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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
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29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30 bool
31 help
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35
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36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
38
ff0cfc66 39menu "General setup"
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41config BROKEN
42 bool
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43
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
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49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
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51 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 53 help
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54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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58config CROSS_COMPILE
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
60 help
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
65
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66config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 68 depends on !UML
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69 default n
70 help
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
76
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
80
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81config LOCALVERSION
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
83 help
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
90
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91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
ac3339ba 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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95 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
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99
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
107
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
109
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
30d65dbf 130choice
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131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 134 help
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135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
140
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
145
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
148 size matters less.
149
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
151
152config KERNEL_GZIP
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153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
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156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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169config KERNEL_LZMA
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170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
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173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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177config KERNEL_XZ
178 bool "XZ"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
180 help
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
187
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
191
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192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
0a4dd35c 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
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200config KERNEL_LZ4
201 bool "LZ4"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203 help
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
207
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
210 faster than LZO.
211
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212endchoice
213
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214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
216 default "(none)"
217 help
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
222
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223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
232
233config SYSVIPC
234 bool "System V IPC"
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235 ---help---
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
243
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
247
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248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
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254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 256 depends on NET
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257 ---help---
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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263
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
267
268 If unsure, say Y.
269
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270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
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276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
278 depends on MMU
279 default y
280 help
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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284 See the man page for more details.
285
391dc69c 286config FHANDLE
f76be617 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 288 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 289 default y
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290 help
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
297 syscalls.
298
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299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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302 help
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
308
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309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
311 depends on NET
312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
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318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
391dc69c 321config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 322 def_bool y
7a017721 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
329
330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
333 select FSNOTIFY
334
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335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
337
338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
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340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
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343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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347
348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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352 help
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
355 granularity.
356
357 If unsure, say Y.
358
abf917cd 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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363 help
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
370 systems.
371
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372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
378 help
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
383 overhead.
384
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
387
388 If unsure, say N.
389
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391
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392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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395 help
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
400
401 If in doubt, say N here.
402
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403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 405 depends on MULTIUSER
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406 help
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
416
417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
420 default n
421 help
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 428
c757249a 429config TASKSTATS
19c92399 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 431 depends on NET
2813893f 432 depends on MULTIUSER
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433 default n
434 help
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
439 space on task exit.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
ca74e92b 443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 445 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 446 select SCHED_INFO
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447 help
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
18f705f4 455config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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457 depends on TASKSTATS
458 help
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
464config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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466 depends on TASK_XACCT
467 help
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
469 task has caused.
470
471 Say N if unsure.
472
391dc69c 473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 474
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475menu "RCU Subsystem"
476
c903ff83 477config TREE_RCU
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478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
c903ff83 485
28f6569a 486config PREEMPT_RCU
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487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
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489 help
490 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
491 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
492 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
f41d911f 495
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496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
9b1d82fa 498config TINY_RCU
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499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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501 help
502 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
503 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
504 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
505 memory footprint of RCU.
506
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507config RCU_EXPERT
508 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
509 default n
510 help
511 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
512 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
513 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
514 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
515 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
516 obscure RCU options to be set up.
517
518 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
519
520 Say N if you are unsure.
521
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522config SRCU
523 bool
d160a727 524 default y
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525 help
526 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
527 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
528 sections.
529
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530config CLASSIC_SRCU
531 bool "Use v4.11 classic SRCU implementation"
532 default n
533 depends on RCU_EXPERT && SRCU
534 help
535 This option selects the traditional well-tested classic SRCU
536 implementation from v4.11, as might be desired for enterprise
537 Linux distributions. Without this option, the shiny new
538 Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU implementations are used instead.
539 At some point, it is hoped that Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU
540 will accumulate enough test time and confidence to allow
541 Classic SRCU to be dropped entirely.
542
543 Say Y if you need a rock-solid SRCU.
544
545 Say N if you would like help test Tree SRCU.
546
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547config TINY_SRCU
548 bool
677df9d4 549 default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
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550 help
551 This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
552
553config TREE_SRCU
554 bool
677df9d4 555 default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
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556 help
557 This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
558
8315f422 559config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 560 bool
8315f422 561 default n
83fe27ea 562 select SRCU
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563 help
564 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
565 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
566 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
567
6bfc09e2 568config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 569 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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570 help
571 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
572 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
573 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
574 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
575
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576config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
577 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_SRCU || TREE_SRCU )
578
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579config CONTEXT_TRACKING
580 bool
581
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582config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
583 bool "Force context tracking"
584 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 585 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 586 help
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587 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
588 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
589 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
590 dynticks working.
