180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 301dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 311dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 321dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 33ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 36*5a958db3SKees Cook bool 37*5a958db3SKees Cook default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 49dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 50dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 5784336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5884336466SRoland McGrath help 5984336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 6084336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 6184336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 6284336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 6384336466SRoland McGrath 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 74aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 75aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 76aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 77aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 78aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson 876e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson 942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1033ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1043ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1053ebe1243SLasse Collin 1067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 10930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 11130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1123ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1563ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1573ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1583ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1593ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1603ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1613ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1623ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1633ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1643ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1653ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin 1717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 176681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 181bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 182bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 183bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 184bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 185bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 186bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 187bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 188bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 189bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 1901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1929361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 215a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 218a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 219a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 220a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 229b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 240bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 241bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 242bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 243990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 244990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 245990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 246990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 247990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 248990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 249990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 250990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 251990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 252990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 253990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 254990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 257804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2668f827a14SWill Deacon depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 27167640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 273939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 274939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 275939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 276939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 27974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 28063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 28128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 28274c3cbe3SAl Viro 283633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 284633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 285633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 286633b4545SEric Paris help 287f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 288633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 289633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 290633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 291633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 292633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 293633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 294633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 295633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 296633b4545SEric Paris 297d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 298764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 299d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 300391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 301391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 302fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 303fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 304fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 305fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64 306fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 307fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 308fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 309fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 310fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 313fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 314fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 316fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 317fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 318391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 319391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 320391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 323391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 324391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 325391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 326391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 327391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 329391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 344391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 345391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 346391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 412c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 413c903ff83SMike Travis 414c903ff83SMike Travischoice 415c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 41631c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 417c903ff83SMike Travis 418c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 419c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 420687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 421c903ff83SMike Travis help 422c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 423c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 424c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 425c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 426c903ff83SMike Travis 427f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 428a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4298008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 430f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 431f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 432f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 433f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 434bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 435bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 436f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4379b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4389b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4398008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4409b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4419b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4429b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4439b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4449b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4459b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 446a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 447a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4488008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 449a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 450a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 451a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 452a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 453a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 454c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 455c903ff83SMike Travis 456a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 457a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 458a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 459a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 460a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 461a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 46291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 46391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 46491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 4652b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 4662b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 46791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 46891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 4692b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 4702b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 4712b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 4722b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 4732b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 474af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 4752b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 476d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 47791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 478af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 479d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 480d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 481d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 48291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 48391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 48491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 4851fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 48691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to 48791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended 48891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker quiescent states. 48991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the 49091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker full dynticks mode. 491d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 492c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 493c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 494c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 495c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 496f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 497c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 498c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 499c903ff83SMike Travis help 500c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 501c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5024d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5034d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5044d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5054d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5064d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5074d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 508c903ff83SMike Travis 509c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 510c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 511c903ff83SMike Travis 5128932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5228932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5238932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5248932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5258932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5268932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5278932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5288932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5298932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5308932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5318932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5328932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5338932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5348932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5358932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5368932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5378932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5388932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 539c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 540c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 541f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 542c903ff83SMike Travis default n 543c903ff83SMike Travis help 544c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 545c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 546c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 547c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 548c903ff83SMike Travis 549c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 550c903ff83SMike Travis 551c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 552c903ff83SMike Travis 5538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 5548bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 555b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ && SMP 5568bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 5578bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 558ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in 559ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly. 560ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the 561ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency. 5628bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 563ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't 564ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney care about real-time response. 