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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
ff0cfc66 36menu "General setup"
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38config BROKEN
39 bool
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40
41config BROKEN_ON_SMP
42 bool
43 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
44 default y
45
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46config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
47 int
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48 default 32 if !UML
49 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 50 help
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51 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
52 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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55config CROSS_COMPILE
56 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
57 help
58 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
59 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
60 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
61 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
62
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63config COMPILE_TEST
64 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 65 depends on !UML
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66 default n
67 help
68 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
69 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
70 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
71 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
72 drivers to compile-test them.
73
74 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
75 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
76 drivers to be distributed.
77
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78config LOCALVERSION
79 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
80 help
81 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
82 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
83 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
84 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
85 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
86 be a maximum of 64 characters.
87
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88config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
89 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
90 default y
ac3339ba 91 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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92 help
93 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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94 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
95 top of tree revision.
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96
97 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 98 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 99 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 100 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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102 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
103 by running the command:
104
105 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
106
107 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
110 bool
111
112config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
116 bool
117
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118config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
125 bool
126
30d65dbf 127choice
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128 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
129 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 130 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 131 help
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132 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
133 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
134 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
135 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
136 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
137
138 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
139 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
140 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
141 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
142
143 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
144 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
145 size matters less.
146
147 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
148
149config KERNEL_GZIP
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150 bool "Gzip"
151 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
152 help
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153 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
154 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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155
156config KERNEL_BZIP2
157 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 158 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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159 help
160 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 161 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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162 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
163 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
164 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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166config KERNEL_LZMA
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167 bool "LZMA"
168 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
169 help
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170 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
171 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
172 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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174config KERNEL_XZ
175 bool "XZ"
176 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
177 help
178 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
179 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
180 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
181 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
182 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
183 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
184
185 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
186 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
187 and LZO. Compression is slow.
188
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189config KERNEL_LZO
190 bool "LZO"
191 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
192 help
0a4dd35c 193 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 194 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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195 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
196
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197config KERNEL_LZ4
198 bool "LZ4"
199 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
200 help
201 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
202 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
203 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
204
205 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
206 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
207 faster than LZO.
208
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209endchoice
210
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211config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
212 string "Default hostname"
213 default "(none)"
214 help
215 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
216 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
217 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
218 system more usable with less configuration.
219
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220config SWAP
221 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 222 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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223 default y
224 help
225 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 226 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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227 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
228 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
229
230config SYSVIPC
231 bool "System V IPC"
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232 ---help---
233 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
234 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
235 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
236 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
237 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
238 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
239 you'll need to say Y here.
240
241 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
242 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
243 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
244
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245config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
246 bool
247 depends on SYSVIPC
248 depends on SYSCTL
249 default y
250
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251config POSIX_MQUEUE
252 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 253 depends on NET
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254 ---help---
255 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
256 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
257 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
258 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 259 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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260
261 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
262 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
263 operations on message queues.
264
265 If unsure, say Y.
266
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267config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
268 bool
269 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
270 depends on SYSCTL
271 default y
272
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273config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
274 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
275 depends on MMU
276 default y
277 help
278 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
279 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 280 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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281 See the man page for more details.
282
391dc69c 283config FHANDLE
f76be617 284 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 285 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 286 default y
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287 help
288 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
289 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
290 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
291 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
292 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
293 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
294 syscalls.
295
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296config USELIB
297 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 298 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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299 help
300 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
301 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
302 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
303 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
304 running glibc can safely disable this.
305
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306config AUDIT
307 bool "Auditing support"
308 depends on NET
309 help
310 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
311 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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312 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
313 on architectures which support it.
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315config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
316 bool
317
391dc69c 318config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 319 def_bool y
7a017721 320 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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322config AUDIT_WATCH
323 def_bool y
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325 select FSNOTIFY
326
327config AUDIT_TREE
328 def_bool y
329 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
330 select FSNOTIFY
331
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332source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
333source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
334
335menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
336
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337config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
338 bool
339
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340choice
341 prompt "Cputime accounting"
342 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 343 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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344
345# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
346config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
347 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 348 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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349 help
350 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
351 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
352 granularity.