591
592 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
593 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
594 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
595 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
596 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
597 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
598 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
599 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
600 CPUs in the system.
601
99c8b1ea 602 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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603 architecture backend for the context tracking.
604
605 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
606 don't want in production.
607
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609config RCU_FANOUT
610 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
611 range 2 64 if 64BIT
612 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 613 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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614 default 64 if 64BIT
615 default 32 if !64BIT
616 help
617 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
618 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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619 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
620 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
621 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
622 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
623 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
624 code paths on small(er) systems.
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626 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
627 Take the default if unsure.
628
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629config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
630 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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631 range 2 64 if 64BIT
632 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 633 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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634 default 16
635 help
636 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
637 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
638 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
639 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
640 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
641 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
642 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
643 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
644 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
645 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
646 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
647 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
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649 fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
650 lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
651 you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
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653 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
654
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655 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
656 please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
657 kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
658 structure's locks.
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660 Take the default if unsure.
661
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663 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 664 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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666 help
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668 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
669 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
670 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
671 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
672 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
673 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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676 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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678 Say N if you are unsure.
679
c903ff83 680config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 681 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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683 help
f41d911f 684 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 685 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 686 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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689 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 690 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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692 help
693 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
694 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
695 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
696 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
697
698 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
699 Say N here if you are unsure.
700
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702 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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704 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
705 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
706 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 707 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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710 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
711 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
712 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
713 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
714 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
715 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
716 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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718
719 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
720 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
721 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 722 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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724 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
725 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
726 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 727 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 728 set to priority 6 or higher.
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730 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
731
732config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
733 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
734 range 0 3000
735 depends on RCU_BOOST
736 default 500
737 help
738 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
739 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
740 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
741 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
742
743 Accept the default if unsure.
744
3fbfbf7a 745config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 746 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 747 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 748 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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750 help
751 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
752 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
753 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
754 asymmetric multiprocessors.
755
756 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
757 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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758 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
759 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
760 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
761 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
762 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
763 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
764 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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768
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770 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
771 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 772 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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775 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
776 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
777 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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779config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
780 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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782 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
783 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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785 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
786 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
787
788 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
789 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
790 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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792config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
793 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
911af505 794 help
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796 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
797 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
798 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
799 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
800 context.
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802 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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804 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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806config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
807 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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809 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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811 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
812 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
813 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
814 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
815 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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817 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
818 or energy-efficiency reasons.
819
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823
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824config BUILD_BIN2C
825 bool
826 default n
827
1da177e4 828config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 829 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 830 select BUILD_BIN2C
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831 ---help---
832 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
833 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
834 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
835 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
836 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
837 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
838 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
839 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
840
841config IKCONFIG_PROC
842 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
843 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
844 ---help---
845 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
846 through /proc/config.gz.
847
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849 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 850 range 12 25
f17a32e9 851 default 17
361e9dfb 852 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 853 help
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855 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
856 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
857 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
858
f17a32e9 859 Examples:
23b2899f 860 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 861 16 => 64 KB
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863 14 => 16 KB
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865 12 => 4 KB
866
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868 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 869 depends on SMP
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870 range 0 21
871 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
872 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 873 depends on PRINTK
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875 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
876 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
877 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
878 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
879 e.g. backtraces.
880
881 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
882 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
883 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
884 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
885 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
886 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
887
888 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
889 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
890
891 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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893 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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895 Examples shift values and their meaning:
896 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
897 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
898 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
899 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
900 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
901 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
902
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904 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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906 default 13
f92bac3b 907 depends on PRINTK
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909 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
910 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
911 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
912 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
913 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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917 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
918
919 Examples:
920 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
921 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
922 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
923 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
924 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
925 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
926
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928# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
929#
930config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
931 bool
932
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934 bool
935
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937# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
938# balancing logic:
939#
940config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
941 bool
942
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944# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
945# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
946# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
947# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
948# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
949# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
950config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
951 bool
952
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954# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
955#
956config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
957 bool
958
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960# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
961#
962config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
963 bool
964
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966 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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968 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
969 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
970 help
971 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
972 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 973 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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975 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
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978 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
979 default y
980 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
981 help
982 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
983 machine.
