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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
11 depends on !UML
12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22
23config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
30menu "General setup"
31
32config EXPERIMENTAL
33 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
34 ---help---
35 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
36 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
37 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
38 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
39 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
40 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
41 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
42 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
43 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
44 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
45 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
46 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
47 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
48 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
49 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
50 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
51
52 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
53 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
54 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
55
56 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
57 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
58 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
59 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
60 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
61 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
62
63config BROKEN
64 bool
65
66config BROKEN_ON_SMP
67 bool
68 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
69 default y
70
71config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
72 int
73 default 32 if !UML
74 default 128 if UML
75 help
76 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
77 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
78
79
80config CROSS_COMPILE
81 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
82 help
83 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
84 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
85 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
86 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
87
88config LOCALVERSION
89 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
90 help
91 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
92 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
93 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
94 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
95 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
96 be a maximum of 64 characters.
97
98config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
99 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
100 default y
101 help
102 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
103 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
104 top of tree revision.
105
106 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
107 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
108 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
109 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
110
111 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
112 by running the command:
113
114 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
115
116 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
119 bool
120
121config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
125 bool
126
127config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
128 bool
129
130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
131 bool
132
133choice
134 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
135 default KERNEL_GZIP
136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
137 help
138 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
139 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
140 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
141 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
142 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
143
144 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
145 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
146 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
147 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
148
149 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
150 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
151 size matters less.
152
153 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
154
155config KERNEL_GZIP
156 bool "Gzip"
157 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
158 help
159 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
160 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
161
162config KERNEL_BZIP2
163 bool "Bzip2"
164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
165 help
166 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
167 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
168 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
169 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
170 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
171
172config KERNEL_LZMA
173 bool "LZMA"
174 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
175 help
176 The most recent compression algorithm.
177 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
178 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
179 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
180
181config KERNEL_XZ
182 bool "XZ"
183 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
184 help
185 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
186 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
187 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
188 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
189 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
190 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
191
192 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
193 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
194 and LZO. Compression is slow.
195
196config KERNEL_LZO
197 bool "LZO"
198 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
199 help
200 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
201 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
202 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
203
204endchoice
205
206config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
207 string "Default hostname"
208 default "(none)"
209 help
210 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
211 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
212 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
213 system more usable with less configuration.
214
215config SWAP
216 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
217 depends on MMU && BLOCK
218 default y
219 help
220 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
221 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
222 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
223 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
224
225config SYSVIPC
226 bool "System V IPC"
227 ---help---
228 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
229 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
230 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
231 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
232 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
233 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
234 you'll need to say Y here.
235
236 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
237 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
238 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
239
240config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
241 bool
242 depends on SYSVIPC
243 depends on SYSCTL
244 default y
245
246config POSIX_MQUEUE
247 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
248 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
249 ---help---
250 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
251 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
252 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
253 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
254 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
255
256 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
257 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
258 operations on message queues.
259
260 If unsure, say Y.
261
262config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
263 bool
264 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
265 depends on SYSCTL
266 default y
267
268config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
269 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
270 help
271 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
272 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
273 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
274 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
275 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
276 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
277 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
278 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
279 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
280
281config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
282 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
283 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
284 default n
285 help
286 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
287 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
288 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
289 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
290 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
291 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
292
293config FHANDLE
294 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
295 select EXPORTFS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
298 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
299 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
300 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
301 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
302 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
303 syscalls.
304
305config TASKSTATS
306 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on NET
308 default n
309 help
310 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
311 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
312 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
313 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
314 space on task exit.
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
318config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
319 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
320 depends on TASKSTATS
321 help
322 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
323 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
324 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
325 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
326
327 Say N if unsure.
328
329config TASK_XACCT
330 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
331 depends on TASKSTATS
332 help
333 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
334 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
335
336 Say N if unsure.
337
338config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
339 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
340 depends on TASK_XACCT
341 help
342 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
343 task has caused.
344
345 Say N if unsure.
346
347config AUDIT
348 bool "Auditing support"
349 depends on NET
350 help
351 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
352 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
353 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
354 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
355
356config AUDITSYSCALL
357 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
358 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
359 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
360 help
361 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
362 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
363 such as SELinux.
364
365config AUDIT_WATCH
366 def_bool y
367 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
368 select FSNOTIFY
369
370config AUDIT_TREE
371 def_bool y
372 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
373 select FSNOTIFY
374
375source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
376
377menu "RCU Subsystem"
378
379choice
380 prompt "RCU Implementation"
381 default TREE_RCU
382
383config TREE_RCU
384 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
385 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
386 help
387 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
388 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
389 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
390 smaller systems.
391
392config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
393 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
394 depends on PREEMPT
395 help
396 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
397 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
398 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
399 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
400 smaller systems.
401
402config TINY_RCU
403 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
404 depends on !SMP
405 help
406 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
407 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
408 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
409 memory footprint of RCU.
410
411config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
412 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
413 depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
414 help
415 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
416 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
417 memory footprint of RCU.
418
419endchoice
420
421config PREEMPT_RCU
422 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
423 help
424 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
425 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
426
427config RCU_TRACE
428 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
429 help
430 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
431 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
432
433 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
434 Say N if you are unsure.
435
436config RCU_FANOUT
437 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
438 range 2 64 if 64BIT
439 range 2 32 if !64BIT
440 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
441 default 64 if 64BIT
442 default 32 if !64BIT
443 help
444 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
445 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
446 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
447 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
448 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
449 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
450 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
451 code paths on small(er) systems.