353
354 If unsure, say Y.
355
abf917cd 356config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 357 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 358 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 359 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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360 help
361 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
362 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
363 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
364 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
365 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
366 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
367 systems.
368
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369config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
370 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 371 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 372 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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373 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
374 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
375 help
376 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
377 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
378 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
379 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
380 overhead.
381
382 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
383 dynticks subsystem development.
384
385 If unsure, say N.
386
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388
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389config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
390 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 391 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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392 help
393 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
394 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
395 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
396 small performance impact.
397
398 If in doubt, say N here.
399
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400config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
401 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 402 depends on MULTIUSER
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403 help
404 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
405 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
406 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
407 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
408 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
409 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
410 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
411 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
412 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
413
414config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
415 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
416 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
417 default n
418 help
419 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
420 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
421 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
422 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
423 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 424 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 426config TASKSTATS
19c92399 427 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 428 depends on NET
2813893f 429 depends on MULTIUSER
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430 default n
431 help
432 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
433 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
434 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
435 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
436 space on task exit.
437
438 Say N if unsure.
439
ca74e92b 440config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 441 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 442 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 443 select SCHED_INFO
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444 help
445 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
446 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
447 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
448 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
449
450 Say N if unsure.
451
18f705f4 452config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 453 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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454 depends on TASKSTATS
455 help
456 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
457 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
458
459 Say N if unsure.
460
461config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 462 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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463 depends on TASK_XACCT
464 help
465 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
466 task has caused.
467
468 Say N if unsure.
469
391dc69c 470endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 471
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472menu "RCU Subsystem"
473
c903ff83 474config TREE_RCU
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475 bool
476 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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477 help
478 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
479 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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480 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
481 smaller systems.
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28f6569a 483config PREEMPT_RCU
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484 bool
485 default y if PREEMPT
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486 help
487 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
488 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
489 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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490 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
491 smaller systems.
f41d911f 492
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493 Select this option if you are unsure.
494
9b1d82fa 495config TINY_RCU
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496 bool
497 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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498 help
499 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
500 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
501 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
502 memory footprint of RCU.
503
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504config RCU_EXPERT
505 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
506 default n
507 help
508 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
509 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
510 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
511 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
512 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
513 obscure RCU options to be set up.
514
515 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
516
517 Say N if you are unsure.
518
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519config SRCU
520 bool
521 help
522 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
523 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
524 sections.
525
8315f422 526config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 527 bool
8315f422 528 default n
570dd3c7 529 depends on !UML
83fe27ea 530 select SRCU
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531 help
532 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
533 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
534 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
535
6bfc09e2 536config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 537 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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538 help
539 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
540 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
541 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
542 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
543
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544config CONTEXT_TRACKING
545 bool
546
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547config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
548 bool "Force context tracking"
549 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 550 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 551 help
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552 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
553 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
554 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
555 dynticks working.
556
557 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
558 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
559 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
560 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
561 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
562 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
563 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
564 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
565 CPUs in the system.
566
99c8b1ea 567 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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568 architecture backend for the context tracking.
569
570 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
571 don't want in production.
572
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574config RCU_FANOUT
575 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
576 range 2 64 if 64BIT
577 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 578 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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580 default 32 if !64BIT
581 help
582 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
583 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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584 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
585 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
586 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
587 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
588 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
589 code paths on small(er) systems.
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591 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
592 Take the default if unsure.
593
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594config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
595 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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596 range 2 64 if 64BIT
597 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 598 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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599 default 16
600 help
601 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
602 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
603 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
604 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
605 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
606 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
607 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
608 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
609 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
610 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
611 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
612 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
613 leaf-level fanouts work well.
