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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
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30config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
31 bool
32
ff0cfc66 33menu "General setup"
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34
35config EXPERIMENTAL
36 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
37 ---help---
38 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
39 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
40 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
41 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
42 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
43 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
44 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
45 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
46 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
47 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
48 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
49 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
50 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
51 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
52 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
53 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
54
55 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
56 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
57 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
58
59 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
60 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
61 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
62 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
63 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
64 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
65
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66config BROKEN
67 bool
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68
69config BROKEN_ON_SMP
70 bool
71 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
72 default y
73
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74config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
75 int
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76 default 32 if !UML
77 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 78 help
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79 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
80 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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1da177e4 82
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83config CROSS_COMPILE
84 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
85 help
86 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
87 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
88 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
89 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
90
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91config LOCALVERSION
92 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
93 help
94 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
95 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
96 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
97 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
98 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
99 be a maximum of 64 characters.
100
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101config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
102 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
103 default y
104 help
105 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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106 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
107 top of tree revision.
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108
109 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 110 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 111 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 112 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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114 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
115 by running the command:
116
117 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
118
119 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
125 bool
126
127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
128 bool
129
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130config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
131 bool
132
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133config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
30d65dbf 136choice
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137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 140 help
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141 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
142 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
143 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
144 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
145 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
146
147 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
148 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
149 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
150 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
151
152 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
153 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
154 size matters less.
155
156 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
157
158config KERNEL_GZIP
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159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
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162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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164
165config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 170 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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171 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
172 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
173 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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175config KERNEL_LZMA
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176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
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179 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
180 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
181 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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183config KERNEL_XZ
184 bool "XZ"
185 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
186 help
187 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
188 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
189 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
190 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
191 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
192 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
193
194 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
195 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
196 and LZO. Compression is slow.
197
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198config KERNEL_LZO
199 bool "LZO"
200 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
201 help
0a4dd35c 202 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 203 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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204 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
205
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206endchoice
207
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208config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
209 string "Default hostname"
210 default "(none)"
211 help
212 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
213 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
214 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
215 system more usable with less configuration.
216
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217config SWAP
218 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 219 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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220 default y
221 help
222 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 223 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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224 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
225 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
226
227config SYSVIPC
228 bool "System V IPC"
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229 ---help---
230 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
231 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
232 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
233 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
234 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
235 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
236 you'll need to say Y here.
237
238 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
239 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
240 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
241
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242config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
243 bool
244 depends on SYSVIPC
245 depends on SYSCTL
246 default y
247
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248config POSIX_MQUEUE
249 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
250 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
251 ---help---
252 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
253 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
254 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
255 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 256 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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257
258 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
259 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
260 operations on message queues.
261
262 If unsure, say Y.
263
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264config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
265 bool
266 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
267 depends on SYSCTL
268 default y
269
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270config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
271 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
272 help
273 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
274 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
275 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
276 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
277 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
278 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
279 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
280 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
281 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
282
283config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
284 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
285 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
286 default n
287 help
288 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
289 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
290 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
291 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
292 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 293 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 294
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295config FHANDLE
296 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
297 select EXPORTFS
298 help
299 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
300 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
301 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
302 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
303 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
304 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
305 syscalls.
306
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307config TASKSTATS
308 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
309 depends on NET
310 default n
311 help
312 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
313 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
314 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
315 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
316 space on task exit.
317
318 Say N if unsure.
319
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320config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
321 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 322 depends on TASKSTATS
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323 help
324 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
325 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
326 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
327 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
328
329 Say N if unsure.
330
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331config TASK_XACCT
332 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
333 depends on TASKSTATS
334 help
335 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
336 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
337
338 Say N if unsure.
339
340config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
341 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
342 depends on TASK_XACCT
343 help
344 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
345 task has caused.
346
347 Say N if unsure.
348
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349config AUDIT
350 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 351 depends on NET
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352 help
353 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
354 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
355 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
356 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
357
358config AUDITSYSCALL
359 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
8f827a14 360 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
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361 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
362 help
363 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
364 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
67640b60 365 such as SELinux.