452
453 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
454 Take the default if unsure.
455
456config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
457 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
458 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
459 default n
460 help
461 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
462 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
463 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
464 strong NUMA behavior.
465
466 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
467
468 Say N if unsure.
469
470config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
471 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
472 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
473 default n
474 help
475 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
476 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
477 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
478 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
479 with large numbers of CPUs.
480
481 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
482 if you have relatively few CPUs.
483
484 Say N if you are unsure.
485
486config TREE_RCU_TRACE
487 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
488 select DEBUG_FS
489 help
490 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
491 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
492 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
493
494config RCU_BOOST
495 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
496 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
497 default n
498 help
499 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
500 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
501 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
502 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
503
504 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
505 Say N here if you are unsure.
506
507config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
508 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
509 range 1 99
510 depends on RCU_BOOST
511 default 1
512 help
513 This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
514 RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound
515 real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
516 the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
517
518 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
519
520config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
521 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
522 range 0 3000
523 depends on RCU_BOOST
524 default 500
525 help
526 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
527 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
528 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
529 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
530
531 Accept the default if unsure.
532
533endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
534
535config IKCONFIG
536 tristate "Kernel .config support"
537 ---help---
538 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
539 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
540 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
541 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
542 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
543 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
544 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
545 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
546
547config IKCONFIG_PROC
548 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
549 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
550 ---help---
551 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
552 through /proc/config.gz.
553
554config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
555 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
556 range 12 21
557 default 17
558 help
559 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
560 Examples:
561 17 => 128 KB
562 16 => 64 KB
563 15 => 32 KB
564 14 => 16 KB
565 13 => 8 KB
566 12 => 4 KB
567
568#
569# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
570#
571config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
572 bool
573
574menuconfig CGROUPS
575 boolean "Control Group support"
576 depends on EVENTFD
577 help
578 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
579 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
580 controls or device isolation.
581 See
582 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
583 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
584 and resource control)
585
586 Say N if unsure.
587
588if CGROUPS
589
590config CGROUP_DEBUG
591 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
592 default n
593 help
594 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
595 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
596 framework.
597
598 Say N if unsure.
599
600config CGROUP_FREEZER
601 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
602 help
603 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
604 cgroup.
605
606config CGROUP_DEVICE
607 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
608 help
609 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
610 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
611
612config CPUSETS
613 bool "Cpuset support"
614 help
615 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
616 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
617 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
618 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
619
620 Say N if unsure.
621
622config PROC_PID_CPUSET
623 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
624 depends on CPUSETS
625 default y
626
627config CGROUP_CPUACCT
628 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
629 help
630 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
631 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
632
633config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
634 bool "Resource counters"
635 help
636 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
637 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
638
639config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
640 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
641 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
642 select MM_OWNER
643 help
644 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
645 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
646
647 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
648 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
649 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
650 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
651 at boot.
652
653 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
654 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
655 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
656 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
657 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
658
659 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
660 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
661
662config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
663 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
664 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
665 help
666 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
667 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
668 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
669 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
670 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
671 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
672 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
673 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
674 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
675 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
676 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
677 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
678 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
679config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
680 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
681 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
682 default y
683 help
684 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
685 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
686 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
687 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
688 parameter should have this option unselected.
689 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
690 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
691 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
692
693config CGROUP_PERF
694 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
695 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
696 help
697 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
698 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
699 designated cpu.
700
701 Say N if unsure.
702
703menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
704 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
705 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
706 default n
707 help
708 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
709 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
710 tasks.
711
712if CGROUP_SCHED
713config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
714 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
715 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
716 default CGROUP_SCHED
717
718config RT_GROUP_SCHED
719 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
720 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
721 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
722 default n
723 help
724 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
725 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
726 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
727 realtime bandwidth for them.
728 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
729
730endif #CGROUP_SCHED
731
732config BLK_CGROUP
733 tristate "Block IO controller"
734 depends on BLOCK
735 default n
736 ---help---
737 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
738 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
739 policies.
740
741 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
742 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
743 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
744 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
745
746 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
747 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
748 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
749 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
750 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
751
752 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
753
754config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
755 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
756 depends on BLK_CGROUP
757 default n
758 ---help---
759 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
760 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
761
762endif # CGROUPS
763
764menuconfig NAMESPACES
765 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
766 default !EXPERT
767 help
768 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
769 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
770 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
771 different namespaces.
772
773if NAMESPACES
774
775config UTS_NS
776 bool "UTS namespace"
777 default y
778 help
779 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
780 uname() system call
781
782config IPC_NS
783 bool "IPC namespace"
784 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
785 default y
786 help
787 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
788 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
789
790config USER_NS
791 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
792 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
793 default y
794 help
795 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
796 to provide different user info for different servers.
797 If unsure, say N.
798
799config PID_NS
800 bool "PID Namespaces"
801 default y
802 help
803 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
804 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
805 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
806
807config NET_NS
808 bool "Network namespace"
809 depends on NET
810 default y
811 help
812 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
813 of the network stack.
