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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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30
31config EXPERIMENTAL
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32 bool
33 default y
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35config BROKEN
36 bool
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37
38config BROKEN_ON_SMP
39 bool
40 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
41 default y
42
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43config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
44 int
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45 default 32 if !UML
46 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 47 help
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48 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
49 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 50
1da177e4 51
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52config CROSS_COMPILE
53 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
54 help
55 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
56 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
57 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
58 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
59
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60config LOCALVERSION
61 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
62 help
63 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
64 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
65 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
66 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
67 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
68 be a maximum of 64 characters.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
71 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
72 default y
73 help
74 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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75 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
76 top of tree revision.
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77
78 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 79 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 80 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 81 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 82
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83 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
84 by running the command:
85
86 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
87
88 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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90config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
91 bool
92
93config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
94 bool
95
96config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
97 bool
98
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99config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
100 bool
101
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102config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
103 bool
104
30d65dbf 105choice
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106 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
107 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 108 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 109 help
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110 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
111 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
112 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
113 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
114 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
115
116 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
117 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
118 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
119 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
120
121 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
122 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
123 size matters less.
124
125 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
126
127config KERNEL_GZIP
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128 bool "Gzip"
129 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
130 help
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131 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
132 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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134config KERNEL_BZIP2
135 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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137 help
138 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 139 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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140 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
141 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
142 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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144config KERNEL_LZMA
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145 bool "LZMA"
146 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
147 help
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148 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
149 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
150 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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152config KERNEL_XZ
153 bool "XZ"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
155 help
156 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
157 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
158 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
159 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
160 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
161 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
162
163 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
164 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
165 and LZO. Compression is slow.
166
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167config KERNEL_LZO
168 bool "LZO"
169 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
170 help
0a4dd35c 171 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 172 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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173 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
174
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175endchoice
176
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177config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
178 string "Default hostname"
179 default "(none)"
180 help
181 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
182 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
183 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
184 system more usable with less configuration.
185
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186config SWAP
187 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 188 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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189 default y
190 help
191 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 192 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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193 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
194 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
195
196config SYSVIPC
197 bool "System V IPC"
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198 ---help---
199 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
200 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
201 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
202 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
203 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
204 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
205 you'll need to say Y here.
206
207 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
208 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
209 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
210
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211config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
212 bool
213 depends on SYSVIPC
214 depends on SYSCTL
215 default y
216
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217config POSIX_MQUEUE
218 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 219 depends on NET
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220 ---help---
221 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
222 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
223 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
224 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 225 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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226
227 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
228 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
229 operations on message queues.
230
231 If unsure, say Y.
232
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233config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
234 bool
235 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
236 depends on SYSCTL
237 default y
238
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239config FHANDLE
240 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
241 select EXPORTFS
242 help
243 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
244 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
245 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
246 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
247 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
248 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
249 syscalls.
250
251config AUDIT
252 bool "Auditing support"
253 depends on NET
254 help
255 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
256 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
257 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
258 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
259
260config AUDITSYSCALL
261 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
262 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
263 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
264 help
265 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
266 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
267 such as SELinux.
268
269config AUDIT_WATCH
270 def_bool y
271 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
272 select FSNOTIFY
273
274config AUDIT_TREE
275 def_bool y
276 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
277 select FSNOTIFY
278
279config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
280 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
281 depends on AUDIT
282 help
283 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
284 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
285 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
286 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
287 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
288 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
289 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
290 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
291 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
292
293source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
294source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
295
296menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
297
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298config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
299 bool
300
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301choice
302 prompt "Cputime accounting"
303 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 304 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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306# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
307config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
308 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
309 depends on !S390
310 help
311 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
312 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
313 granularity.
314
315 If unsure, say Y.
316
abf917cd 317config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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318 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
319 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
abf917cd 320 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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321 help
322 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
323 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
324 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
325 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
326 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
327 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
328 systems.
