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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
ff0cfc66 30menu "General setup"
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31
32config EXPERIMENTAL
33 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
34 ---help---
35 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
36 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
37 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
38 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
39 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
40 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
41 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
42 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
43 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
44 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
45 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
46 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
47 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
48 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
49 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
50 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
51
52 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
53 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
54 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
55
56 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
57 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
58 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
59 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
60 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
61 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
62
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63config BROKEN
64 bool
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65
66config BROKEN_ON_SMP
67 bool
68 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
69 default y
70
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71config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
72 int
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73 default 32 if !UML
74 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 75 help
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76 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
77 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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1da177e4 79
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80config CROSS_COMPILE
81 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
82 help
83 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
84 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
85 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
86 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
87
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88config LOCALVERSION
89 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
90 help
91 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
92 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
93 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
94 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
95 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
96 be a maximum of 64 characters.
97
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98config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
99 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
100 default y
101 help
102 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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103 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
104 top of tree revision.
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105
106 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 107 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 108 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 109 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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111 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
112 by running the command:
113
114 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
115
116 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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118config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
119 bool
120
121config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
128 bool
129
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130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
131 bool
132
30d65dbf 133choice
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134 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
135 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 137 help
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138 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
139 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
140 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
141 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
142 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
143
144 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
145 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
146 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
147 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
148
149 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
150 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
151 size matters less.
152
153 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
154
155config KERNEL_GZIP
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156 bool "Gzip"
157 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
158 help
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159 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
160 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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161
162config KERNEL_BZIP2
163 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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165 help
166 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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167 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
168 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
169 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
170 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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172config KERNEL_LZMA
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173 bool "LZMA"
174 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
175 help
176 The most recent compression algorithm.
177 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
178 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
179 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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181config KERNEL_XZ
182 bool "XZ"
183 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
184 help
185 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
186 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
187 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
188 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
189 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
190 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
191
192 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
193 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
194 and LZO. Compression is slow.
195
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196config KERNEL_LZO
197 bool "LZO"
198 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
199 help
200 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
681b3049 201 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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202 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
203
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204endchoice
205
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206config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
207 string "Default hostname"
208 default "(none)"
209 help
210 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
211 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
212 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
213 system more usable with less configuration.
214
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215config SWAP
216 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 217 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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218 default y
219 help
220 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 221 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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222 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
223 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
224
225config SYSVIPC
226 bool "System V IPC"
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227 ---help---
228 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
229 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
230 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
231 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
232 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
233 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
234 you'll need to say Y here.
235
236 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
237 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
238 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
239
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240config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
241 bool
242 depends on SYSVIPC
243 depends on SYSCTL
244 default y
245
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246config POSIX_MQUEUE
247 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
248 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
249 ---help---
250 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
251 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
252 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
253 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 254 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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255
256 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
257 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
258 operations on message queues.
259
260 If unsure, say Y.
261
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262config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
263 bool
264 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
265 depends on SYSCTL
266 default y
267
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268config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
269 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
270 help
271 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
272 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
273 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
274 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
275 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
276 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
277 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
278 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
279 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
280
281config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
282 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
283 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
284 default n
285 help
286 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
287 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
288 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
289 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
290 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 291 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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293config FHANDLE
294 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
295 select EXPORTFS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
298 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
299 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
300 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
301 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
302 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
303 syscalls.
304
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305config TASKSTATS
306 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on NET
308 default n
309 help
310 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
311 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
312 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
313 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
314 space on task exit.
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
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318config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
319 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 320 depends on TASKSTATS
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321 help
322 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
323 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
324 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
325 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
326
327 Say N if unsure.
328
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329config TASK_XACCT
330 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
331 depends on TASKSTATS
332 help
333 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
334 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
335
336 Say N if unsure.
337
338config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
339 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
340 depends on TASK_XACCT
341 help
342 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
343 task has caused.
344
345 Say N if unsure.
346
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347config AUDIT
348 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 349 depends on NET
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350 help
351 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
352 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
353 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
354 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
355
356config AUDITSYSCALL
357 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
29ef73b7 358 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM)
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359 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
360 help
361 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
362 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
67640b60 363 such as SELinux.
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365config AUDIT_WATCH
366 def_bool y
367 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
368 select FSNOTIFY
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370config AUDIT_TREE
371 def_bool y
63c882a0 372 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28a3a7eb 373 select FSNOTIFY
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375config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
376 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
377 depends on AUDIT
378 help
f429ee3b 379 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
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380 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
381 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
382 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
383 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
384 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
385 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
386 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
387 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
388
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389source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
390
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391menu "RCU Subsystem"
392
393choice
394 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 395 default TREE_RCU
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397config TREE_RCU
398 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 399 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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400 help
401 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
402 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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403 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
404 smaller systems.