814
815endif # NAMESPACES
816
817config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
818 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
819 select EVENTFD
820 select CGROUPS
821 select CGROUP_SCHED
822 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
823 help
824 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
825 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
826 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
827 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
828 upon task session.
829
830config MM_OWNER
831 bool
832
833config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
834 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
835 depends on SYSFS
836 default n
837 help
838 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
839 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
840 /sys/block/.
841
842 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
843 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
844
845 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
846 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
847 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
848
849 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
850 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
851 option enabled.
852
853 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
854 need to say Y here.
855
856config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
857 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
858 default n
859 depends on SYSFS
860 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
861 help
862 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
863
864 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
865 option.
866
867 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
868 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
869 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
870
871config RELAY
872 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
873 help
874 This option enables support for relay interface support in
875 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
876 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
877 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
878 user space.
879
880 If unsure, say N.
881
882config BLK_DEV_INITRD
883 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
884 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
885 help
886 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
887 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
888 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
889 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
890 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
891
892 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
893 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
894 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
895
896 If unsure say Y.
897
898if BLK_DEV_INITRD
899
900source "usr/Kconfig"
901
902endif
903
904config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
905 bool "Optimize for size"
906 help
907 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
908 resulting in a smaller kernel.
909
910 If unsure, say Y.
911
912config SYSCTL
913 bool
914
915config ANON_INODES
916 bool
917
918menuconfig EXPERT
919 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
920 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
921 select DEBUG_KERNEL
922 help
923 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
924 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
925 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
926 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
927
928config UID16
929 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
930 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
931 default y
932 help
933 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
934
935config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
936 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
937 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
938 default y
939 select SYSCTL
940 ---help---
941 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
942 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
943 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
944 information.
945
946 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
947 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
948 making your kernel marginally smaller.
949
950 If unsure say Y here.
951
952config KALLSYMS
953 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
954 default y
955 help
956 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
957 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
958 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
959
960config KALLSYMS_ALL
961 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
962 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
963 help
964 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
965 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
966 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
967 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
968 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
969
970 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
971 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
972 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
973 something like this).
974
975 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
976
977config HOTPLUG
978 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
979 default y
980 help
981 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
982 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
983 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
984 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
985
986config PRINTK
987 default y
988 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
989 help
990 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
991 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
992 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
993 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
994 strongly discouraged.
995
996config BUG
997 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
998 default y
999 help
1000 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1001 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1002 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1003 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1004 Just say Y.
1005
1006config ELF_CORE
1007 default y
1008 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1009 help
1010 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1011
1012
1013config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1014 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1015 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1016 select I8253_LOCK
1017 default y
1018 help
1019 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1020 support, saving some memory.
1021
1022config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1023 bool
1024
1025config BASE_FULL
1026 default y
1027 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1028 help
1029 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1030 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1031 but may reduce performance.
1032
1033config FUTEX
1034 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1035 default y
1036 select RT_MUTEXES
1037 help
1038 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1039 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1040 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1041
1042config EPOLL
1043 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1044 default y
1045 select ANON_INODES
1046 help
1047 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1048 support for epoll family of system calls.
1049
1050config SIGNALFD
1051 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1052 select ANON_INODES
1053 default y
1054 help
1055 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1056 on a file descriptor.
1057
1058 If unsure, say Y.
1059
1060config TIMERFD
1061 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1062 select ANON_INODES
1063 default y
1064 help
1065 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1066 events on a file descriptor.
1067
1068 If unsure, say Y.
1069
1070config EVENTFD
1071 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1072 select ANON_INODES
1073 default y
1074 help
1075 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1076 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1077
1078 If unsure, say Y.
1079
1080config SHMEM
1081 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1082 default y
1083 depends on MMU
1084 help
1085 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1086 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1087 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1088 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1089 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1090
1091config AIO
1092 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1093 default y
1094 help
1095 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1096 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1097 this option saves about 7k.
1098
1099config EMBEDDED
1100 bool "Embedded system"
1101 select EXPERT
1102 help
1103 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1104 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1105 for configuration.
1106
1107config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1108 bool
1109 help
1110 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1111
1112config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1113 bool
1114 help
1115 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1116
1117menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1118
1119config PERF_EVENTS
1120 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1121 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1122 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1123 select ANON_INODES
1124 select IRQ_WORK
1125 help
1126 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1127 by software and hardware.
1128
1129 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1130 use of generic tracepoints.
1131
1132 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1133 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1134 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1135 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1136 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1137 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1138 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1139
1140 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1141 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1142 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1143 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1144 capabilities on top of those.
1145
1146 Say Y if unsure.
1147
1148config PERF_COUNTERS
1149 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1150 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1151 help
1152 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1153 config option - please see that one for details.
1154
1155 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1156 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1157
1158 Say N if unsure.
1159
1160config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1161 default n
1162 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1163 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1164 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1165 help
1166 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1167
1168 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1169 that don't require it.
1170
1171 Say N if unsure.
1172
1173endmenu
1174
1175config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1176 default y
1177 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1178 help
1179 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1180 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1181 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1182 if VM event counters are disabled.
1183
1184config PCI_QUIRKS
1185 default y
1186 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1187 depends on PCI
1188 help
1189 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1190 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1191 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1192
1193config SLUB_DEBUG
1194 default y
1195 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1196 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1197 help
1198 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1199 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1200 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1201 no support for cache validation etc.