329
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330config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
331 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
332 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
333 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
334 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
335 help
336 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
337 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
338 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
339 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
340 overhead.
341
342 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
343 dynticks subsystem development.
344
345 If unsure, say N.
346
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347config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
348 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
349 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
350 help
351 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
352 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
353 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
354 small performance impact.
355
356 If in doubt, say N here.
357
358endchoice
359
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360config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
361 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
362 help
363 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
364 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
365 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
366 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
367 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
368 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
369 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
370 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
371 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
372
373config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
374 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
375 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
376 default n
377 help
378 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
379 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
380 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
381 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
382 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 383 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 384
c757249a 385config TASKSTATS
19c92399 386 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
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387 depends on NET
388 default n
389 help
390 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
391 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
392 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
393 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
394 space on task exit.
395
396 Say N if unsure.
397
ca74e92b 398config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 399 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 400 depends on TASKSTATS
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401 help
402 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
403 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
404 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
405 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
406
407 Say N if unsure.
408
18f705f4 409config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 410 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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411 depends on TASKSTATS
412 help
413 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
414 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
415
416 Say N if unsure.
417
418config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 419 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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420 depends on TASK_XACCT
421 help
422 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
423 task has caused.
424
425 Say N if unsure.
426
391dc69c 427endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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429menu "RCU Subsystem"
430
431choice
432 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 433 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 434
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435config TREE_RCU
436 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 437 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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438 help
439 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
440 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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441 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
442 smaller systems.
c903ff83 443
f41d911f 444config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 445 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 446 depends on PREEMPT
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447 help
448 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
449 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
450 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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451 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
452 smaller systems.
f41d911f 453
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454 Select this option if you are unsure.
455
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456config TINY_RCU
457 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 458 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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459 help
460 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
461 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
462 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
463 memory footprint of RCU.
464
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465config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
466 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 467 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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468 help
469 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
470 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
471 memory footprint of RCU.
472
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474
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475config PREEMPT_RCU
476 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
477 help
478 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
479 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
480
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481config RCU_STALL_COMMON
482 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
483 help
484 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
485 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
486 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
487 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
488
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489config CONTEXT_TRACKING
490 bool
491
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492config RCU_USER_QS
493 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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494 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
495 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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496 help
497 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
498 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
499 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
500 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 501 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 502
d677124b 503 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 504 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 505 adds unnecessary overhead.
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507 If unsure say N
508
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509config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
510 bool "Force context tracking"
511 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
1fd2b442 512 help
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513 Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
514 test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
515 quiescent states.
516 This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
517 full dynticks mode.
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519config RCU_FANOUT
520 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
521 range 2 64 if 64BIT
522 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 523 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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525 default 32 if !64BIT
526 help
527 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
528 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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529 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
530 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
531 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
532 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
533 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
534 code paths on small(er) systems.
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536 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
537 Take the default if unsure.
538
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539config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
540 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
541 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
542 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
543 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
544 default 16
545 help
546 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
547 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
548 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
549 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
550 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
551 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
552 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
553 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
554 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
555 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
556 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
557 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
558 leaf-level fanouts work well.
559
560 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
561
562 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
563
564 Take the default if unsure.
565
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567 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 568 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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570 help
571 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
572 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
573 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
574 strong NUMA behavior.
575
576 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
577
578 Say N if unsure.
579
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580config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
581 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 582 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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583 default n
584 help
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585 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in
586 order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly.
587 On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the
588 dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency.
589
590 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
591 care about real-time response.
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593 Say N if you are unsure.
594
c903ff83 595config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 596 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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597 select DEBUG_FS
598 help
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599 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
600 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
601 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 602
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603config RCU_BOOST
604 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 605 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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606 default n
607 help
608 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
609 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
610 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
611 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
612
613 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
614 Say N here if you are unsure.
615
616config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
617 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
618 range 1 99
619 depends on RCU_BOOST
620 default 1
621 help
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622 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
623 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
624 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
625 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
626 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
627 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
628 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
629 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
630
631 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
632 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
633 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
634 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
635 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
636 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
637 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
638 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
639 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
640 set to priority 6 or higher.