614
615 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
616
617 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
618
619 Take the default if unsure.
620
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621config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
622 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 623 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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624 default n
625 help
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626 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
627 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
628 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
629 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
630 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
631 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
632 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
ba49df47 633
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634 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
635 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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636
637 Say N if you are unsure.
638
c903ff83 639config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 640 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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642 help
f41d911f 643 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 644 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 645 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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648 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 649 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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651 help
652 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
653 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
654 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
655 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
656
657 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
658 Say N here if you are unsure.
659
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661 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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663 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
664 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
665 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 666 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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669 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
670 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
671 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
672 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
673 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
674 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
675 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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677
678 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
679 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
680 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 681 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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683 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
684 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
685 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 686 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 687 set to priority 6 or higher.
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689 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
690
691config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
692 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
693 range 0 3000
694 depends on RCU_BOOST
695 default 500
696 help
697 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
698 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
699 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
700 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
701
702 Accept the default if unsure.
703
3fbfbf7a 704config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 705 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 706 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 707 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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709 help
710 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
711 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
712 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
713 asymmetric multiprocessors.
714
715 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
716 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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718 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
719 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
720 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
721 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
722 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
723 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
3fbfbf7a 724
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727
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729 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
730 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 731 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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734 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
735 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
736 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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738config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
739 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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740 help
741 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
742 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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744 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
745 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
746
747 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
748 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
749 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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751config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
752 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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755 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
756 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
757 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
758 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
759 context.
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761 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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763 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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765config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
766 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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768 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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770 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
771 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
772 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
773 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
774 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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776 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
777 or energy-efficiency reasons.
778
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782 bool
783 default n
784 help
785 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
786 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
787 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
788 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
789 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
790 init is exec'ed.
791
792 Accept the default if unsure.
793
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795
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797 bool
798 default n
799
1da177e4 800config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 801 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 802 select BUILD_BIN2C
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804 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
805 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
806 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
807 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
808 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
809 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
810 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
811 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
812
813config IKCONFIG_PROC
814 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
815 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
816 ---help---
817 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
818 through /proc/config.gz.
819
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821 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 822 range 12 25
f17a32e9 823 default 17
361e9dfb 824 depends on PRINTK
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827 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
828 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
829 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
830
f17a32e9 831 Examples:
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f17a32e9 833 16 => 64 KB
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835 14 => 16 KB
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837 12 => 4 KB
838
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840 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 841 depends on SMP
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843 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
844 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 845 depends on PRINTK
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847 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
848 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
849 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
850 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
851 e.g. backtraces.
852
853 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
854 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
855 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
856 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
857 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
858 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
859
860 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
861 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
862
863 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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865 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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867 Examples shift values and their meaning:
868 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
869 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
870 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
871 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
872 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
873 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
874
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876 int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
877 range 10 21
878 default 13
879 depends on PRINTK_NMI
880 help
881 Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
882 stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
883 to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
884
885 NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
886 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
887 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
888
889 Examples:
890 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
891 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
892 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
893 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
894 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
895 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
896
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898# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
899#
900config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
901 bool
902
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904 bool
905
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907# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
908# balancing logic:
909#
910config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
911 bool
912
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914# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
915# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
916# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
917# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
918# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
919# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
920config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
921 bool
922
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924# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
925#
926config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
927 bool
928
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930# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
931#
932config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
933 bool
934
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936 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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938 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
939 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
940 help
941 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
942 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 943 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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945 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
946
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948 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
949 default y
950 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
951 help
952 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
953 machine.
954
23964d2d 955menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 956 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 957 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 958 help
23964d2d 959 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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960 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
961 controls or device isolation.
962 See
5cdc38f9 963 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 964 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 965 and resource control)
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967 Say N if unsure.
968
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970
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972 bool
973
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a0166ec4 975 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 976 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 977 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 978 help
a0166ec4 979 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 980
c255a458 981config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 982 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 983 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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986
c255a458 987config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 988 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 989 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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991 help
992 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
993 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 994 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 995 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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997 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
998 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 999 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c077719b 1000
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1002 bool "IO controller"
1003 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 1004 default n
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1006 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1007 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1008 policies.