1202
1203config COMPAT_BRK
1204 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1205 default y
1206 help
1207 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1208 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1209 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1210 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1211 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1212
1213 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1214
1215choice
1216 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1217 default SLUB
1218 help
1219 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1220
1221config SLAB
1222 bool "SLAB"
1223 help
1224 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1225 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1226 per cpu and per node queues.
1227
1228config SLUB
1229 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1230 help
1231 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1232 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1233 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1234 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1235 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1236 a slab allocator.
1237
1238config SLOB
1239 depends on EXPERT
1240 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1241 help
1242 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1243 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1244 does not perform as well on large systems.
1245
1246endchoice
1247
1248config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1249 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1250 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1251 default n
1252 help
1253 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1254 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1255 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1256 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1257 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1258 then the flag will be ignored.
1259
1260 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1261 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1262
1263 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1264 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1265 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1266 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1267
1268 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1269
1270config PROFILING
1271 bool "Profiling support"
1272 help
1273 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1274 by profilers such as OProfile.
1275
1276#
1277# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1278# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1279#
1280config TRACEPOINTS
1281 bool
1282
1283source "arch/Kconfig"
1284
1285endmenu # General setup
1286
1287config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1288 bool
1289 default n
1290
1291config SLABINFO
1292 bool
1293 depends on PROC_FS
1294 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1295 default y
1296
1297config RT_MUTEXES
1298 boolean
1299
1300config BASE_SMALL
1301 int
1302 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1303 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1304
1305menuconfig MODULES
1306 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1307 help
1308 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1309 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1310 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1311 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1312 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1313 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1314 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1315 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1316 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1317
1318 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1319 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1320 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1321 this).
1322
1323 If unsure, say Y.
1324
1325if MODULES
1326
1327config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1328 bool "Forced module loading"
1329 default n
1330 help
1331 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1332 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1333 is usually a really bad idea.
1334
1335config MODULE_UNLOAD
1336 bool "Module unloading"
1337 help
1338 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1339 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1340 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1341 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1342
1343config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1344 bool "Forced module unloading"
1345 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1346 help
1347 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1348 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1349 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1350 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1351 If unsure, say N.
1352
1353config MODVERSIONS
1354 bool "Module versioning support"
1355 help
1356 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1357 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1358 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1359 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1360 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1361 unsure, say N.
1362
1363config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1364 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1365 help
1366 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1367 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1368 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1369 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1370 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1371 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1372 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1373
1374endif # MODULES
1375
1376config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1377 bool
1378 help
1379 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1380 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1381 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1382 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1383 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1384
1385config STOP_MACHINE
1386 bool
1387 default y
1388 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1389 help
1390 Need stop_machine() primitive.
1391
1392source "block/Kconfig"
1393
1394config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1395 bool
1396
1397config PADATA
1398 depends on SMP
1399 bool
1400
1401source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
11 depends on !UML
12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22
23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
29menu "General setup"
30
31config BROKEN
32 bool
33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
43 help
44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
46
47
48config CROSS_COMPILE
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
50 help
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
55
56config COMPILE_TEST
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58 default n
59 help
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
65
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
69
70config LOCALVERSION
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
72 help
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
79
80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82 default y
83 help
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
86 top of tree revision.
87
88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
92
93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
95
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
97
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
99
100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
101 bool
102
103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
104 bool
105
106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
107 bool
108
109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
110 bool
111
112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116 bool
117
118choice
119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
122 help
123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
128
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
133
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
136 size matters less.
137
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
139
140config KERNEL_GZIP
141 bool "Gzip"
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
143 help
144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
146
147config KERNEL_BZIP2
148 bool "Bzip2"
149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
150 help
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
156
157config KERNEL_LZMA
158 bool "LZMA"
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
160 help
161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
164
165config KERNEL_XZ
166 bool "XZ"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 help
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
175
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
179
180config KERNEL_LZO
181 bool "LZO"
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
183 help
184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
187
188config KERNEL_LZ4
189 bool "LZ4"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191 help
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198 faster than LZO.
199
200endchoice
201
202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
204 default "(none)"
205 help
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
210
211config SWAP
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
214 default y
215 help
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
220
221config SYSVIPC
222 bool "System V IPC"
223 ---help---
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
231
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
235
236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237 bool
238 depends on SYSVIPC
239 depends on SYSCTL
240 default y
241
242config POSIX_MQUEUE
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
244 depends on NET
245 ---help---
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
251
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
255
256 If unsure, say Y.
257
258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259 bool
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261 depends on SYSCTL
262 default y
263
264config FHANDLE
265 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
266 select EXPORTFS
267 help
268 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
269 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
270 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
271 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
272 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
273 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
274 syscalls.
275
276config USELIB
277 bool "uselib syscall"
278 default y
279 help
280 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
281 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
282 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
283 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
284 running glibc can safely disable this.
285
286config AUDIT
287 bool "Auditing support"
288 depends on NET
289 help
290 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
291 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
292 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
293 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
294
295config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
296 bool
297
298config AUDITSYSCALL
299 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
300 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
301 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
302 help
303 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
304 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
305 such as SELinux.
306
307config AUDIT_WATCH
308 def_bool y
309 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
310 select FSNOTIFY
311
312config AUDIT_TREE
313 def_bool y
314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
315 select FSNOTIFY
316
317source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
318source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
319
320menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
321
322config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
323 bool
324
325choice
326 prompt "Cputime accounting"
327 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
328 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
329
330# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
331config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
332 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
333 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
334 help
335 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
336 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
337 granularity.