984
23964d2d 985menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 986 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 987 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 988 help
23964d2d 989 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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990 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
991 controls or device isolation.
992 See
5cdc38f9 993 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 994 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 995 and resource control)
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997 Say N if unsure.
998
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1000
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1002 bool
1003
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a0166ec4 1005 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 1006 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 1007 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 1008 help
a0166ec4 1009 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 1010
c255a458 1011config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 1012 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 1013 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1015 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
1016
c255a458 1017config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 1018 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 1019 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1020 default y
1021 help
1022 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1023 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1024 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1025 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1027 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1028 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1029 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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1032 bool "IO controller"
1033 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 1034 default n
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1036 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1037 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1038 policies.
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1041 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1042 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1043 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1046 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1047 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1048 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1049 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1050
9991a9c8 1051 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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1053config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1054 bool "IO controller debugging"
1055 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1056 default n
1057 ---help---
1058 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1059 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1060
1061config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1062 bool
1063 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1064 default y
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a0166ec4 1067 bool "CPU controller"
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1069 help
1070 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1071 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1072 tasks.
1073
1074if CGROUP_SCHED
1075config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1076 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1077 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1078 default CGROUP_SCHED
1079
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1081 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1083 default n
1084 help
1085 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1086 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1087 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1088 restriction.
1089 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1090
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1092 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1094 default n
1095 help
1096 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1097 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1099 realtime bandwidth for them.
1100 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1101
1102endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1103
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1105 bool "PIDs controller"
1106 help
1107 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1108 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1109 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1110 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1111 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1112 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1113 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1115 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1116 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1118 attach to a cgroup.
1119
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1121 bool "RDMA controller"
1122 help
1123 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1124 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1125 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1126 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1127 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1128 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1129
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1131 bool "Freezer controller"
1132 help
1133 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1134 cgroup.
1135
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1137 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1138
1139 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1140
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1142 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1143 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1144 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1145 default n
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1147 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1148 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1149 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1150 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1151 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1152 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1153 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1154 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1155 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 1156
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1158 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 1159 depends on SMP
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1161 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1162 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1163 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1164 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1165
6bf024e6 1166 Say N if unsure.
afc24d49 1167
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1169 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1170 depends on CPUSETS
1171 default y
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1174 bool "Device controller"
1175 help
1176 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1177 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1178
1179config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1180 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1181 help
1182 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1183 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1184
1185config CGROUP_PERF
1186 bool "Perf controller"
1187 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1188 help
1189 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1190 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1191 designated cpu.
1192
1193 Say N if unsure.
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1196 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1200 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1201 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1202
1203 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1204 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1205 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1206 inet sockets.
1207
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1209 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1210 default n
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1211 help
1212 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1213 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1214
6bf024e6 1215 Say N.
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1217config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
1218 bool
1219 default n
1220
23964d2d 1221endif # CGROUPS
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1223config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1224 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1225 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1226 default n
1227 help
1228 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1229 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1230 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1231 entries.
1232
1233 If unsure, say N here.
1234
8dd2a82c 1235menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1236 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1237 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1238 default !EXPERT
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1239 help
1240 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1241 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1242 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1243 different namespaces.
1244
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1245if NAMESPACES
1246
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1247config UTS_NS
1248 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1249 default y
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1250 help
1251 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1252 uname() system call
1253
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1254config IPC_NS
1255 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1256 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1257 default y
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1258 help
1259 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1260 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1261
aee16ce7 1262config USER_NS
19c92399 1263 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1264 default n
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1265 help
1266 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1267 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1268
1269 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1270 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1271 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1272 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1274 If unsure, say N.
1275
74bd59bb 1276config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1277 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1278 default y
74bd59bb 1279 help
12d2b8f9 1280 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1281 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1282 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1283
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1284config NET_NS
1285 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1286 depends on NET
17a6d441 1287 default y
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1288 help
1289 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1290 of the network stack.
1291
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1292endif # NAMESPACES
1293
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1294config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1295 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1296 select CGROUPS
1297 select CGROUP_SCHED
1298 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1299 help
1300 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1301 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1302 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1303 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1304 upon task session.