1da177e4 366
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367config AUDIT_WATCH
368 def_bool y
369 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
370 select FSNOTIFY
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372config AUDIT_TREE
373 def_bool y
63c882a0 374 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28a3a7eb 375 select FSNOTIFY
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377config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
378 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
379 depends on AUDIT
380 help
f429ee3b 381 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
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382 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
383 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
384 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
385 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
386 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
387 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
388 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
389 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
390
d9817ebe 391source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
764e0da1 392source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
d9817ebe 393
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394menu "RCU Subsystem"
395
396choice
397 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 398 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 399
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400config TREE_RCU
401 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 402 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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403 help
404 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
405 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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406 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
407 smaller systems.
c903ff83 408
f41d911f 409config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 410 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
8008e129 411 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
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412 help
413 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
414 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
415 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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416 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
417 smaller systems.
f41d911f 418
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419config TINY_RCU
420 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 421 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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422 help
423 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
424 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
425 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
426 memory footprint of RCU.
427
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428config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
429 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 430 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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431 help
432 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
433 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
434 memory footprint of RCU.
435
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437
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438config PREEMPT_RCU
439 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
440 help
441 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
442 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
443
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444config RCU_FANOUT
445 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
446 range 2 64 if 64BIT
447 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 448 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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449 default 64 if 64BIT
450 default 32 if !64BIT
451 help
452 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
453 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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454 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
455 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
456 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
457 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
458 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
459 code paths on small(er) systems.
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460
461 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
462 Take the default if unsure.
463
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464config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
465 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
466 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
467 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
468 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
469 default 16
470 help
471 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
472 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
473 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
474 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
475 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
476 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
477 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
478 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
479 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
480 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
481 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
482 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
483 leaf-level fanouts work well.
484
485 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
486
487 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
488
489 Take the default if unsure.
490
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491config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
492 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 493 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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494 default n
495 help
496 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
497 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
498 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
499 strong NUMA behavior.
500
501 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
502
503 Say N if unsure.
504
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505config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
506 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 507 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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508 default n
509 help
510 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
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511 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
512 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
513 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
514 large numbers of CPUs.
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516 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
517 if you have relatively few CPUs.
518
519 Say N if you are unsure.
520
c903ff83 521config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 522 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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523 select DEBUG_FS
524 help
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525 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
526 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
527 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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529config RCU_BOOST
530 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 531 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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532 default n
533 help
534 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
535 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
536 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
537 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
538
539 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
540 Say N here if you are unsure.
541
542config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
543 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
544 range 1 99
545 depends on RCU_BOOST
546 default 1
547 help
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548 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
549 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
550 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
551 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
552 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
553 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
554 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
555 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
556
557 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
558 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
559 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
560 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
561 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
562 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
563 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
564 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
565 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
566 set to priority 6 or higher.
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568 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
569
570config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
571 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
572 range 0 3000
573 depends on RCU_BOOST
574 default 500
575 help
576 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
577 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
578 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
579 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
580
581 Accept the default if unsure.
582
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584
1da177e4 585config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 586 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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587 ---help---
588 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
589 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
590 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
591 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
592 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
593 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
594 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
595 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
596
597config IKCONFIG_PROC
598 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
599 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
600 ---help---
601 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
602 through /proc/config.gz.
603
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604config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
605 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
606 range 12 21
f17a32e9 607 default 17
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608 help
609 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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610 Examples:
611 17 => 128 KB
612 16 => 64 KB
613 15 => 32 KB
614 14 => 16 KB
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615 13 => 8 KB
616 12 => 4 KB
617
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619# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
620#
621config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
622 bool
623
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625 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 626 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 627 help
23964d2d 628 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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629 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
630 controls or device isolation.
631 See
5cdc38f9 632 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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633 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
634 and resource control)
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636 Say N if unsure.
637
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639
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641 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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643 help
644 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
645 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 646 framework.
5cdc38f9 647
23964d2d 648 Say N if unsure.