2bc64a20 1009
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1011 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1012 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1013 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
e5d1367f 1014
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1016 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1017 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1018 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1019 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1020
9991a9c8 1021 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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1023config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1024 bool "IO controller debugging"
1025 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1026 default n
1027 ---help---
1028 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1029 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1030
1031config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1032 bool
1033 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1034 default y
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7c941438 1036menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 1037 bool "CPU controller"
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1039 help
1040 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1041 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1042 tasks.
1043
1044if CGROUP_SCHED
1045config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1046 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1047 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1048 default CGROUP_SCHED
1049
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1051 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1053 default n
1054 help
1055 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1056 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1057 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1058 restriction.
1059 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1060
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1062 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1064 default n
1065 help
1066 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1067 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1069 realtime bandwidth for them.
1070 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1071
1072endif #CGROUP_SCHED
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1075 bool "PIDs controller"
1076 help
1077 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1078 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1079 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1080 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1081 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1082 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1083 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1085 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1086 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1088 attach to a cgroup.
1089
1090config CGROUP_FREEZER
1091 bool "Freezer controller"
1092 help
1093 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1094 cgroup.
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1097 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1098
1099 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1100
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1102 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1103 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1104 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1105 default n
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1107 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1108 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1109 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1110 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1111 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1112 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1113 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1114 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1115 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1118 bool "Cpuset controller"
1119 help
1120 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1121 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1122 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1123 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1124
6bf024e6 1125 Say N if unsure.
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1128 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1129 depends on CPUSETS
1130 default y
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1133 bool "Device controller"
1134 help
1135 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1136 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1137
1138config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1139 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1140 help
1141 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1142 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1143
1144config CGROUP_PERF
1145 bool "Perf controller"
1146 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1147 help
1148 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1149 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1150 designated cpu.
1151
1152 Say N if unsure.
1153
1154config CGROUP_DEBUG
1155 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1156 default n
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1158 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1159 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
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6bf024e6 1161 Say N.
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23964d2d 1163endif # CGROUPS
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1166 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1167 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1169 help
1170 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1171 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1172 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1173 entries.
1174
1175 If unsure, say N here.
1176
8dd2a82c 1177menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1178 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1179 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1180 default !EXPERT
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1182 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1183 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1184 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1185 different namespaces.
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1190 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1191 default y
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1193 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1194 uname() system call
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1197 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1198 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1199 default y
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1201 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1202 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1203
aee16ce7 1204config USER_NS
19c92399 1205 bool "User namespace"
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1208 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1209 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1213 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1214 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1217
74bd59bb 1218config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1219 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1220 default y
74bd59bb 1221 help
12d2b8f9 1222 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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1226config NET_NS
1227 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1228 depends on NET
17a6d441 1229 default y
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1230 help
1231 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1232 of the network stack.
1233
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1234endif # NAMESPACES
1235
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1236config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1237 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1238 select CGROUPS
1239 select CGROUP_SCHED
1240 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1241 help
1242 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1243 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1244 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1245 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1246 upon task session.
1247
7af37bec 1248config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1249 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1250 depends on SYSFS
1251 default n
1252 help
1253 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1254 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1255 /sys/block/.
1256
1257 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1258 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1259
1260 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1261 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1262 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1263
1264 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1265 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1266 option enabled.
1267
1268 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1269 need to say Y here.
1270
1271config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1272 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1273 default n
1274 depends on SYSFS
1275 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1276 help
1277 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1278
1279 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1280 option.
1281
1282 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1283 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1284 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1285
1286config RELAY
1287 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1288 help
1289 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1290 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1291 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1292 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1293 user space.