1305
7af37bec 1306config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1307 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1308 depends on SYSFS
1309 default n
1310 help
1311 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1312 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1313 /sys/block/.
1314
1315 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1316 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1317
1318 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1319 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1320 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1321
1322 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1323 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1324 option enabled.
1325
1326 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1327 need to say Y here.
1328
1329config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1330 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1331 default n
1332 depends on SYSFS
1333 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1334 help
1335 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1336
1337 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1338 option.
1339
1340 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1341 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1342 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1343
1344config RELAY
1345 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1346 select IRQ_WORK
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1347 help
1348 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1349 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1350 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1351 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1352 user space.
1353
1354 If unsure, say N.
1355
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1356config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1357 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1358 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1359 help
1360 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1361 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1362 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1363 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1364 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1365
1366 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1367 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1368 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1369
1370 If unsure say Y.
1371
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1372if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1373
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1374source "usr/Kconfig"
1375
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1376endif
1377
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1378choice
1379 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1380 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1381
1382config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1383 bool "Optimize for performance"
1384 help
1385 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1386 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1387 helpful compile-time warnings.
1388
c45b4f1f 1389config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1390 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1391 help
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1392 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1393 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1394
3a55fb0d 1395 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1396
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1398
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1399config SYSCTL
1400 bool
1401
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1402config ANON_INODES
1403 bool
1404
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1406 bool
1407
1408config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1409 bool
1410 help
1411 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1412
1413config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1414 bool
1415 help
1416 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1417 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1418 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1419
1420config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1421 bool
1422 help
1423 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1424 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1425 the unaligned access emulation.
1426 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1427
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1428config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1429 bool
1430
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1431# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1432config BPF
1433 bool
1434
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1435menuconfig EXPERT
1436 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1437 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1438 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1439 help
1440 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1441 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1442 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1443 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1444
ae81f9e3 1445config UID16
6a108a14 1446 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1447 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1448 default y
1449 help
1450 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1451
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1452config MULTIUSER
1453 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1454 default y
1455 help
1456 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1457 capabilities.
1458
1459 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1460 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1461 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1462 setgid, and capset.
1463
1464 If unsure, say Y here.
1465
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1466config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1467 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1468 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1469 ---help---
1470 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1471 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1472 architectures.
1473
1474 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1475
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1476config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1477 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1478 default y
1479 ---help---
1480 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1481 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1482 compatibility with some systems.
1483
1484 If unsure say Y here.
1485
b89a8171 1486config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1487 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1488 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1489 default n
b89a8171 1490 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1491 ---help---
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1492 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1493 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1494 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1495 information.
b89a8171 1496
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1497 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1498 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1499 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1500
c736de60 1501 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1502
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1503config POSIX_TIMERS
1504 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1505 default y
1506 help
1507 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1508 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1509 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1510
1511 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1512 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1513 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1514 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1515 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1516 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1517
1518 If unsure say y.
1519
1da177e4 1520config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1521 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1522 default y
1523 help
1524 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1525 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1526 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1527
1528config KALLSYMS_ALL
1529 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1530 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1531 help
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1532 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1533 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1534 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1535 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1536 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1537
1538 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1539 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1540 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1541 something like this).
1542
1543 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1545config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1546 bool
076501ff 1547 depends on KALLSYMS
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1548 default X86_64 && SMP
1549
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1550config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1551 bool
1552 depends on KALLSYMS
1553 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1554 help
1555 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1556 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1557 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1558 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1559 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1560 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1561 address encountered in the image.
1562
1563 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1564 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1565 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1566 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1567
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1568config PRINTK
1569 default y
6a108a14 1570 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1571 select IRQ_WORK
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1572 help
1573 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1574 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1575 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1576 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1577 strongly discouraged.
1578
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1579config PRINTK_NMI
1580 def_bool y
1581 depends on PRINTK
1582 depends on HAVE_NMI
1583
c8538a7a 1584config BUG
6a108a14 1585 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1586 default y
1587 help
1588 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1589 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1590 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1591 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1592 Just say Y.
1593
708e9a79 1594config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1595 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1596 default y
6a108a14 1597 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1598 help
1599 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1600
8761f1ab 1601
e5e1d3cb 1602config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1603 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1604 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1605 select I8253_LOCK
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1606 default y
1607 help
1608 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1609 support, saving some memory.