5658bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 5668bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 5678bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 568c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 569f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 570c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 571c903ff83SMike Travis help 572f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 573f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 574f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 575c903ff83SMike Travis 57624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 57724278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 57827f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 57924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 58024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 58124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 58224278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 58324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 58424278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 58524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 58624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 58724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 58824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 58924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 59024278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 59124278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 59224278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 59324278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 59424278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 595c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 596c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 597c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 598c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 599c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 600c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 601c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 602c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 603c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 604c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 605c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 606c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 607c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 608c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 609c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 610c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 611c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 612c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 613c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 61424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 61524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 61624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 61724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 61824278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 62024278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 62224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 62324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 62424278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 62524278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 62624278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 62724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 62824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 62924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6303fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6313fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6323fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6333fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6343fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6353fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6363fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 6373fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 6383fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 6393fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6403fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 6413fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 6423fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to 6433fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded. 6443fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified 6453fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each 6463fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force 6473fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 6483fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6493fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs. 6503fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 6513fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 652c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 653c903ff83SMike Travis 6541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 655f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 673794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 674794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 675794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 676f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 677794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 678794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 679f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 680f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 681f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 682f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 683f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 684794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 685794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 686794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 6875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 693be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 694be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 695be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 696be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 697be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 698be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 699be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 700be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 701be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 702be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 703be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 704be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 705be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 706be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 707be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 708be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 709be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 710be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 711be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 712be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 713be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 714be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 716be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7171a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7181a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7191a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 7201a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7211a687c2eSMel Gorman help 7221a687c2eSMel Gorman If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7231a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 7241a687c2eSMel Gorman 725be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 726be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 727be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 728be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 729be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 730be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 731be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 732be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 733be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli it is references to the node the task is running on. 734be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 735be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 736be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 73723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 73823964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 7390dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 740ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 74123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 7425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 7435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 7445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 74645ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 74745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 748ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 749ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 750ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 75123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 75223964d2dSLi Zefan 753006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 754006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 755418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 756006cb992SPaul Menage help 757006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 758006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 75923964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 760006cb992SPaul Menage 76123964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 762006cb992SPaul Menage 763dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 76423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 765dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 766dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 767dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 768dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 76908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 77008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 77108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 77208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 77308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 77408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 7751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 778d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 78523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 78623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 78723964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 78823964d2dSLi Zefan default y 78923964d2dSLi Zefan 790d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 791d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 792d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 793d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 79423964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 795d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 796e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 797e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 798e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 799e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 80023964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 801e552b661SPavel Emelianov 802c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 80300f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 80479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 805cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 80600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 80784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 80821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 80900f0b825SBalbir Singh 81000f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 81184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 81284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 81384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 81484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 81500f0b825SBalbir Singh 81600f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 81784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 81884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 81984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 820c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 82100f0b825SBalbir Singh 822cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 823cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 824cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 825c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 82665e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 827c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 828c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 829c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 830c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 831c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 832c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 833c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 834c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 835c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 836c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 837c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 838c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 83900a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 840627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 841627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 842c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 843a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 844c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 845a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 846a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 847a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 848a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 84943d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 850a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 851a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 852a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 853a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 85400a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 855c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 856e5671dfaSGlauber Costa bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 857c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL 858510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 859e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 860e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 861e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 862e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 863e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 864e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 865e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 866c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 8692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL 8702bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8712bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8722bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 8732bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8752bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8762bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8772bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8792bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8802bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 8812bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 882e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 883e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 884e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 885e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 886e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 8872d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 888e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 889e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 890e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 891e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8927c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 8937c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 8947c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8957c941438SDhaval Giani help 8967c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8977c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8987c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8997c941438SDhaval Giani 9007c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9017c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9027c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9037c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9047c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9057c941438SDhaval Giani 906ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 907ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 908ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on EXPERIMENTAL 909ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 910ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 911ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 912ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 913ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 914ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 915ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 916ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 917ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9187c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9197c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9207c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9217c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9227c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9237c941438SDhaval Giani help 9247c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 92532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9267c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9277c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 9287c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 9297c941438SDhaval Giani 9307c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9317c941438SDhaval Giani 932afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 93332e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 93479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 935afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 936afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 937afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 938afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 939afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 940afc24d49SVivek Goyal 941afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 942afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 943e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 944e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 945afc24d49SVivek Goyal 946afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 947e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 94879e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 94979e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 950c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 951afc24d49SVivek Goyal 952afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 953afc24d49SVivek Goyal 954afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 955afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 956afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 957afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 958afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 959afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 960afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 961afc24d49SVivek Goyal 96223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 963c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 964067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 965067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 966067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 967067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 968067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 969067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 970067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 971067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 972067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 973067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 974067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 9758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 978c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 979c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 980c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 981c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 982c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 983c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 98658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 98758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 98817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 98958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 99058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 99158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 99258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 993ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 994ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 99617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 997ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 998ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 999614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1000ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1001aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 1002aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1004e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 10055673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1006e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 10075673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1008aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1009aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1010aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1011aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1012aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 101374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10149bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 101517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 101674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 101712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1018692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 101974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 102074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1021d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1022d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 102417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1025d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1026d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1027d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1028d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 10298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 10308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 1031e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED 1032e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known 1033e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t 1034e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with 1035e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # the user namespace. 1036e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman bool 1037e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman default y 1038e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1039e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Networking 1040e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NET_9P = n 1041e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1042e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Filesystems 1043e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on 9P_FS = n 1044e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on AFS_FS = n 1045e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CEPH_FS = n 1046e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CIFS = n 1047e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CODA_FS = n 1048e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on GFS2_FS = n 1049e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NCP_FS = n 1050e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NFSD = n 1051e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NFS_FS = n 1052e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on OCFS2_FS = n 1053e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on XFS_FS = n 1054e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 10555673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 10565673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1057e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 10585673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 10595673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 10605673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 10615673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 10625673a94cSEric W. Biederman 10635673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 10645673a94cSEric W. Biederman 10655091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10665091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10675091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 10685091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10695091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10705091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10715091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10725091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10735091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10745091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10755091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10765091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10775091faa4SMike Galbraith 10787af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10817af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10825d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10977af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11047af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11055d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11087af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11097af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11107af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11117af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11127af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11137af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11147af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11157af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11167af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11177af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11187af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11197af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11207af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 11217af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11227af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11237af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11247af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11257af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11267af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11277af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11287af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1130f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1131f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1132f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1133f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1134f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1135f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1136f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1137f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1138f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1139f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1140f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1141f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1142f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1143f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1144f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1145f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1146c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1147c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1148dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1149dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1150c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1151c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1152c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 115396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1154c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1155c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1156c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1157c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1158775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 1159c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11600847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11610847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11620847062aSRandy Dunlap 1163b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1164b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1165b943c460SRandy Dunlap 11666a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1168f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1169f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1176af1839ebSCatalin Marinasconfig HAVE_UID16 1177af1839ebSCatalin Marinas bool 1178af1839ebSCatalin Marinas 1179ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1181af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1182ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1183ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1184ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1185ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1186b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 118826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1189c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1190b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1191b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 119213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 119313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 119413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 119513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1196b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 119713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 119813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 119913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1200b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1201c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1202ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12037ac57a89SCatalin Marinasconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 12047ac57a89SCatalin Marinas bool 12057ac57a89SCatalin Marinas help 12067ac57a89SCatalin Marinas Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 12077ac57a89SCatalin Marinas 12081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 12096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 122071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 122171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 122271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 122371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 122471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 122671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 122771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 122871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 122971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 123171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1232d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1233712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 123445f035abSGreg Kroah-Hartman def_bool y 1235712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1236d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1237d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1239d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1240d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1241d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1242d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1243d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1244d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1245d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1246c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1248c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1249c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1250c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1251c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1252c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1253c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1254c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1255c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1256708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1257046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1258708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1260708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1261708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1262708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12638761f1abSRalf Baechle 1264e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12668761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 126715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1268e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1269e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1270e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1271e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1272e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12738761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12748761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 12758761f1abSRalf Baechle 12761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 128723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1296448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1301fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1303448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1304fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1305fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1306fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1307fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1308fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1309fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1310fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1311b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1313448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1314b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1315b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1316b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1317b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1318b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1319b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1320b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1321e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1323448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1324e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1325e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1326e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1327e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1328e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1329e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1330e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1342ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1344ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1345ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1346ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1347ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1348ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1349ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 