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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