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5cdc38f9 650config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 651 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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653 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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655
656config CGROUP_DEVICE
657 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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659 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
660 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
661
662config CPUSETS
663 bool "Cpuset support"
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665 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
666 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
667 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
668 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
669
670 Say N if unsure.
671
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673 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
674 depends on CPUSETS
675 default y
676
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677config CGROUP_CPUACCT
678 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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680 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 681 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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683config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
684 bool "Resource counters"
685 help
686 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 687 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 689config MEMCG
00f0b825 690 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 691 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 692 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 693 help
84ad6d70 694 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 695 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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697 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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698 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
699 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
700 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
701 at boot.
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703 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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705 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
706 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 707 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 708
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710 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
711
c255a458 712config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 713 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 714 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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716 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
717 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
718 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
719 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
720 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
721 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
722 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
723 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
724 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
725 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 726 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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728 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 729config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 730 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 731 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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732 default y
733 help
734 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
735 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 736 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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737 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
738 parameter should have this option unselected.
739 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
740 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 741 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 742config MEMCG_KMEM
e5671dfa 743 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
c255a458 744 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
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746 help
747 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
748 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
749 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
750 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
751 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
752 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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754config CGROUP_HUGETLB
755 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
756 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
757 default n
758 help
759 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
760 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
761 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
762 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
763 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
764 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
765 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
766 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
767 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
768
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770 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
771 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
772 help
773 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 774 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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776
777 Say N if unsure.
778
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780 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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781 default n
782 help
783 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
784 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
785 tasks.
786
787if CGROUP_SCHED
788config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
789 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
790 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
791 default CGROUP_SCHED
792
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794 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
795 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
796 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
797 default n
798 help
799 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
800 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
801 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
802 restriction.
803 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
804
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806 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
807 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
808 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
809 default n
810 help
811 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 812 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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813 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
814 realtime bandwidth for them.
815 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
816
817endif #CGROUP_SCHED
818
afc24d49 819config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 820 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 821 depends on BLOCK
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823 ---help---
824 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
825 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
826 policies.
827
828 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
829 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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830 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
831 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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833 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 834 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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835 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
836 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 837 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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839 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
840
841config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
842 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
843 depends on BLK_CGROUP
844 default n
845 ---help---
846 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
847 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
848
23964d2d 849endif # CGROUPS
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851config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
852 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
853 default n
854 help
855 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
856 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
857 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
858 entries.
859
860 If unsure, say N here.
861
8dd2a82c 862menuconfig NAMESPACES
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864 default !EXPERT
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865 help
866 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
867 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
868 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
869 different namespaces.
870
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871if NAMESPACES
872
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873config UTS_NS
874 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 875 default y
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876 help
877 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
878 uname() system call
879
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880config IPC_NS
881 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 882 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 883 default y
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884 help
885 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 886 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 887
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889 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8dd2a82c 890 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
e1c972b6 891 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
5673a94c 892 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
e1c972b6 893
5673a94c 894 default n
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896 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
897 to provide different user info for different servers.
898 If unsure, say N.
899
74bd59bb 900config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 901 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 902 default y
74bd59bb 903 help
12d2b8f9 904 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 905 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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906 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
907
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908config NET_NS
909 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 910 depends on NET
17a6d441 911 default y
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912 help
913 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
914 of the network stack.
915
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917
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918config UIDGID_CONVERTED
919 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
920 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
921 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
922 # the user namespace.
923 bool
924 default y
925
e1c972b6 926 # Networking
e1c972b6 927 depends on NET_9P = n
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929 # Filesystems
e1c972b6 930 depends on 9P_FS = n
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931 depends on AFS_FS = n
932 depends on AUTOFS4_FS = n
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933 depends on BFS_FS = n
934 depends on BTRFS_FS = n
935 depends on CEPH_FS = n
936 depends on CIFS = n
937 depends on CODA_FS = n
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938 depends on FUSE_FS = n
939 depends on GFS2_FS = n
e1c972b6 940 depends on HPFS_FS = n
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941 depends on JFFS2_FS = n
942 depends on JFS_FS = n
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943 depends on NCP_FS = n
944 depends on NFSD = n
945 depends on NFS_FS = n
e1c972b6 946 depends on OCFS2_FS = n
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947 depends on REISERFS_FS = n
948 depends on SQUASHFS = n
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949 depends on UBIFS_FS = n
950 depends on UDF_FS = n
951 depends on UFS_FS = n
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952 depends on XFS_FS = n
953
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955 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
e1c972b6 956 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
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957 default n
958 help
959 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
960 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
961
962 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
963
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965 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
966 select EVENTFD
967 select CGROUPS
968 select CGROUP_SCHED
969 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
970 help
971 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
972 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
973 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
974 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
975 upon task session.