1294
1295 If unsure, say N.
1296
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1297config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1298 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1299 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1300 help
1301 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1302 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1303 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1304 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1305 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1306
1307 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1308 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1309 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1310
1311 If unsure say Y.
1312
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1313if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1314
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1316
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1317endif
1318
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1319choice
1320 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1321 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1322
1323config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1324 bool "Optimize for performance"
1325 help
1326 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1327 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1328 helpful compile-time warnings.
1329
c45b4f1f 1330config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1331 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1332 help
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1333 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1334 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1335
3a55fb0d 1336 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1337
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1339
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1340config SYSCTL
1341 bool
1342
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1343config ANON_INODES
1344 bool
1345
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1346config HAVE_UID16
1347 bool
1348
1349config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1350 bool
1351 help
1352 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1353
1354config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1355 bool
1356 help
1357 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1358 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1359 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1360
1361config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1362 bool
1363 help
1364 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1365 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1366 the unaligned access emulation.
1367 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1368
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1369config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1370 bool
1371
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1372# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1373config BPF
1374 bool
1375
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1376menuconfig EXPERT
1377 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1378 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1379 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1380 help
1381 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1382 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1383 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1384 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1385
ae81f9e3 1386config UID16
6a108a14 1387 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1388 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1389 default y
1390 help
1391 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1392
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1393config MULTIUSER
1394 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1395 default y
1396 help
1397 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1398 capabilities.
1399
1400 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1401 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1402 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1403 setgid, and capset.
1404
1405 If unsure, say Y here.
1406
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1407config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1408 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1409 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1410 ---help---
1411 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1412 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1413 architectures.
1414
1415 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1416
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1417config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1418 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1419 default y
1420 ---help---
1421 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1422 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1423 compatibility with some systems.
1424
1425 If unsure say Y here.
1426
b89a8171 1427config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1428 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1429 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1430 default n
b89a8171 1431 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1432 ---help---
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1433 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1434 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1435 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1436 information.
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1438 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1439 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1440 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1441
c736de60 1442 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1443
1da177e4 1444config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1445 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1446 default y
1447 help
1448 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1449 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1450 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1451
1452config KALLSYMS_ALL
1453 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1455 help
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1456 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1457 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1458 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1459 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1460 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1461
1462 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1463 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1464 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1465 something like this).
1466
1467 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1469config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1470 bool
076501ff 1471 depends on KALLSYMS
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1472 default X86_64 && SMP
1473
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1474config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1475 bool
1476 depends on KALLSYMS
1477 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1478 help
1479 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1480 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1481 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1482 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1483 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1484 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1485 address encountered in the image.
1486
1487 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1488 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1489 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1490 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1491
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1492config PRINTK
1493 default y
6a108a14 1494 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1495 select IRQ_WORK
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1496 help
1497 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1498 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1499 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1500 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1501 strongly discouraged.
1502
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1504 def_bool y
1505 depends on PRINTK
1506 depends on HAVE_NMI
1507
c8538a7a 1508config BUG
6a108a14 1509 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1510 default y
1511 help
1512 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1513 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1514 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1515 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1516 Just say Y.
1517
708e9a79 1518config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1519 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1520 default y
6a108a14 1521 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1522 help
1523 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1524
8761f1ab 1525
e5e1d3cb 1526config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1527 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1528 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1529 select I8253_LOCK
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1530 default y
1531 help
1532 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1533 support, saving some memory.
1534
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1535config BASE_FULL
1536 default y
6a108a14 1537 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1538 help
1539 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1540 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1541 but may reduce performance.
1542
1543config FUTEX
6a108a14 1544 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1545 default y
23f78d4a 1546 select RT_MUTEXES
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1547 help
1548 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1549 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1550 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1551
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1552config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1553 bool
62b4d204 1554 depends on FUTEX
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1555 help
1556 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1557 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1558 checks.
1559
1da177e4 1560config EPOLL
6a108a14 1561 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1562 default y
448e3cee 1563 select ANON_INODES
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1564 help
1565 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1566 support for epoll family of system calls.