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f41d911f 406config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 407 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
8008e129 408 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
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409 help
410 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
411 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
412 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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413 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
414 smaller systems.
f41d911f 415
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416config TINY_RCU
417 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 418 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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419 help
420 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
421 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
422 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
423 memory footprint of RCU.
424
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425config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
426 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 427 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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428 help
429 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
430 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
431 memory footprint of RCU.
432
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434
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435config PREEMPT_RCU
436 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
437 help
438 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
439 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
440
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441config RCU_FANOUT
442 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
443 range 2 64 if 64BIT
444 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 445 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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446 default 64 if 64BIT
447 default 32 if !64BIT
448 help
449 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
450 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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451 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
452 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
453 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
454 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
455 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
456 code paths on small(er) systems.
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458 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
459 Take the default if unsure.
460
461config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
462 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 463 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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464 default n
465 help
466 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
467 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
468 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
469 strong NUMA behavior.
470
471 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
472
473 Say N if unsure.
474
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475config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
476 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 477 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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478 default n
479 help
480 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
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481 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
482 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
483 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
484 large numbers of CPUs.
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485
486 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
487 if you have relatively few CPUs.
488
489 Say N if you are unsure.
490
c903ff83 491config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 492 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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494 help
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495 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
496 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
497 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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499config RCU_BOOST
500 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 501 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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502 default n
503 help
504 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
505 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
506 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
507 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
508
509 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
510 Say N here if you are unsure.
511
512config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
513 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
514 range 1 99
515 depends on RCU_BOOST
516 default 1
517 help
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518 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
519 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
520 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
521 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
522 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
523 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
524 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
525 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
526
527 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
528 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
529 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
530 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
531 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
532 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
533 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
534 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
535 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
536 set to priority 6 or higher.
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538 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
539
540config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
541 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
542 range 0 3000
543 depends on RCU_BOOST
544 default 500
545 help
546 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
547 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
548 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
549 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
550
551 Accept the default if unsure.
552
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554
1da177e4 555config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 556 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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557 ---help---
558 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
559 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
560 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
561 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
562 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
563 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
564 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
565 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
566
567config IKCONFIG_PROC
568 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
569 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
570 ---help---
571 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
572 through /proc/config.gz.
573
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574config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
575 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
576 range 12 21
f17a32e9 577 default 17
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578 help
579 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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580 Examples:
581 17 => 128 KB
582 16 => 64 KB
583 15 => 32 KB
584 14 => 16 KB
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585 13 => 8 KB
586 12 => 4 KB
587
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589# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
590#
591config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
592 bool
593
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594menuconfig CGROUPS
595 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 596 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 597 help
23964d2d 598 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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599 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
600 controls or device isolation.
601 See
5cdc38f9 602 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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603 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
604 and resource control)
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605
606 Say N if unsure.
607
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608if CGROUPS
609
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610config CGROUP_DEBUG
611 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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612 default n
613 help
614 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
615 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 616 framework.
5cdc38f9 617
23964d2d 618 Say N if unsure.
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5cdc38f9 620config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 621 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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623 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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624 cgroup.
625
626config CGROUP_DEVICE
627 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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628 help
629 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
630 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
631
632config CPUSETS
633 bool "Cpuset support"
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635 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
636 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
637 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
638 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
639
640 Say N if unsure.
641
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642config PROC_PID_CPUSET
643 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
644 depends on CPUSETS
645 default y
646
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647config CGROUP_CPUACCT
648 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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649 help
650 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 651 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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653config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
654 bool "Resource counters"
655 help
656 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 657 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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659config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
660 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 661 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 662 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 663 help
84ad6d70 664 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 665 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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666
667 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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668 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
669 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
670 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
671 at boot.
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673 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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674 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
675 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
676 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 677 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
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680 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
681
c077719b 682config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
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683 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
684 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
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686 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
687 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
688 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
689 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
690 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
691 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
692 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
693 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
694 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
695 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 696 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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697 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
698 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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699config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
700 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
701 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
702 default y
703 help
704 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
705 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 706 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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707 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
708 parameter should have this option unselected.
709 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
710 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 711 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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712config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
713 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
714 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL
715 default n
716 help
717 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
718 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
719 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
720 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
721 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
722 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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725 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
726 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
727 help
728 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 729 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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731
732 Say N if unsure.
733
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735 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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736 default n
737 help
738 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
739 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
740 tasks.
741
742if CGROUP_SCHED
743config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
744 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
745 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
746 default CGROUP_SCHED
747
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749 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
750 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
751 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
752 default n
753 help
754 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
755 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
756 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
757 restriction.