976
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978 bool
979
980config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 981 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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982 depends on SYSFS
983 default n
984 help
985 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
986 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
987 /sys/block/.
988
989 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
990 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
991
992 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
993 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
994 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
995
996 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
997 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
998 option enabled.
999
1000 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1001 need to say Y here.
1002
1003config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1004 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1006 depends on SYSFS
1007 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1008 help
1009 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1010
1011 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1012 option.
1013
1014 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1015 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1016 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1017
1018config RELAY
1019 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1020 help
1021 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1022 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1023 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1024 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1025 user space.
1026
1027 If unsure, say N.
1028
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1030 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1031 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1032 help
1033 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1034 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1035 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1036 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1037 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1038
1039 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1040 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1041 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1042
1043 If unsure say Y.
1044
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1046
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1048
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1049endif
1050
c45b4f1f 1051config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1052 bool "Optimize for size"
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1053 help
1054 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1055 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1056
775a7229 1057 If unsure, say Y.
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1060 bool
1061
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1063 bool
1064
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1066 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1067 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1068 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1069 help
1070 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1071 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1072 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1073 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1074
ae81f9e3 1075config UID16
6a108a14 1076 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
09337f50 1077 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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1078 default y
1079 help
1080 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1081
b89a8171 1082config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1083 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1084 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1085 default n
b89a8171 1086 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1087 ---help---
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1088 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1089 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1090 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1091 information.
b89a8171 1092
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1093 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1094 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1095 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1096
c736de60 1097 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1098
1da177e4 1099config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1100 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1101 default y
1102 help
1103 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1104 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1105 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1106
1107config KALLSYMS_ALL
1108 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1110 help
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1112 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1113 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1114 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1115 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1116
1117 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1118 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1119 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1120 something like this).
1121
1122 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 1124config HOTPLUG
6a108a14 1125 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
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1126 default y
1127 help
1128 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
1129 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
1130 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
1131 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
1132
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1134 default y
6a108a14 1135 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
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1137 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1138 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1139 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1140 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1141 strongly discouraged.
1142
c8538a7a 1143config BUG
6a108a14 1144 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1145 default y
1146 help
1147 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1148 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1149 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1150 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1151 Just say Y.
1152
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1154 default y
6a108a14 1155 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1156 help
1157 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1158
8761f1ab 1159
e5e1d3cb 1160config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1161 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1162 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1163 select I8253_LOCK
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1164 default y
1165 help
1166 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1167 support, saving some memory.
1168
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1169config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1170 bool
1171
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1172config BASE_FULL
1173 default y
6a108a14 1174 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1175 help
1176 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1177 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1178 but may reduce performance.
1179
1180config FUTEX
6a108a14 1181 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1182 default y
23f78d4a 1183 select RT_MUTEXES
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1184 help
1185 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1186 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1187 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1188
1189config EPOLL
6a108a14 1190 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1191 default y
448e3cee 1192 select ANON_INODES
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1193 help
1194 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1195 support for epoll family of system calls.
1196
fba2afaa 1197config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1198 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1199 select ANON_INODES
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1200 default y
1201 help
1202 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1203 on a file descriptor.
1204
1205 If unsure, say Y.
1206
b215e283 1207config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1208 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1209 select ANON_INODES
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1210 default y
1211 help
1212 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1213 events on a file descriptor.
1214
1215 If unsure, say Y.
1216
e1ad7468 1217config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1218 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1219 select ANON_INODES
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1220 default y
1221 help
1222 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1223 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1224
1225 If unsure, say Y.
1226
1da177e4 1227config SHMEM
6a108a14 1228 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1229 default y
1230 depends on MMU
1231 help
1232 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1233 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1234 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1235 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1236 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1237
ebf3f09c 1238config AIO
6a108a14 1239 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1240 default y
1241 help
1242 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1243 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1244 this option saves about 7k.