338
339 If unsure, say Y.
340
341config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
342 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
343 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
344 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
345 help
346 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
347 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
348 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
349 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
350 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
351 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
352 systems.
353
354config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
355 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
356 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
357 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
358 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
359 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
360 help
361 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
362 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
363 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
364 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
365 overhead.
366
367 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
368 dynticks subsystem development.
369
370 If unsure, say N.
371
372config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
373 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
374 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
375 help
376 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
377 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
378 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
379 small performance impact.
380
381 If in doubt, say N here.
382
383endchoice
384
385config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
386 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
387 help
388 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
389 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
390 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
391 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
392 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
393 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
394 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
395 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
396 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
397
398config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
399 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
400 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
401 default n
402 help
403 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
404 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
405 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
406 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
407 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
408 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
409
410config TASKSTATS
411 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
412 depends on NET
413 default n
414 help
415 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
416 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
417 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
418 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
419 space on task exit.
420
421 Say N if unsure.
422
423config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
424 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
425 depends on TASKSTATS
426 help
427 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
428 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
429 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
430 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
431
432 Say N if unsure.
433
434config TASK_XACCT
435 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
436 depends on TASKSTATS
437 help
438 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
439 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
443config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
444 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
445 depends on TASK_XACCT
446 help
447 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
448 task has caused.
449
450 Say N if unsure.
451
452endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
453
454menu "RCU Subsystem"
455
456choice
457 prompt "RCU Implementation"
458 default TREE_RCU
459
460config TREE_RCU
461 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
462 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
463 select IRQ_WORK
464 help
465 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
466 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
467 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
468 smaller systems.
469
470config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
471 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
472 depends on PREEMPT
473 select IRQ_WORK
474 help
475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
476 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
477 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
478 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
479 smaller systems.
480
481 Select this option if you are unsure.
482
483config TINY_RCU
484 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
485 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
486 help
487 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
488 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
489 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
490 memory footprint of RCU.
491
492endchoice
493
494config PREEMPT_RCU
495 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
496 help
497 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
498 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
499
500config RCU_STALL_COMMON
501 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
502 help
503 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
504 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
505 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
506 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
507
508config CONTEXT_TRACKING
509 bool
510
511config RCU_USER_QS
512 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
513 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
514 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
515 help
516 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
517 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
518 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
519 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
520 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
521
522 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
523 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
524 adds unnecessary overhead.
525
526 If unsure say N
527
528config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
529 bool "Force context tracking"
530 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
531 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
532 help
533 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
534 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
535 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
536 dynticks working.
537
538 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
539 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
540 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
541 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
542 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
543 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
544 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
545 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
546 CPUs in the system.
547
548 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
549 architecture backend for the context tracking.
550
551 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
552 don't want in production.
553
554
555config RCU_FANOUT
556 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
557 range 2 64 if 64BIT
558 range 2 32 if !64BIT
559 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
560 default 64 if 64BIT
561 default 32 if !64BIT
562 help
563 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
564 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
565 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
566 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
567 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
568 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
569 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
570 code paths on small(er) systems.
571
572 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
573 Take the default if unsure.
574
575config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
576 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
577 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
578 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
579 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
580 default 16
581 help
582 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
583 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
584 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
585 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
586 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
587 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
588 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
589 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
590 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
591 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
592 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
593 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
594 leaf-level fanouts work well.
595
596 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
597
598 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
599
600 Take the default if unsure.
601
602config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
603 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
604 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
605 default n
606 help
607 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
608 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
609 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
610 strong NUMA behavior.
611
612 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
613
614 Say N if unsure.
615
616config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
617 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
618 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
619 default n
620 help
621 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
622 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
623 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
624 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
625 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
626 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
627 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
628
629 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
630 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
631
632 Say N if you are unsure.
633
634config TREE_RCU_TRACE
635 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
636 select DEBUG_FS
637 help
638 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
639 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
640 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
641
642config RCU_BOOST
643 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
644 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
645 default n
646 help
647 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
648 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
649 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
650 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
651
652 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
653 Say N here if you are unsure.
654
655config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
656 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
657 range 1 99
658 depends on RCU_BOOST
659 default 1
660 help
661 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
662 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
663 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
664 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
665 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
666 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
667 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
668 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
669
670 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
671 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
672 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
673 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
674 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
675 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
676 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
677 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
678 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
679 set to priority 6 or higher.
680
681 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
682
683config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
684 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
685 range 0 3000
686 depends on RCU_BOOST
687 default 500
688 help
689 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
690 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
691 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
692 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
693
694 Accept the default if unsure.
695
696config RCU_NOCB_CPU
697 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
698 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
699 default n
700 help
701 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
702 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
703 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
704 asymmetric multiprocessors.
705
706 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
707 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
708 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
709 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
710 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
711 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
712 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
713 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
714 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
715
716 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
717 Say N here if you are unsure.
718
719choice
720 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
721 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
722 help
723 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
724 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
725 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
726 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
727
728config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
729 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
730 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
731 help
732 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
733 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
734 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
735 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
736 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
737
738 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
739 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
740 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
741
742config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
743 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
744 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
745 help
746 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
747 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
748 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
749 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
750 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
751 context.