758 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
759
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760config RT_GROUP_SCHED
761 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
762 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
763 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
764 default n
765 help
766 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 767 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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768 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
769 realtime bandwidth for them.
770 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
771
772endif #CGROUP_SCHED
773
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775 tristate "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 776 depends on BLOCK
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777 default n
778 ---help---
779 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
780 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
781 policies.
782
783 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
784 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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785 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
786 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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787
788 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 789 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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790 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
791 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 792 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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793
794 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
795
796config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
797 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
798 depends on BLK_CGROUP
799 default n
800 ---help---
801 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
802 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
803
23964d2d 804endif # CGROUPS
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806config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
807 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
808 default n
809 help
810 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
811 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
812 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
813 entries.
814
815 If unsure, say N here.
816
8dd2a82c 817menuconfig NAMESPACES
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819 default !EXPERT
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820 help
821 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
822 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
823 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
824 different namespaces.
825
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827
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828config UTS_NS
829 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 830 default y
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831 help
832 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
833 uname() system call
834
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836 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 837 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 838 default y
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840 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 841 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 842
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843config USER_NS
844 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8dd2a82c 845 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
17a6d441 846 default y
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847 help
848 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
849 to provide different user info for different servers.
850 If unsure, say N.
851
74bd59bb 852config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 853 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 854 default y
74bd59bb 855 help
12d2b8f9 856 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 857 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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858 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
859
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860config NET_NS
861 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 862 depends on NET
17a6d441 863 default y
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864 help
865 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
866 of the network stack.
867
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869
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870config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
871 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
872 select EVENTFD
873 select CGROUPS
874 select CGROUP_SCHED
875 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
876 help
877 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
878 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
879 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
880 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
881 upon task session.
882
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884 bool
885
886config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 887 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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888 depends on SYSFS
889 default n
890 help
891 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
892 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
893 /sys/block/.
894
895 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
896 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
897
898 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
899 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
900 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
901
902 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
903 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
904 option enabled.
905
906 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
907 need to say Y here.
908
909config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 910 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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912 depends on SYSFS
913 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
914 help
915 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
916
917 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
918 option.
919
920 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
921 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
922 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
923
924config RELAY
925 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
926 help
927 This option enables support for relay interface support in
928 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
929 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
930 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
931 user space.
932
933 If unsure, say N.
934
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936 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
937 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
938 help
939 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
940 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
941 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
942 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
943 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
944
945 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
946 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
947 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
948
949 If unsure say Y.
950
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951if BLK_DEV_INITRD
952
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954
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955endif
956
c45b4f1f 957config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 958 bool "Optimize for size"
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959 help
960 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
961 resulting in a smaller kernel.
962
775a7229 963 If unsure, say Y.
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966 bool
967
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969 bool
970
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972 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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973 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
974 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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975 help
976 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
977 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
978 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
979 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
980
ae81f9e3 981config UID16
6a108a14 982 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
09337f50 983 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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984 default y
985 help
986 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
987
b89a8171 988config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 989 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 990 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 991 default n
b89a8171 992 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 993 ---help---
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994 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
995 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
996 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
997 information.
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999 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1000 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1001 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1002
c736de60 1003 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1004
1da177e4 1005config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1006 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1007 default y
1008 help
1009 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1010 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1011 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1012
1013config KALLSYMS_ALL
1014 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1015 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1016 help
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1018 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1019 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1020 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1021 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1022
1023 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1024 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1025 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1026 something like this).
1027
1028 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 1030config HOTPLUG
6a108a14 1031 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
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1032 default y
1033 help
1034 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
1035 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
1036 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
1037 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
1038
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1040 default y
6a108a14 1041 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
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1042 help
1043 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1044 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1045 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1046 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1047 strongly discouraged.
1048
c8538a7a 1049config BUG
6a108a14 1050 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1051 default y
1052 help
1053 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1054 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1055 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1056 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1057 Just say Y.
1058
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1060 default y
6a108a14 1061 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1062 help
1063 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1064
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e5e1d3cb 1066config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1067 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1068 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1069 select I8253_LOCK
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1070 default y
1071 help
1072 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1073 support, saving some memory.
1074
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1075config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1076 bool
1077
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1078config BASE_FULL
1079 default y
6a108a14 1080 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1081 help
1082 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1083 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1084 but may reduce performance.
1085
1086config FUTEX
6a108a14 1087 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1088 default y
23f78d4a 1089 select RT_MUTEXES
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1090 help
1091 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1092 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1093 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1094
1095config EPOLL
6a108a14 1096 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1097 default y
448e3cee 1098 select ANON_INODES
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1099 help
1100 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1101 support for epoll family of system calls.