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642 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
643
644config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
645 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
646 range 0 3000
647 depends on RCU_BOOST
648 default 500
649 help
650 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
651 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
652 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
653 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
654
655 Accept the default if unsure.
656
3fbfbf7a 657config RCU_NOCB_CPU
34ed6246 658 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL"
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660 default n
661 help
662 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
663 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
664 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
665 asymmetric multiprocessors.
666
667 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
668 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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670 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
671 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
672 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
673 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
674 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
675 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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34ed6246 677 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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679
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681 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
682 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
683 help
684 This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time.
685 Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs=
686 boot parameter.
687
688config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
689 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
690 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
691 help
692 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
693 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
694 no-CBs CPUs.
695
696config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
697 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
698 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
699 help
700 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU. Additional CPUs
701 may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot
702 parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
703
704 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
705 or energy-efficiency reasons.
706
707config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
708 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
709 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
710 help
711 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
712 boot parameter will be ignored.
713
714 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
715 or energy-efficiency reasons.
716
717endchoice
718
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720
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f2443ab6 722 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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723 ---help---
724 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
725 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
726 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
727 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
728 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
729 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
730 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
731 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
732
733config IKCONFIG_PROC
734 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
735 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
736 ---help---
737 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
738 through /proc/config.gz.
739
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741 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
742 range 12 21
f17a32e9 743 default 17
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745 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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747 17 => 128 KB
748 16 => 64 KB
749 15 => 32 KB
750 14 => 16 KB
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752 12 => 4 KB
753
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755# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
756#
757config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
758 bool
759
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761# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
762# balancing logic:
763#
764config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
765 bool
766
767# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
768# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
769#
770config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
771 bool
772
773#
774# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
775config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
776 bool
777
778config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
779 bool
780 default y
781 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
782 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
783
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785 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
786 default y
787 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
788 help
789 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
790 machine.
791
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793 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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795 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
796 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
797 help
798 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
799 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
800 it is references to the node the task is running on.
801
802 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
803
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805 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 806 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 807 help
23964d2d 808 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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810 controls or device isolation.
811 See
5cdc38f9 812 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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813 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
814 and resource control)
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816 Say N if unsure.
817
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819
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821 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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823 help
824 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
825 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 826 framework.
5cdc38f9 827
23964d2d 828 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 829
5cdc38f9 830config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 831 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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833 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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835
836config CGROUP_DEVICE
837 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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839 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
840 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
841
842config CPUSETS
843 bool "Cpuset support"
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845 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
846 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
847 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
848 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
849
850 Say N if unsure.
851
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853 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
854 depends on CPUSETS
855 default y
856
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858 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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859 help
860 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 861 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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864 bool "Resource counters"
865 help
866 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 867 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 869config MEMCG
00f0b825 870 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 871 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 872 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 873 help
84ad6d70 874 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 875 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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877 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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878 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
879 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
880 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
881 at boot.
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883 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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885 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
886 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 887 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 888
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890 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
891
c255a458 892config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 893 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 894 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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896 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
897 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
898 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
899 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
900 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
901 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
902 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
903 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
904 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
905 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 906 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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908 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 909config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 910 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 911 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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913 help
914 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
915 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 916 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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918 parameter should have this option unselected.
919 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
920 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 921 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 922config MEMCG_KMEM
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923 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
924 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 925 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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927 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
928 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
929 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
930 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
931 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
932 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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935 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
19c92399 936 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
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938 help
939 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
940 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
941 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
942 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
943 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
944 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
945 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
946 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
947 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
948
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950 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
951 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
952 help
953 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 954 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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956
957 Say N if unsure.
958
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960 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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962 help
963 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
964 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
965 tasks.