1610
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1611config BASE_FULL
1612 default y
6a108a14 1613 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1614 help
1615 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1616 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1617 but may reduce performance.
1618
1619config FUTEX
6a108a14 1620 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1621 default y
23f78d4a 1622 select RT_MUTEXES
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1623 help
1624 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1625 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1626 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1627
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1628config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1629 bool
62b4d204 1630 depends on FUTEX
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1631 help
1632 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1633 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1634 checks.
1635
1da177e4 1636config EPOLL
6a108a14 1637 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1638 default y
448e3cee 1639 select ANON_INODES
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1640 help
1641 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1642 support for epoll family of system calls.
1643
fba2afaa 1644config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1645 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1646 select ANON_INODES
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1647 default y
1648 help
1649 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1650 on a file descriptor.
1651
1652 If unsure, say Y.
1653
b215e283 1654config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1655 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1656 select ANON_INODES
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1657 default y
1658 help
1659 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1660 events on a file descriptor.
1661
1662 If unsure, say Y.
1663
e1ad7468 1664config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1665 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1666 select ANON_INODES
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1667 default y
1668 help
1669 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1670 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1671
1672 If unsure, say Y.
1673
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1675config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1676 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1677 select ANON_INODES
1678 select BPF
1679 default n
1680 help
1681 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1682 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1683
1da177e4 1684config SHMEM
6a108a14 1685 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1686 default y
1687 depends on MMU
1688 help
1689 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1690 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1691 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1692 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1693 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1694
ebf3f09c 1695config AIO
6a108a14 1696 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1697 default y
1698 help
1699 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1700 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1701 this option saves about 7k.
1702
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1703config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1704 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1705 default y
1706 help
1707 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1708 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1709 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1710 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1711 space.
1712
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1713config USERFAULTFD
1714 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1715 select ANON_INODES
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1716 depends on MMU
1717 help
1718 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1719 handle page faults in userland.
1720
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1721config PCI_QUIRKS
1722 default y
1723 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1724 depends on PCI
1725 help
1726 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1727 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1728 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1729
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1730config MEMBARRIER
1731 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1732 default y
1733 help
1734 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1735 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1736 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1737 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1738 compiler barrier.
1739
1740 If unsure, say Y.
1741
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1743 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1744 option allnoconfig_y
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1745 select EXPERT
1746 help
1747 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1748 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1749 for configuration.
1750
cdd6c482 1751config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1752 bool
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1753 help
1754 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1755
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1756config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1757 bool
1758 help
1759 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1760
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1761config PC104
1762 bool "PC/104 support"
1763 help
1764 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1765 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1766 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1767
57c0c15b 1768menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1770config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1771 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1772 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1773 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1774 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1775 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1776 select SRCU
0793a61d 1777 help
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1778 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1779 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1780
dd77038d 1781 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1782 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1783
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1784 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1785 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1786 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1787 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1788 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1789 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1790 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1791
57c0c15b 1792 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1793 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1794 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1795 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1796 capabilities on top of those.
1797
1798 Say Y if unsure.
1799
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1800config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1801 default n
1802 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1803 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1804 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1805 help
1806 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1807
1808 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1809 that don't require it.
1810
1811 Say N if unsure.
1812
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1815config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1816 default y
6a108a14 1817 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1818 help
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1819 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1820 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1821 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1822 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1823
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1824config SLUB_DEBUG
1825 default y
6a108a14 1826 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1827 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1829 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1830 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1831 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1832 no support for cache validation etc.
1833
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1835 default n
1836 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1837 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1838 help
1839 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1840 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1841 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1842 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1843 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1844 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1845 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1846 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1847
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1849 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1850 default y
1851 help
1852 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1853 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1854 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1855 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1857
1858 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1859
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1861 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1862 default SLUB
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1864 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1865
1866config SLAB
1867 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1868 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1870 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1871 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1872 per cpu and per node queues.
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1874config SLUB
81819f0f 1875 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1876 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1877 help
1878 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1879 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1880 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1881 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1883 a slab allocator.