1102
fba2afaa 1103config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1104 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1105 select ANON_INODES
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1107 help
1108 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1109 on a file descriptor.
1110
1111 If unsure, say Y.
1112
b215e283 1113config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1114 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1115 select ANON_INODES
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1117 help
1118 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1119 events on a file descriptor.
1120
1121 If unsure, say Y.
1122
e1ad7468 1123config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1124 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1125 select ANON_INODES
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1126 default y
1127 help
1128 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1129 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1130
1131 If unsure, say Y.
1132
1da177e4 1133config SHMEM
6a108a14 1134 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1135 default y
1136 depends on MMU
1137 help
1138 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1139 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1140 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1141 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1142 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1143
ebf3f09c 1144config AIO
6a108a14 1145 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1147 help
1148 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1149 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1150 this option saves about 7k.
1151
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1153 bool "Embedded system"
1154 select EXPERT
1155 help
1156 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1157 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1158 for configuration.
1159
cdd6c482 1160config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1161 bool
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1163 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1166 bool
1167 help
1168 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1169
57c0c15b 1170menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1172config PERF_EVENTS
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1173 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1174 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
cdd6c482 1175 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1176 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1177 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1178 help
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1179 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1180 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1181
dd77038d 1182 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1183 use of generic tracepoints.
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1186 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1188 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1189 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1190 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1191 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1192
57c0c15b 1193 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1194 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1195 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1197 capabilities on top of those.
1198
1199 Say Y if unsure.
1200
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1202 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1203 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1204 help
1205 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1206 config option - please see that one for details.
1207
1208 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1209 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1210
1211 Say N if unsure.
1212
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1214 default n
1215 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1216 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1217 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1218 help
1219 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1220
1221 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1222 that don't require it.
1223
1224 Say N if unsure.
1225
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1229 default y
6a108a14 1230 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1231 help
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1232 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1233 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1234 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1235 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1236
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1238 default y
6a108a14 1239 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1240 depends on PCI
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1242 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1243 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1244 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1245
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1247 default y
6a108a14 1248 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1249 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1251 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1252 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1253 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1254 no support for cache validation etc.
1255
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1257 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1258 default y
1259 help
1260 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1261 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1262 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1263 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1265
1266 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1267
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1269 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1270 default SLUB
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1271 help
1272 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1273
1274config SLAB
1275 bool "SLAB"
1276 help
1277 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1278 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1279 per cpu and per node queues.
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1281config SLUB
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1282 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1283 help
1284 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1285 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1286 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1287 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1289 a slab allocator.
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1291config SLOB
6a108a14 1292 depends on EXPERT
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1293 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1294 help
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1295 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1296 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1297 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1301config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1302 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1303 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1304 default n
1305 help
1306 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1307 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1308 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1309 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1310 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1311 then the flag will be ignored.
1312
1313 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1314 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1315
1316 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1317 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1318 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1319 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1320
1321 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1322
125e5645 1323config PROFILING
b309a294 1324 bool "Profiling support"
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1326 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1327 by profilers such as OProfile.
1328
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1330# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1331# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1332#
97e1c18e 1333config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1334 bool
97e1c18e 1335
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1337
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1339
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1340config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1341 bool
1342 default n
1343
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1344config SLABINFO
1345 bool
1346 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1347 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1348 default y
1349
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1351 boolean
ae81f9e3 1352
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1353config BASE_SMALL
1354 int
1355 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1356 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1357
66da5733 1358menuconfig MODULES
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1359 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1360 help
1361 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1362 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1363 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1364 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1365 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1366 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1367 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1368 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1369 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1370
1371 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1372 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1373 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1374 this).
1375
1376 If unsure, say Y.
1377
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1379
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1380config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1381 bool "Forced module loading"
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1382 default n
1383 help
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1385 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1386 is usually a really bad idea.
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1389 bool "Module unloading"
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1390 help
1391 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1392 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1394 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1396config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1397 bool "Forced module unloading"
1398 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1399 help
1400 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1401 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1402 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1403 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1404 If unsure, say N.
1405
1da177e4 1406config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1407 bool "Module versioning support"
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1408 help
1409 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1410 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1411 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1412 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1413 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1414 unsure, say N.
1415
1416config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1417 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1419 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1420 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1421 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1422 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1423 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1424 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1425 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1426
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1430 bool
1431 help
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1432 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1433 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1435 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1436 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1438config STOP_MACHINE
1439 bool
1440 default y
1441 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1442 help
1443 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1445source "block/Kconfig"
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1447config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1448 bool
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1451 depends on SMP
1452 bool
1453
6beb0009 1454source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"