752
753 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
754 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
755 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
756
757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
758 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
759 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
760 help
761 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
762 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
763 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
764 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
765 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
766 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
767 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
768
769 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
770 or energy-efficiency reasons.
771
772endchoice
773
774endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
775
776config IKCONFIG
777 tristate "Kernel .config support"
778 ---help---
779 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
780 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
781 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
782 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
783 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
784 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
785 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
786 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
787
788config IKCONFIG_PROC
789 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
790 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
791 ---help---
792 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
793 through /proc/config.gz.
794
795config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
796 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
797 range 12 21
798 default 17
799 help
800 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
801 Examples:
802 17 => 128 KB
803 16 => 64 KB
804 15 => 32 KB
805 14 => 16 KB
806 13 => 8 KB
807 12 => 4 KB
808
809#
810# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
811#
812config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
813 bool
814
815config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
816 bool
817
818#
819# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
820# balancing logic:
821#
822config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
823 bool
824
825#
826# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
827#
828config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
829 bool
830
831# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
832# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
833#
834config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
835 bool
836
837#
838# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
839config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
840 bool
841
842config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
843 bool
844 default y
845 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
846 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
847
848config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
849 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
850 default y
851 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
852 help
853 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
854 machine.
855
856config NUMA_BALANCING
857 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
858 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
859 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
860 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
861 help
862 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
863 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
864 it has references to the node the task is running on.
865
866 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
867
868menuconfig CGROUPS
869 boolean "Control Group support"
870 select KERNFS
871 help
872 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
873 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
874 controls or device isolation.
875 See
876 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
877 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
878 and resource control)
879
880 Say N if unsure.
881
882if CGROUPS
883
884config CGROUP_DEBUG
885 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
886 default n
887 help
888 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
889 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
890 framework.
891
892 Say N if unsure.
893
894config CGROUP_FREEZER
895 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
896 help
897 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
898 cgroup.
899
900config CGROUP_DEVICE
901 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
902 help
903 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
904 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
905
906config CPUSETS
907 bool "Cpuset support"
908 help
909 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
910 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
911 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
912 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
913
914 Say N if unsure.
915
916config PROC_PID_CPUSET
917 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
918 depends on CPUSETS
919 default y
920
921config CGROUP_CPUACCT
922 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
923 help
924 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
925 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
926
927config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
928 bool "Resource counters"
929 help
930 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
931 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
932
933config MEMCG
934 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
935 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
936 select MM_OWNER
937 select EVENTFD
938 help
939 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
940 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
941
942 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
943 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
944 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
945 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
946 at boot.
947
948 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
949 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
950 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
951 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
952 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
953
954 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
955 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
956
957config MEMCG_SWAP
958 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
959 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
960 help
961 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
962 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
963 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
964 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
965 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
966 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
967 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
968 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
969 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
970 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
971 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
972 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
973 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
974config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
975 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
976 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
977 default y
978 help
979 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
980 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
981 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
982 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
983 parameter should have this option unselected.
984 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
985 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
986 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
987config MEMCG_KMEM
988 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
989 depends on MEMCG
990 depends on SLUB || SLAB
991 help
992 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
993 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
994 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
995 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
996 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
997 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
998
999config CGROUP_HUGETLB
1000 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
1001 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
1002 default n
1003 help
1004 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1005 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1006 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1007 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1008 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1009 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1010 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1011 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1012 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1013
1014config CGROUP_PERF
1015 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1016 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1017 help
1018 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
1019 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1020 designated cpu.
1021
1022 Say N if unsure.
1023
1024menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1025 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
1026 default n
1027 help
1028 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1029 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1030 tasks.
1031
1032if CGROUP_SCHED
1033config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1034 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1035 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1036 default CGROUP_SCHED
1037
1038config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1039 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1040 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1041 default n
1042 help
1043 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1044 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1045 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1046 restriction.
1047 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1048
1049config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1050 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
1051 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1052 default n
1053 help
1054 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
1055 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
1056 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1057 realtime bandwidth for them.
1058 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1059
1060endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1061
1062config BLK_CGROUP
1063 bool "Block IO controller"
1064 depends on BLOCK
1065 default n
1066 ---help---
1067 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1068 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1069 policies.
1070
1071 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1072 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1073 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1074 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1075
1076 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1077 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1078 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1079 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1080 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1081
1082 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1083
1084config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1085 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1086 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1087 default n
1088 ---help---
1089 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1090 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1091
1092endif # CGROUPS
1093
1094config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1095 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1096 default n
1097 help
1098 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1099 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1100 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1101 entries.
1102
1103 If unsure, say N here.
1104
1105menuconfig NAMESPACES
1106 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
1107 default !EXPERT
1108 help
1109 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1110 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1111 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1112 different namespaces.
1113
1114if NAMESPACES
1115
1116config UTS_NS
1117 bool "UTS namespace"
1118 default y
1119 help
1120 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1121 uname() system call
1122
1123config IPC_NS
1124 bool "IPC namespace"
1125 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
1126 default y
1127 help
1128 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1129 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1130
1131config USER_NS
1132 bool "User namespace"
1133 default n
1134 help
1135 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1136 to provide different user info for different servers.
1137
1138 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1139 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1140 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1141 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1142 use.
