 bool "Optimize for size"
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1299 help
1300 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1301 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1302
3a55fb0d 1303 If unsure, say N.
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1305config SYSCTL
1306 bool
1307
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1308config ANON_INODES
1309 bool
1310
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1311config HAVE_UID16
1312 bool
1313
1314config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1315 bool
1316 help
1317 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1318
1319config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1320 bool
1321 help
1322 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1323 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1324 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1325
1326config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1327 bool
1328 help
1329 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1330 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1331 the unaligned access emulation.
1332 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1333
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1334config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1335 bool
1336
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1338config BPF
1339 bool
1340
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1341menuconfig EXPERT
1342 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1343 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1344 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1345 help
1346 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1347 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1348 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1349 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1350
ae81f9e3 1351config UID16
6a108a14 1352 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1353 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1354 default y
1355 help
1356 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1357
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1358config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1359 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1360 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1361 ---help---
1362 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1363 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1364 architectures.
1365
1366 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1367
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1368config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1369 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1370 default y
1371 ---help---
1372 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1373 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1374 compatibility with some systems.
1375
1376 If unsure say Y here.
1377
b89a8171 1378config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1379 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1380 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1381 default n
b89a8171 1382 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1383 ---help---
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1384 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1385 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1386 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1387 information.
b89a8171 1388
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1389 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1390 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1391 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1392
c736de60 1393 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1394
1da177e4 1395config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1396 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1397 default y
1398 help
1399 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1400 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1401 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1402
1403config KALLSYMS_ALL
1404 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1405 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1406 help
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1408 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1409 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1410 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1411 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1412
1413 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1414 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1415 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1416 something like this).
1417
1418 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1420config PRINTK
1421 default y
6a108a14 1422 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1423 select IRQ_WORK
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1424 help
1425 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1426 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1427 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1428 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1429 strongly discouraged.
1430
c8538a7a 1431config BUG
6a108a14 1432 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1433 default y
1434 help
1435 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1436 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1437 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1438 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1439 Just say Y.
1440
708e9a79 1441config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1442 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1443 default y
6a108a14 1444 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1445 help
1446 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1447
8761f1ab 1448
e5e1d3cb 1449config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1450 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1451 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1452 select I8253_LOCK
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1453 default y
1454 help
1455 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1456 support, saving some memory.
1457
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1458config BASE_FULL
1459 default y
6a108a14 1460 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1461 help
1462 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1463 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1464 but may reduce performance.
1465
1466config FUTEX
6a108a14 1467 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1468 default y
23f78d4a 1469 select RT_MUTEXES
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1470 help
1471 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1472 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1473 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1474
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1475config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1476 bool
62b4d204 1477 depends on FUTEX
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1478 help
1479 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1480 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1481 checks.
1482
1da177e4 1483config EPOLL
6a108a14 1484 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1485 default y
448e3cee 1486 select ANON_INODES
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1487 help
1488 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1489 support for epoll family of system calls.
1490
fba2afaa 1491config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1492 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1493 select ANON_INODES
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1494 default y
1495 help
1496 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1497 on a file descriptor.
1498
1499 If unsure, say Y.
1500
b215e283 1501config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1502 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1503 select ANON_INODES
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1504 default y
1505 help
1506 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1507 events on a file descriptor.
1508
1509 If unsure, say Y.
1510
e1ad7468 1511config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1512 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1513 select ANON_INODES
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1514 default y
1515 help
1516 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1517 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1518
1519 If unsure, say Y.
1520
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1522config BPF_SYSCALL
1523 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT
1524 select ANON_INODES
1525 select BPF
1526 default n
1527 help
1528 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1529 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1530
1da177e4 1531config SHMEM
6a108a14 1532 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1533 default y
1534 depends on MMU
1535 help
1536 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1537 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1538 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1539 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1540 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1541
ebf3f09c 1542config AIO
6a108a14 1543 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1544 default y
1545 help
1546 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1547 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1548 this option saves about 7k.
1549
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1550config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1551 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1552 default y
1553 help
1554 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1555 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1556 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1557 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1558 space.
1559
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1560config PCI_QUIRKS
1561 default y
1562 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1563 depends on PCI
1564 help
1565 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1566 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1567 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1568
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1569config EMBEDDED
1570 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1571 option allnoconfig_y
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1572 select EXPERT
1573 help
1574 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1575 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1576 for configuration.
1577
cdd6c482 1578config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1579 bool
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1580 help
1581 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1583config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1584 bool
1585 help
1586 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1587
57c0c15b 1588menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1589
cdd6c482 1590config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1591 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1592 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1593 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1594 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1595 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1596 help
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1597 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1598 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1599
dd77038d 1600 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1601 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1602
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1603 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1604 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1605 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1606 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1607 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1608 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1609 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1610
57c0c15b 1611 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1612 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1613 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1614 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1615 capabilities on top of those.
1616
1617 Say Y if unsure.
1618
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1619config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1620 default n
1621 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1622 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1623 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1624 help
1625 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1626
1627 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1628 that don't require it.