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1885config SLOB
6a108a14 1886 depends on EXPERT
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1887 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1888 help
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1889 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1890 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1891 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1894
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1895config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1896 default n
210e7a43 1897 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1898 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1899 help
210e7a43 1900 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1901 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1902 allocator against heap overflows.
1903
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1904config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1905 default y
b39ffbf8 1906 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1907 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1908 help
1909 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1910 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1911 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1912 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1913 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1914
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1916 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1917 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1918 default n
1919 help
1920 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1921 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1922 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1923 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1924 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1925 then the flag will be ignored.
1926
1927 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1928 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1929
1930 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1931 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1932 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1933 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1934
1935 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1936
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1938 def_bool n
1939 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1940 select KEYS
1941 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1942 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1943 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1944 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1945 select ASN1
1946 select OID_REGISTRY
1947 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1948 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1949 help
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1950 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1951 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1952 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1953 verification.
82c04ff8 1954
125e5645 1955config PROFILING
b309a294 1956 bool "Profiling support"
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1958 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1959 by profilers such as OProfile.
1960
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1962# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1963# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1964#
97e1c18e 1965config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1966 bool
97e1c18e 1967
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1969
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1971
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1972config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1973 bool
1974 default n
1975
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1976config SLABINFO
1977 bool
1978 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1979 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1980 default y
1981
ae81f9e3 1982config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1983 bool
ae81f9e3 1984
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1985config BASE_SMALL
1986 int
1987 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1988 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1989
66da5733 1990menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1991 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1992 option modules
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1993 help
1994 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1995 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1996 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1997 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1998 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1999 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
2000 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
2001 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
2002 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
2003
2004 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
2005 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
2006 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
2007 this).
2008
2009 If unsure, say Y.
2010
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2012
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2013config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2014 bool "Forced module loading"
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2015 default n
2016 help
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2017 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
2018 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
2019 is usually a really bad idea.
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2021config MODULE_UNLOAD
2022 bool "Module unloading"
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2023 help
2024 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2025 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2027 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2029config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2030 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2031 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2032 help
2033 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2034 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2035 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2036 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2037 If unsure, say N.
2038
1da177e4 2039config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2040 bool "Module versioning support"
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2041 help
2042 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2043 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2044 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2045 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2046 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2047 unsure, say N.
2048
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2050 bool
2051 depends on MODVERSIONS
2052
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2054 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2055 help
2056 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2057 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2058 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2059 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2060 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2061 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2062 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2063
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2065 bool "Module signature verification"
2066 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 2067 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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2068 help
2069 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2070 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2071 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2072
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2073 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2074 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2075 library.
2076
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2077 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2078 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2079 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2080 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2081
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2083 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2084 depends on MODULE_SIG
2085 help
2086 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2087 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2090 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2091 default y
2092 depends on MODULE_SIG
2093 help
2094 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2095 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2096
2097comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2098 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2099
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2101 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2102 depends on MODULE_SIG
2103 help
2104 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2105 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2106 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2107 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2108 the signature on that module.
2109
2110config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2111 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2112 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2113
2114config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2115 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2116 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2117
2118config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2119 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2120 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2121
2122config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2123 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2124 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2125
2126config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2127 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2128 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2129
2130endchoice
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2133 string
2134 depends on MODULE_SIG
2135 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2136 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2137 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2138 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2139 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2140
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2141config MODULE_COMPRESS
2142 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2143 depends on MODULES
2144 help
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2146 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2147 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2149 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2151 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2152 compressed upon installation.
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2154 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2155 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2157 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2158
2159 If in doubt, say N.
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2161choice
2162 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2163 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2164 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2165 help
2166 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2167 'make modules_install'.
2168
2169 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2170
2171config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2172 bool "GZIP"
2173
2174config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2175 bool "XZ"
2176
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2178
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2179config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2180 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2181 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2182 help
2183 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2184 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2185 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2186 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2187
2188 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2189 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2190 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2191 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2192
f1cb637e 2193 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2196
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2197config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2198 def_bool y
2199 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2200
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2201config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2202 bool
2203 help
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2204 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2205 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2206 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2207 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
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2212config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2213 bool
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2215config PADATA
2216 depends on SMP
2217 bool
2218
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2219config ASN1
2220 tristate
2221 help
2222 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2223 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2224 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2225 functions to call on what tags.
2226
6beb0009 2227source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"