1245
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1247 bool "Embedded system"
1248 select EXPERT
1249 help
1250 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1251 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1252 for configuration.
1253
cdd6c482 1254config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1255 bool
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1256 help
1257 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1259config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1260 bool
1261 help
1262 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1263
57c0c15b 1264menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1266config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1267 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1268 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1269 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1270 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1271 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1272 help
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1273 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1274 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1275
dd77038d 1276 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1277 use of generic tracepoints.
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1279 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1280 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1281 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1282 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1283 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1284 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1285 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1286
57c0c15b 1287 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1288 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1289 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1290 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1291 capabilities on top of those.
1292
1293 Say Y if unsure.
1294
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1295config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1296 default n
1297 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1298 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1299 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1300 help
1301 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1302
1303 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1304 that don't require it.
1305
1306 Say N if unsure.
1307
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1310config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1311 default y
6a108a14 1312 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1313 help
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1314 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1315 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1316 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1317 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1319config PCI_QUIRKS
1320 default y
6a108a14 1321 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1322 depends on PCI
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1323 help
1324 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1325 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1326 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1327
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1328config SLUB_DEBUG
1329 default y
6a108a14 1330 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1331 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1332 help
1333 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1334 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1335 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1336 no support for cache validation etc.
1337
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1339 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1340 default y
1341 help
1342 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1343 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1344 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1345 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1347
1348 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1349
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1351 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1352 default SLUB
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1353 help
1354 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1355
1356config SLAB
1357 bool "SLAB"
1358 help
1359 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1360 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1361 per cpu and per node queues.
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1363config SLUB
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1364 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1365 help
1366 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1367 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1368 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1369 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1370 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1371 a slab allocator.
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1373config SLOB
6a108a14 1374 depends on EXPERT
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1375 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1376 help
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1377 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1378 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1379 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1383config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1384 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1385 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1386 default n
1387 help
1388 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1389 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1390 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1391 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1392 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1393 then the flag will be ignored.
1394
1395 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1396 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1397
1398 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1399 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1400 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1401 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1402
1403 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1404
125e5645 1405config PROFILING
b309a294 1406 bool "Profiling support"
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1408 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1409 by profilers such as OProfile.
1410
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1412# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1413# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1414#
97e1c18e 1415config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1416 bool
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1419
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1421
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1422config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1423 bool
1424 default n
1425
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1426config SLABINFO
1427 bool
1428 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1429 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1430 default y
1431
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1432config RT_MUTEXES
1433 boolean
ae81f9e3 1434
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1435config BASE_SMALL
1436 int
1437 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1438 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1439
66da5733 1440menuconfig MODULES
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1441 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1442 help
1443 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1444 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1445 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1446 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1447 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1448 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1449 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1450 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1451 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1452
1453 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1454 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1455 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1456 this).
1457
1458 If unsure, say Y.
1459
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1461
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1462config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1463 bool "Forced module loading"
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1464 default n
1465 help
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1466 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1467 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1468 is usually a really bad idea.
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1470config MODULE_UNLOAD
1471 bool "Module unloading"
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1472 help
1473 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1474 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1476 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1478config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1479 bool "Forced module unloading"
1480 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1481 help
1482 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1483 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1484 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1485 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1486 If unsure, say N.
1487
1da177e4 1488config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1489 bool "Module versioning support"
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1490 help
1491 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1492 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1493 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1494 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1495 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1496 unsure, say N.
1497
1498config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1499 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1500 help
1501 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1502 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1503 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1504 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1505 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1506 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1507 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1508
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1510
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1512 bool
1513 help
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1514 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1515 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1517 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1518 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1519
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1520config STOP_MACHINE
1521 bool
1522 default y
1523 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1524 help
1525 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1527source "block/Kconfig"
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1529config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1530 bool
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1532config PADATA
1533 depends on SMP
1534 bool
1535
6beb0009 1536source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"