966
967if CGROUP_SCHED
968config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
969 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
970 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
971 default CGROUP_SCHED
972
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974 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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976 default n
977 help
978 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
979 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
980 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
981 restriction.
982 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
983
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985 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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987 default n
988 help
989 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 990 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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992 realtime bandwidth for them.
993 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
994
995endif #CGROUP_SCHED
996
afc24d49 997config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 998 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 999 depends on BLOCK
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1001 ---help---
1002 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1003 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1004 policies.
1005
1006 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1007 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1009 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1011 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1014 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1015 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1017 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1018
1019config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1020 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1021 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1022 default n
1023 ---help---
1024 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1025 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1026
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1030 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1031 default n
1032 help
1033 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1034 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1035 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1036 entries.
1037
1038 If unsure, say N here.
1039
8dd2a82c 1040menuconfig NAMESPACES
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1042 default !EXPERT
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1044 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1045 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1046 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1047 different namespaces.
1048
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1050
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1052 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1053 default y
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1054 help
1055 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1056 uname() system call
1057
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1059 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1060 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1061 default y
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1063 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1064 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1065
aee16ce7 1066config USER_NS
19c92399 1067 bool "User namespace"
e1c972b6 1068 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
5673a94c 1069 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
e1c972b6 1070
5673a94c 1071 default n
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1073 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1074 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1076 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1077 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1078 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1079 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1080 use.
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1083
74bd59bb 1084config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1085 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1086 default y
74bd59bb 1087 help
12d2b8f9 1088 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1089 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1091
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1093 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1094 depends on NET
17a6d441 1095 default y
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1097 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1098 of the network stack.
1099
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1101
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1103 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1104 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1105 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1106 # the user namespace.
1107 bool
1108 default y
1109
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1114 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
e1c972b6 1115 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
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1117 help
1118 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1119 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1120
1121 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
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1124 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1125 select EVENTFD
1126 select CGROUPS
1127 select CGROUP_SCHED
1128 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1129 help
1130 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1131 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1132 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1133 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1134 upon task session.
1135
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1137 bool
1138
1139config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1140 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1142 default n
1143 help
1144 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1145 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1146 /sys/block/.
1147
1148 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1149 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1150
1151 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1152 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1153 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1154
1155 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1156 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1157 option enabled.
1158
1159 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1160 need to say Y here.
1161
1162config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1163 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1165 depends on SYSFS
1166 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1167 help
1168 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1169
1170 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1171 option.
1172
1173 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1174 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1175 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1176
1177config RELAY
1178 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1179 help
1180 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1181 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1182 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1183 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1184 user space.
1185
1186 If unsure, say N.
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1189 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1190 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1191 help
1192 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1193 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1194 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1195 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1196 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1197
1198 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1199 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1200 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1201
1202 If unsure say Y.
1203
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1205
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1207
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1209
c45b4f1f 1210config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1211 bool "Optimize for size"
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1213 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1214 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1215
3a55fb0d 1216 If unsure, say N.
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1219 bool
1220
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1222 bool
1223
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1225 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1227 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1229 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1230 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1231 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1232 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1233
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1235 bool
1236
ae81f9e3 1237config UID16
6a108a14 1238 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
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1241 help
1242 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1243
b89a8171 1244config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1245 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1246 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1247 default n
b89a8171 1248 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1249 ---help---
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1251 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1252 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1253 information.
b89a8171 1254
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1255 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1256 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1257 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1258
c736de60 1259 If unsure say N here.
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1261config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1262 bool
1263 help
1264 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1265
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1266config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1267 bool
1268 help
1269 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1270 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1271 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1272
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1273config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1274 bool
1275 help
1276 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1277 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1278 the unaligned access emulation.
1279 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1280
1da177e4 1281config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1282 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1283 default y
1284 help
1285 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1286 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1287 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1288
1289config KALLSYMS_ALL
1290 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1291 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1292 help
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1293 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1294 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1295 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1296 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1297 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1298
1299 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1300 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1301 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1302 something like this).