1143
1144 If unsure, say N.
1145
1146config PID_NS
1147 bool "PID Namespaces"
1148 default y
1149 help
1150 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
1151 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
1152 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1153
1154config NET_NS
1155 bool "Network namespace"
1156 depends on NET
1157 default y
1158 help
1159 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1160 of the network stack.
1161
1162endif # NAMESPACES
1163
1164config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1165 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1166 select CGROUPS
1167 select CGROUP_SCHED
1168 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1169 help
1170 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1171 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1172 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1173 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1174 upon task session.
1175
1176config MM_OWNER
1177 bool
1178
1179config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1180 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
1181 depends on SYSFS
1182 default n
1183 help
1184 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1185 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1186 /sys/block/.
1187
1188 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1189 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1190
1191 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1192 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1193 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1194
1195 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1196 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1197 option enabled.
1198
1199 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1200 need to say Y here.
1201
1202config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
1203 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
1204 default n
1205 depends on SYSFS
1206 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1207 help
1208 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1209
1210 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1211 option.
1212
1213 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1214 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1215 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1216
1217config RELAY
1218 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1219 help
1220 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1221 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1222 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1223 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1224 user space.
1225
1226 If unsure, say N.
1227
1228config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1229 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1230 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1231 help
1232 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1233 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1234 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1235 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1236 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1237
1238 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1239 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1240 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1241
1242 If unsure say Y.
1243
1244if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1245
1246source "usr/Kconfig"
1247
1248endif
1249
1250config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1251 bool "Optimize for size"
1252 help
1253 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1254 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1255
1256 If unsure, say N.
1257
1258config SYSCTL
1259 bool
1260
1261config ANON_INODES
1262 bool
1263
1264config HAVE_UID16
1265 bool
1266
1267config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1268 bool
1269 help
1270 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1271
1272config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1273 bool
1274 help
1275 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1276 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1277 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1278
1279config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1280 bool
1281 help
1282 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1283 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1284 the unaligned access emulation.
1285 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1286
1287config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1288 bool
1289
1290menuconfig EXPERT
1291 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1292 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1293 select DEBUG_KERNEL
1294 help
1295 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1296 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1297 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1298 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1299
1300config UID16
1301 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1302 depends on HAVE_UID16
1303 default y
1304 help
1305 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1306
1307config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1308 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1309 default y
1310 ---help---
1311 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1312 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1313 compatibility with some systems.
1314
1315 If unsure say Y here.
1316
1317config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
1318 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
1319 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1320 default n
1321 select SYSCTL
1322 ---help---
1323 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1324 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1325 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1326 information.
1327
1328 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1329 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1330 making your kernel marginally smaller.
1331
1332 If unsure say N here.
1333
1334config KALLSYMS
1335 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1336 default y
1337 help
1338 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1339 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1340 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1341
1342config KALLSYMS_ALL
1343 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1344 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1345 help
1346 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1347 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1348 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1349 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1350 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1351
1352 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1353 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1354 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1355 something like this).
1356
1357 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1358
1359config PRINTK
1360 default y
1361 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1362 select IRQ_WORK
1363 help
1364 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1365 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1366 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1367 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1368 strongly discouraged.
1369
1370config BUG
1371 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1372 default y
1373 help
1374 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1375 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1376 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1377 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1378 Just say Y.
1379
1380config ELF_CORE
1381 depends on COREDUMP
1382 default y
1383 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1384 help
1385 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1386
1387
1388config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1389 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1390 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1391 select I8253_LOCK
1392 default y
1393 help
1394 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1395 support, saving some memory.
1396
1397config BASE_FULL
1398 default y
1399 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1400 help
1401 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1402 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1403 but may reduce performance.
1404
1405config FUTEX
1406 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1407 default y
1408 select RT_MUTEXES
1409 help
1410 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1411 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1412 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1413
1414config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1415 bool
1416 help
1417 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1418 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1419 checks.
1420
1421config EPOLL
1422 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1423 default y
1424 select ANON_INODES
1425 help
1426 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1427 support for epoll family of system calls.
1428
1429config SIGNALFD
1430 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1431 select ANON_INODES
1432 default y
1433 help
1434 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1435 on a file descriptor.
1436
1437 If unsure, say Y.
1438
1439config TIMERFD
1440 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1441 select ANON_INODES
1442 default y
1443 help
1444 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1445 events on a file descriptor.
1446
1447 If unsure, say Y.
1448
1449config EVENTFD
1450 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1451 select ANON_INODES
1452 default y
1453 help
1454 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1455 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1456
1457 If unsure, say Y.
1458
1459config SHMEM
1460 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1461 default y
1462 depends on MMU
1463 help
1464 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1465 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1466 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1467 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1468 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1469
1470config AIO
1471 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1472 default y
1473 help
1474 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1475 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1476 this option saves about 7k.
1477
1478config PCI_QUIRKS
1479 default y
1480 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1481 depends on PCI
1482 help
1483 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1484 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1485 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1486
1487config EMBEDDED
1488 bool "Embedded system"
1489 option allnoconfig_y
1490 select EXPERT
1491 help
1492 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1493 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1494 for configuration.
1495
1496config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1497 bool
1498 help
1499 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1500
1501config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1502 bool
1503 help
1504 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1505
1506menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1507
1508config PERF_EVENTS
1509 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1510 default y if PROFILING
1511 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1512 select ANON_INODES
1513 select IRQ_WORK
1514 help
1515 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1516 by software and hardware.