13506befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 13516befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 13526befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 13536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 13546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 13556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 13566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 13576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1358cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 13590793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1360018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1361018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 13620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1363906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1364906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1365906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1366906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1367906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 136857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 13690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1370cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 137157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1372392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1373cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 13744c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1375e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13760793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 137757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 137857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 13790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1380dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 138157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 138257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 138357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 138457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 13850793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 13860793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 13870793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 13880793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 13890793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 13900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 139157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1392dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 139357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 13940793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 13950793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 13960793a61dSThomas Gleixner 13970793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 13980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1399906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1400906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1401906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1402906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1403906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1404906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1405906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1406906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1407906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1408906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1409906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1410906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1411906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14120793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14130793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1414f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1415f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1417f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14182aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14192aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14206a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14212aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1422f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 14233d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 14243d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 142661cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 14273d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 14283d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 14293d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 14303d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 14313d137310SThomas Petazzoni 143241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 143341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1435f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 143641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 143741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 143841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 143941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 144041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 144141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1442b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1443b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1444b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1445b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1446b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1447b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1448b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1449692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1450b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1451b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1452b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1453b943c460SRandy Dunlap 145481819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 145581819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1456a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 145781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 145881819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 145981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 146081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 146181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 146281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 146381819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 146434013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 146502f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 146681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 146781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 146881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 146981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 147081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 147181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 147281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 147381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 147402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 147502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 147681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 147781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 147981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 148081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 148137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 148237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 148337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 148481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 148581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 148681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1487ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1488ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 14896a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1490ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1491ea637639SJie Zhang help 1492ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1493ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1494ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1495ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1496ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1497ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1498ea637639SJie Zhang 1499ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1500ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1501ea637639SJie Zhang 1502ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1503ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1504ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1505ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1506ea637639SJie Zhang 1507ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1508ea637639SJie Zhang 1509125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1510b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1511125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1512125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1513125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1514125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 15155f87f112SIngo Molnar# 15165f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 15175f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 15185f87f112SIngo Molnar# 151997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 15205f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 152197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1522fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1523fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 15241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1526ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1527ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1528ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1529ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1530158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1531158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1532158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 15330f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1534158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1535158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1536ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1537ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1538ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 154466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15640b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 15650b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1566826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1567826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1568826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1569826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 157091e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 157191e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 157291e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1573826e4506SLinus Torvalds 15741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1579f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1580f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 15930d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1613106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1614106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1615106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 161648ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 161748ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 161848ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 161948ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 162048ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 162148ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 162248ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 162348ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1624106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1625106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1626106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1627106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1628106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1629ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1630ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1631ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1632ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1633ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1634106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1635106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1636106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1637106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1638106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1639106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1640ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1641ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1642ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1643ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1644ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1645ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1646ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1647ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1648ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1649ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1650ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1651ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1652ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1653ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1654ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1655ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1656ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1657ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1658ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1659ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1660ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1661ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1662ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1663ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1664ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1665ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1666ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1667ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1668ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1669ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1670ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1671ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1672ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 16730b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 16740b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 167598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 167698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 167798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 16785f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 16795f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 168098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 168198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1682692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 168398a79d6aSRusty Russell 16841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 16903a65dfe8SJens Axboe 16913a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1692e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1693e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1694e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1695e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 169616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 169716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 169816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 169916295becSSteffen Klassert 1700754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1701754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1702754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1703754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1704754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1705754b7b63SAndi Kleen 17064520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 17074520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 17084520c6a4SDavid Howells help 17094520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 17104520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 17114520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 17124520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 17134520c6a4SDavid Howells 17146beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1715