1629
1630 Say N if unsure.
1631
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1633
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1634config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1635 default y
6a108a14 1636 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1637 help
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1638 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1639 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1640 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1641 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1642
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1643config SLUB_DEBUG
1644 default y
6a108a14 1645 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1646 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1647 help
1648 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1649 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1650 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1651 no support for cache validation etc.
1652
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1653config COMPAT_BRK
1654 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1655 default y
1656 help
1657 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1658 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1659 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1660 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1661 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1662
1663 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1664
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1665choice
1666 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1667 default SLUB
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1668 help
1669 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1670
1671config SLAB
1672 bool "SLAB"
1673 help
1674 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1675 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1676 per cpu and per node queues.
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1678config SLUB
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1679 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1680 help
1681 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1682 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1683 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1684 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1685 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1686 a slab allocator.
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1688config SLOB
6a108a14 1689 depends on EXPERT
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1690 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1691 help
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1692 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1693 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1694 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1696endchoice
1697
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1698config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1699 default y
b39ffbf8 1700 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1701 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1702 help
1703 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1704 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1705 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1706 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1707 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1708
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1709config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1710 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1711 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1712 default n
1713 help
1714 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1715 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1716 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1717 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1718 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1719 then the flag will be ignored.
1720
1721 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1722 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1723
1724 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1725 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1726 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1727 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1728
1729 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1730
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1731config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1732 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1733 depends on KEYS
1734 help
1735 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1736 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1737 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1738 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1739 keys already in the keyring.
1740
1741 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1742
125e5645 1743config PROFILING
b309a294 1744 bool "Profiling support"
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1745 help
1746 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1747 by profilers such as OProfile.
1748
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1750# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1751# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1752#
97e1c18e 1753config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1754 bool
97e1c18e 1755
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1756source "arch/Kconfig"
1757
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1759
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1760config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1761 bool
1762 default n
1763
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1764config SLABINFO
1765 bool
1766 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1767 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1768 default y
1769
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1770config RT_MUTEXES
1771 boolean
ae81f9e3 1772
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1773config BASE_SMALL
1774 int
1775 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1776 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1777
66da5733 1778menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1779 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1780 option modules
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1781 help
1782 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1783 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1784 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1785 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1786 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1787 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1788 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1789 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1790 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1791
1792 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1793 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1794 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1795 this).
1796
1797 If unsure, say Y.
1798
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1800
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1801config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1802 bool "Forced module loading"
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1803 default n
1804 help
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1805 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1806 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1807 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1808
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1809config MODULE_UNLOAD
1810 bool "Module unloading"
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1811 help
1812 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1813 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1815 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1816
1817config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1818 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1819 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1820 help
1821 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1822 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1823 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1824 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1825 If unsure, say N.
1826
1da177e4 1827config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1828 bool "Module versioning support"
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1829 help
1830 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1831 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1832 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1833 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1834 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1835 unsure, say N.
1836
1837config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1838 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1840 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1841 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1842 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1843 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1844 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1845 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1846 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1847
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1848config MODULE_SIG
1849 bool "Module signature verification"
1850 depends on MODULES
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1852 select KEYS
1853 select CRYPTO
1854 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1855 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1856 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1857 select ASN1
1858 select OID_REGISTRY
1859 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1860 help
1861 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1862 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1863 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1864
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1865 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1866 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1867 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1868 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1869
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1870config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1871 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1872 depends on MODULE_SIG
1873 help
1874 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1875 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1877config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1878 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1879 default y
1880 depends on MODULE_SIG
1881 help
1882 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1883 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1884
1885comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1886 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1887
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1889 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1890 depends on MODULE_SIG
1891 help
1892 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1893 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1894 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1895 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1896 the signature on that module.
1897
1898config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1899 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1900 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1901
1902config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1903 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1904 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1905
1906config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1907 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1908 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1909
1910config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1911 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1912 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1913
1914config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1915 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1916 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1917
1918endchoice
1919
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1920config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1921 string
1922 depends on MODULE_SIG
1923 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1924 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1925 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1926 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1927 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1928
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1930 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1931 depends on MODULES
1932 help
1933 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1934 modules_install' is run.
1935
1936 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1937 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1938
1939 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1940 and xz compressed modules.
1941
1942 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1943 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1944 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1945
1946 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1947 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1948 initrd or initramfs instead.
1949
1950 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1951 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1952 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1953
1954choice
1955 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1956 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1957 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1958 help
1959 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1960 'make modules_install'.
1961
1962 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1963
1964config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1965 bool "GZIP"
1966
1967config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1968 bool "XZ"
1969
1970endchoice
1971
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1972endif # MODULES
1973
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1974config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1975 bool
1976 help
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1977 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1978 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1979 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1980 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1981 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1983config STOP_MACHINE
1984 bool
1985 default y
1986 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1987 help
1988 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1990source "block/Kconfig"
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1992config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1993 bool
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1995config PADATA
1996 depends on SMP
1997 bool
1998
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1999# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2000# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2001# mappings
2002config BROKEN_RODATA
2003 bool
2004
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2005config ASN1
2006 tristate
2007 help
2008 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2009 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2010 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2011 functions to call on what tags.
2012
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