1567
fba2afaa 1568config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1569 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1570 select ANON_INODES
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1571 default y
1572 help
1573 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1574 on a file descriptor.
1575
1576 If unsure, say Y.
1577
b215e283 1578config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1579 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1580 select ANON_INODES
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1581 default y
1582 help
1583 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1584 events on a file descriptor.
1585
1586 If unsure, say Y.
1587
e1ad7468 1588config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1589 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1590 select ANON_INODES
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1591 default y
1592 help
1593 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1594 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1595
1596 If unsure, say Y.
1597
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1599config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1600 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1601 select ANON_INODES
1602 select BPF
1603 default n
1604 help
1605 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1606 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1607
1da177e4 1608config SHMEM
6a108a14 1609 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1610 default y
1611 depends on MMU
1612 help
1613 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1614 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1615 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1616 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1617 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1618
ebf3f09c 1619config AIO
6a108a14 1620 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1621 default y
1622 help
1623 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1624 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1625 this option saves about 7k.
1626
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1627config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1628 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1629 default y
1630 help
1631 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1632 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1633 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1634 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1635 space.
1636
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1637config USERFAULTFD
1638 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1639 select ANON_INODES
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1640 depends on MMU
1641 help
1642 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1643 handle page faults in userland.
1644
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1645config PCI_QUIRKS
1646 default y
1647 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1648 depends on PCI
1649 help
1650 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1651 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1652 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1653
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1654config MEMBARRIER
1655 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1656 default y
1657 help
1658 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1659 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1660 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1661 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1662 compiler barrier.
1663
1664 If unsure, say Y.
1665
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1666config EMBEDDED
1667 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1668 option allnoconfig_y
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1669 select EXPERT
1670 help
1671 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1672 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1673 for configuration.
1674
cdd6c482 1675config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1676 bool
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1677 help
1678 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1679
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1680config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1681 bool
1682 help
1683 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1684
57c0c15b 1685menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1687config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1688 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1689 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1690 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1691 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1692 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1693 select SRCU
0793a61d 1694 help
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1695 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1696 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1697
dd77038d 1698 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1699 use of generic tracepoints.
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1701 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1702 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1703 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1704 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1705 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1706 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1707 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1708
57c0c15b 1709 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1710 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1711 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1712 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1713 capabilities on top of those.
1714
1715 Say Y if unsure.
1716
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1717config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1718 default n
1719 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1720 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1721 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1722 help
1723 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1724
1725 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1726 that don't require it.
1727
1728 Say N if unsure.
1729
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1731
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1732config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1733 default y
6a108a14 1734 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1735 help
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1736 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1737 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1738 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1739 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1740
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1741config SLUB_DEBUG
1742 default y
6a108a14 1743 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1744 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1745 help
1746 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1747 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1748 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1749 no support for cache validation etc.
1750
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1751config COMPAT_BRK
1752 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1753 default y
1754 help
1755 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1756 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1757 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1758 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1759 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1760
1761 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1762
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1764 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1765 default SLUB
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1766 help
1767 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1768
1769config SLAB
1770 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1771 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1772 help
1773 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1774 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1775 per cpu and per node queues.
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1777config SLUB
81819f0f 1778 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1779 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1780 help
1781 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1782 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1783 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1784 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1785 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1786 a slab allocator.
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1788config SLOB
6a108a14 1789 depends on EXPERT
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1790 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1791 help
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1792 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1793 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1794 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1797
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1798config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1799 default n
210e7a43 1800 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1801 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1802 help
210e7a43 1803 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1804 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1805 allocator against heap overflows.
1806
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1807config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1808 default y
b39ffbf8 1809 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1810 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1811 help
1812 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1813 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1814 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1815 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1816 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1817
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1818config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1819 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1820 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1821 default n
1822 help
1823 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1824 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1825 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1826 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1827 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1828 then the flag will be ignored.