1303
1304 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
d59745ce 1305
712f47ce 1306config HOTPLUG
45f035ab 1307 def_bool y
712f47ce 1308
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1309config PRINTK
1310 default y
6a108a14 1311 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1312 select IRQ_WORK
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1313 help
1314 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1315 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1316 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1317 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1318 strongly discouraged.
1319
c8538a7a 1320config BUG
6a108a14 1321 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1322 default y
1323 help
1324 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1325 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1326 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1327 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1328 Just say Y.
1329
708e9a79 1330config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1331 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1332 default y
6a108a14 1333 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1334 help
1335 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1336
8761f1ab 1337
e5e1d3cb 1338config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1339 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1340 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1341 select I8253_LOCK
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1342 default y
1343 help
1344 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1345 support, saving some memory.
1346
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1347config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1348 bool
1349
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1350config BASE_FULL
1351 default y
6a108a14 1352 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1353 help
1354 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1355 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1356 but may reduce performance.
1357
1358config FUTEX
6a108a14 1359 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1360 default y
23f78d4a 1361 select RT_MUTEXES
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1362 help
1363 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1364 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1365 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1366
1367config EPOLL
6a108a14 1368 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1369 default y
448e3cee 1370 select ANON_INODES
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1371 help
1372 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1373 support for epoll family of system calls.
1374
fba2afaa 1375config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1376 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1377 select ANON_INODES
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1378 default y
1379 help
1380 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1381 on a file descriptor.
1382
1383 If unsure, say Y.
1384
b215e283 1385config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1386 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1387 select ANON_INODES
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1388 default y
1389 help
1390 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1391 events on a file descriptor.
1392
1393 If unsure, say Y.
1394
e1ad7468 1395config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1396 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1397 select ANON_INODES
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1398 default y
1399 help
1400 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1401 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1402
1403 If unsure, say Y.
1404
1da177e4 1405config SHMEM
6a108a14 1406 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1407 default y
1408 depends on MMU
1409 help
1410 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1411 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1412 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1413 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1414 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1415
ebf3f09c 1416config AIO
6a108a14 1417 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1418 default y
1419 help
1420 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1421 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1422 this option saves about 7k.
1423
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1424config EMBEDDED
1425 bool "Embedded system"
1426 select EXPERT
1427 help
1428 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1429 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1430 for configuration.
1431
cdd6c482 1432config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1433 bool
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1434 help
1435 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1437config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1438 bool
1439 help
1440 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1441
57c0c15b 1442menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1443
cdd6c482 1444config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1445 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1446 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1447 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1448 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1449 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1450 help
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1451 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1452 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1453
dd77038d 1454 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1455 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1456
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1457 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1458 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1459 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1460 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1461 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1462 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1463 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1464
57c0c15b 1465 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1466 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1467 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1468 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1469 capabilities on top of those.
1470
1471 Say Y if unsure.
1472
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1473config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1474 default n
1475 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1476 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1477 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1478 help
1479 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1480
1481 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1482 that don't require it.
1483
1484 Say N if unsure.
1485
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1487
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1488config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1489 default y
6a108a14 1490 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1491 help
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1492 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1493 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1494 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1495 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1496
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1497config PCI_QUIRKS
1498 default y
6a108a14 1499 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1500 depends on PCI
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1501 help
1502 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1503 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1504 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1505
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1506config SLUB_DEBUG
1507 default y
6a108a14 1508 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1509 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1510 help
1511 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1512 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1513 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1514 no support for cache validation etc.
1515
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1516config COMPAT_BRK
1517 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1518 default y
1519 help
1520 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1521 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1522 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1523 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1524 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1525
1526 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1527
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1528choice
1529 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1530 default SLUB
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1531 help
1532 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1533
1534config SLAB
1535 bool "SLAB"
1536 help
1537 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1538 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1539 per cpu and per node queues.