1517
1518 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1519 use of generic tracepoints.
1520
1521 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1522 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1523 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1524 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1525 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1526 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1527 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1528
1529 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1530 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1531 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1532 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1533 capabilities on top of those.
1534
1535 Say Y if unsure.
1536
1537config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1538 default n
1539 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1540 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1541 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1542 help
1543 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1544
1545 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1546 that don't require it.
1547
1548 Say N if unsure.
1549
1550endmenu
1551
1552config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1553 default y
1554 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1555 help
1556 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1557 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1558 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1559 if VM event counters are disabled.
1560
1561config SLUB_DEBUG
1562 default y
1563 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1564 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1565 help
1566 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1567 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1568 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1569 no support for cache validation etc.
1570
1571config COMPAT_BRK
1572 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1573 default y
1574 help
1575 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1576 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1577 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1578 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1579 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1580
1581 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1582
1583choice
1584 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1585 default SLUB
1586 help
1587 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1588
1589config SLAB
1590 bool "SLAB"
1591 help
1592 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1593 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1594 per cpu and per node queues.
1595
1596config SLUB
1597 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1598 help
1599 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1600 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1601 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1602 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1603 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1604 a slab allocator.
1605
1606config SLOB
1607 depends on EXPERT
1608 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1609 help
1610 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1611 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1612 does not perform as well on large systems.
1613
1614endchoice
1615
1616config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1617 default y
1618 depends on SLUB && SMP
1619 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1620 help
1621 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1622 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1623 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1624 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1625 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1626
1627config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1628 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1629 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1630 default n
1631 help
1632 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1633 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1634 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1635 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1636 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1637 then the flag will be ignored.
1638
1639 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1640 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1641
1642 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1643 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1644 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1645 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1646
1647 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1648
1649config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1650 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1651 depends on KEYS
1652 help
1653 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1654 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1655 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1656 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1657 keys already in the keyring.
1658
1659 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1660
1661config PROFILING
1662 bool "Profiling support"
1663 help
1664 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1665 by profilers such as OProfile.
1666
1667#
1668# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1669# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1670#
1671config TRACEPOINTS
1672 bool
1673
1674source "arch/Kconfig"
1675
1676endmenu # General setup
1677
1678config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1679 bool
1680 default n
1681
1682config SLABINFO
1683 bool
1684 depends on PROC_FS
1685 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1686 default y
1687
1688config RT_MUTEXES
1689 boolean
1690
1691config BASE_SMALL
1692 int
1693 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1694 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1695
1696menuconfig MODULES
1697 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1698 option modules
1699 help
1700 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1701 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1702 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1703 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1704 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1705 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1706 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1707 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1708 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1709
1710 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1711 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1712 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1713 this).
1714
1715 If unsure, say Y.
1716
1717if MODULES
1718
1719config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1720 bool "Forced module loading"
1721 default n
1722 help
1723 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1724 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1725 is usually a really bad idea.
1726
1727config MODULE_UNLOAD
1728 bool "Module unloading"
1729 help
1730 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1731 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1732 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1733 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1734
1735config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1736 bool "Forced module unloading"
1737 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
1738 help
1739 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1740 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1741 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1742 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1743 If unsure, say N.
1744
1745config MODVERSIONS
1746 bool "Module versioning support"
1747 help
1748 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1749 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1750 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1751 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1752 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1753 unsure, say N.
1754
1755config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1756 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1757 help
1758 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1759 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1760 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1761 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1762 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1763 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1764 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1765
1766config MODULE_SIG
1767 bool "Module signature verification"
1768 depends on MODULES
1769 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1770 select KEYS
1771 select CRYPTO
1772 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1773 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1774 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1775 select ASN1
1776 select OID_REGISTRY
1777 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1778 help
1779 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1780 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1781 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1782
1783 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1784 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1785 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1786 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1787
1788config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1789 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1790 depends on MODULE_SIG
1791 help
1792 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1793 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1794
1795config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1796 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1797 default y
1798 depends on MODULE_SIG
1799 help
1800 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1801 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1802
1803comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1804 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1805
1806choice
1807 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1808 depends on MODULE_SIG
1809 help
1810 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1811 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1812 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1813 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1814 the signature on that module.
1815
1816config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1817 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1818 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1819
1820config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1821 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1822 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1823
1824config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1825 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1826 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1827
1828config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1829 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1830 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1831
1832config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1833 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1834 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1835
1836endchoice
1837
1838config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1839 string
1840 depends on MODULE_SIG
1841 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1842 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1843 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1844 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1845 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1846
1847endif # MODULES
1848
1849config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1850 bool
1851 help
1852 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1853 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
1854 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1855 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1856 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1857
1858config STOP_MACHINE
1859 bool
1860 default y
1861 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1862 help
1863 Need stop_machine() primitive.
1864
1865source "block/Kconfig"
1866
1867config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1868 bool
1869
1870config PADATA
1871 depends on SMP
1872 bool
1873
1874# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1875# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1876# mappings
1877config BROKEN_RODATA
1878 bool
1879
1880config ASN1
1881 tristate
1882 help
1883 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1884 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1885 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1886 functions to call on what tags.
1887
1888source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"