1829
1830 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1831 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1832
1833 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1834 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1835 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1836 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1837
1838 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1839
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1841 def_bool n
1842 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1843 select KEYS
1844 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1845 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1846 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1847 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1848 select ASN1
1849 select OID_REGISTRY
1850 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1851 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1852 help
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1853 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1854 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1855 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1856 verification.
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125e5645 1858config PROFILING
b309a294 1859 bool "Profiling support"
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1860 help
1861 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1862 by profilers such as OProfile.
1863
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1865# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1866# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1867#
97e1c18e 1868config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1869 bool
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1871source "arch/Kconfig"
1872
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1873endmenu # General setup
1874
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1875config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1876 bool
1877 default n
1878
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1879config SLABINFO
1880 bool
1881 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1882 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1883 default y
1884
ae81f9e3 1885config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1886 bool
ae81f9e3 1887
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1888config BASE_SMALL
1889 int
1890 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1891 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1892
66da5733 1893menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1894 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1895 option modules
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1896 help
1897 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1898 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1899 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1900 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1901 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1902 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1903 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1904 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1905 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1906
1907 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1908 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1909 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1910 this).
1911
1912 If unsure, say Y.
1913
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1914if MODULES
1915
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1916config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1917 bool "Forced module loading"
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1918 default n
1919 help
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1920 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1921 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1922 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1923
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1924config MODULE_UNLOAD
1925 bool "Module unloading"
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1926 help
1927 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1928 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1929 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1930 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1931
1932config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1933 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1934 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1935 help
1936 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1937 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1938 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1939 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1940 If unsure, say N.
1941
1da177e4 1942config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1943 bool "Module versioning support"
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1944 help
1945 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1946 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1947 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1948 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1949 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1950 unsure, say N.
1951
1952config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1953 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1954 help
1955 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1956 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1957 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1958 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1959 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1960 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1961 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1962
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1963config MODULE_SIG
1964 bool "Module signature verification"
1965 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1966 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1967 help
1968 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1969 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1970 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1971
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1972 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1973 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1974 library.
1975
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1976 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1977 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1978 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1979 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1980
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1982 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1983 depends on MODULE_SIG
1984 help
1985 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1986 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1988config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1989 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1990 default y
1991 depends on MODULE_SIG
1992 help
1993 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1994 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1995
1996comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1997 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1998
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1999choice
2000 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2001 depends on MODULE_SIG
2002 help
2003 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2004 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2005 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2006 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2007 the signature on that module.
2008
2009config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2010 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2011 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2012
2013config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2014 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2015 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2016
2017config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2018 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2019 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2020
2021config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2022 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2023 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2024
2025config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2026 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2027 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2028
2029endchoice
2030
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2031config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2032 string
2033 depends on MODULE_SIG
2034 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2035 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2036 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2037 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2038 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2039
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2040config MODULE_COMPRESS
2041 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2042 depends on MODULES
2043 help
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2045 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2046 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2048 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2050 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2051 compressed upon installation.
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2053 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2054 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2056 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2057
2058 If in doubt, say N.
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2059
2060choice
2061 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2062 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2063 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2064 help
2065 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2066 'make modules_install'.
2067
2068 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2069
2070config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2071 bool "GZIP"
2072
2073config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2074 bool "XZ"
2075
2076endchoice
2077
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2078config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2079 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2080 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2081 help
2082 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2083 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2084 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2085 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2086
2087 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2088 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2089 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2090 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2091
f1cb637e 2092 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2095
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2096config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2097 def_bool y
2098 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2099
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2100config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2101 bool
2102 help
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2103 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2104 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2105 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2106 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2107 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2111config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2112 bool
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2114config PADATA
2115 depends on SMP
2116 bool
2117
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2118# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2119# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2120# mappings
2121config BROKEN_RODATA
2122 bool
2123
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2124config ASN1
2125 tristate
2126 help
2127 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2128 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2129 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2130 functions to call on what tags.
2131
6beb0009 2132source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"