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1541config SLUB
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1542 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1543 help
1544 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1545 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1546 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1547 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1548 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1549 a slab allocator.
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1550
1551config SLOB
6a108a14 1552 depends on EXPERT
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1553 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1554 help
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1555 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1556 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1557 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1559endchoice
1560
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1561config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1562 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1563 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1564 default n
1565 help
1566 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1567 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1568 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1569 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1570 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1571 then the flag will be ignored.
1572
1573 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1574 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1575
1576 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1577 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1578 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1579 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1580
1581 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1582
125e5645 1583config PROFILING
b309a294 1584 bool "Profiling support"
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1585 help
1586 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1587 by profilers such as OProfile.
1588
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1589#
1590# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1591# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1592#
97e1c18e 1593config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1594 bool
97e1c18e 1595
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1596source "arch/Kconfig"
1597
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1598endmenu # General setup
1599
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1600config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1601 bool
1602 default n
1603
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1604config SLABINFO
1605 bool
1606 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1607 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1608 default y
1609
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1610config RT_MUTEXES
1611 boolean
ae81f9e3 1612
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1613config BASE_SMALL
1614 int
1615 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1616 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1617
66da5733 1618menuconfig MODULES
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1619 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1620 help
1621 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1622 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1623 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1624 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1625 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1626 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1627 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1628 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1629 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1630
1631 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1632 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1633 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1634 this).
1635
1636 If unsure, say Y.
1637
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1638if MODULES
1639
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1640config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1641 bool "Forced module loading"
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1642 default n
1643 help
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1644 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1645 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1646 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1647
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1648config MODULE_UNLOAD
1649 bool "Module unloading"
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1650 help
1651 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1652 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1653 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1654 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1655
1656config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1657 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1658 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1659 help
1660 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1661 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1662 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1663 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1664 If unsure, say N.
1665
1da177e4 1666config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1667 bool "Module versioning support"
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1668 help
1669 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1670 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1671 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1672 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1673 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1674 unsure, say N.
1675
1676config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1677 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1678 help
1679 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1680 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1681 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1682 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1683 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1684 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1685 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1686
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1687config MODULE_SIG
1688 bool "Module signature verification"
1689 depends on MODULES
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1690 select KEYS
1691 select CRYPTO
1692 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1693 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1694 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1695 select ASN1
1696 select OID_REGISTRY
1697 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1698 help
1699 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1700 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1701 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1702
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1703 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1704 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1705 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1706 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1707
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1708config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1709 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1710 depends on MODULE_SIG
1711 help
1712 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1713 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
ea0b6dcf 1714
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1715config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1716 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1717 default y
1718 depends on MODULE_SIG
1719 help
1720 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1721 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1722
1723comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1724 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1725
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1726choice
1727 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1728 depends on MODULE_SIG
1729 help
1730 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1731 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1732 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1733 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1734 the signature on that module.
1735
1736config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1737 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1738 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1739
1740config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1741 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1742 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1743
1744config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1745 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1746 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1747
1748config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1749 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1750 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1751
1752config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1753 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1754 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1755
1756endchoice
1757
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1758config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1759 string
1760 depends on MODULE_SIG
1761 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1762 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1763 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1764 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1765 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1766
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1768
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1769config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1770 bool
1771 help
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1772 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1773 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1774 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1775 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1776 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1777
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1778config STOP_MACHINE
1779 bool
1780 default y
1781 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1782 help
1783 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1784
3a65dfe8 1785source "block/Kconfig"
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1787config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1788 bool
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1790config PADATA
1791 depends on SMP
1792 bool
1793
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1794# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1795# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1796# mappings
1797config BROKEN_RODATA
1798 bool
1799
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1800config ASN1
1801 tristate
1802 help
1803 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1804 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1805 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1806 functions to call on what tags.
1807
6beb0009 1808source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"