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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 IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
4984336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5084336466SRoland McGrath	help
5184336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5284336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5384336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5484336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5584336466SRoland McGrath
564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
574bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
584bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
594bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
604bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
614bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
624bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
634bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
654bb16672SJiri Slaby
664bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
694bb16672SJiri Slaby
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
83aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1103ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1113ebe1243SLasse Collin
1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2139361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
24419c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
28769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
28869369a70SJosh Triplett	default y
28969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
29069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
29169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
29269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
29369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
29469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
29569369a70SJosh Triplett
2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
298804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
31567640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
318939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
319939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32374c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32463c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32528a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
32674c3cbe3SAl Viro
327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
367554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
3972813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
42219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4242813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
43619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
438f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
44819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
45719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
467c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
468c903ff83SMike Travis
469c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
470e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
471e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
472c903ff83SMike Travis	help
473c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
474c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
475c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
476c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
477c903ff83SMike Travis
47828f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
479e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
480e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if PREEMPT
481f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
485bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
486bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4889fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4899fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
491e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
492e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT
50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	default n
50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	help
50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51483fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
51783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
51883fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
51983fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5218315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
52282d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney	bool
5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5268315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5278315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5288315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5298315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
53128f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5346bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5356bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5366bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5376bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
54091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
54191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
54291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
54391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5451fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
56199c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
567d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
568c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
569c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
570c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
571c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
57205c5df31SPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
573c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
574c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
575c903ff83SMike Travis	help
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
577c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5804d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5814d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5824d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5834d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
584c903ff83SMike Travis
585c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
586c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
587c903ff83SMike Travis
5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5908739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 64 if 64BIT
5918739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 32 if !64BIT
59247d631afSPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
61778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
6188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
633c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
63428f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
635c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
636c903ff83SMike Travis	help
637f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
63828f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
639f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
640c903ff83SMike Travis
64124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
64378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65421871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
65521871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
656a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
657a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
658a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
659a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
66026730f55SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT
66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66221871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
66321871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
66421871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
66521871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
66621871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
66721871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
66821871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
66921871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
67521871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
68021871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney
69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6999a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
70028f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
701be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
714a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
715a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
716a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
717a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
71934ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7213fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
722911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
723911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
724911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7254568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
726911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
727676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
728676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
731911af505SPaul E. McKenney
732911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
733911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
734911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
735911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
736911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
741676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
742676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
744911af505SPaul E. McKenney
745911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
746911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
747911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
754911af505SPaul E. McKenney
755911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
758911af505SPaul E. McKenney
759911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
760911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
761911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
762911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
769911af505SPaul E. McKenney
770911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
771911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
772911af505SPaul E. McKenney
773911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
774911af505SPaul E. McKenney
775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	bool
777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	default n
778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	help
779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
784ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  init is exec'ed.
785ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
786ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
787ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
788c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
789c903ff83SMike Travis
790de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
791de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
792de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
793de5b56baSVivek Goyal
7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
795f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
796de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
814794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
815794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
816fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
817f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
818361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
819794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
82123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
82223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
82423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
826f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
827f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
828f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
829f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
830794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
831794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
832794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
83423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
839361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
8735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
8745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
87538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
87638ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
87738ff87f7SStephen Boyd
878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
885be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
88672b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
88772b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
88872b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
88972b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
89072b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
89172b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
89272b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
89372b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
89472b252aeSMel Gorman
89572b252aeSMel Gorman#
896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
897be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
898be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
899be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
900be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9156d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
92723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9286341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9292bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
930ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
93123964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
93645ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
93745ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
938ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
939ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
940ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
94123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
94223964d2dSLi Zefan
943006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
944006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
945418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
946006cb992SPaul Menage	help
947006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
948006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
94923964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
950006cb992SPaul Menage
95123964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
952006cb992SPaul Menage
953dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
95423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
955dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
956dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
957dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
958dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
95949b786eaSAleksa Saraiconfig CGROUP_PIDS
96049b786eaSAleksa Sarai	bool "PIDs cgroup subsystem"
96149b786eaSAleksa Sarai	help
96249b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
96349b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
96449b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
96549b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
96649b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
96749b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
96849b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening.
96949b786eaSAleksa Sarai
97049b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
97149b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem),
97249b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
97349b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  attach to a cgroup.
97449b786eaSAleksa Sarai
97508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
97608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
97708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
97808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
97908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
98008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
9811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
984d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
99123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
99223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
99323964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
99423964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
99523964d2dSLi Zefan
996d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
997d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
998d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
999d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
100023964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1001d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
10023e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
10033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
10043e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
1005c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
100600f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
10073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
100879bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
100900f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
101084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
101121acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
101200f0b825SBalbir Singh
1013c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
101465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
1015c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
1016c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
1017c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1018c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1019c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1020c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1021c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1022c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1023c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1024c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1025c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1026c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
102700a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
1028627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
1029627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
1030c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
1031a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
1032c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
1033a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
1034a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
1035a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1036a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
103743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
103807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
1039a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
1040a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1041a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
104200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1043c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
104419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
104519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
1046510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
1047e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
1048e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1049e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1050e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1051e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1052e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1053e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
1054c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
105771f87beeSJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
105871f87beeSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
10592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
10602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
10612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
10622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10652bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10662bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
10702bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
1071e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
1072e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1073e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1074e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
1075e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
10762d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1077e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
1078e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
1079e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
1080e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10817c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
10827c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
10837c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10847c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10857c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10867c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10877c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10887c941438SDhaval Giani
10897c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10907c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10917c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10927c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10937c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10947c941438SDhaval Giani
1095ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1096ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1097ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1098ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1099ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1100ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1101ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1102ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1103ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1104ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1105ab84d31eSPaul Turner
11067c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
11077c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
11087c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
11097c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
11107c941438SDhaval Giani	help
11117c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
111232bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
11137c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
11147c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
11157c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
11167c941438SDhaval Giani
11177c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
11187c941438SDhaval Giani
1119afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
112032e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
112179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1122afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1123afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1126afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1127afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1128afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1130e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1131e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1132afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1133afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1134e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
113579e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
113679e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1137c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1138afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1139afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1140afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1141afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1142afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1143afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1144afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1145afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1146afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1147afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1148afc24d49SVivek Goyal
114989e9b9e0STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
115089e9b9e0STejun Heo	bool
115189e9b9e0STejun Heo	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
115289e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
115389e9b9e0STejun Heo
115423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1155c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1157067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
11582e13ba54SIago López Galeiras	select PROC_CHILDREN
1159067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1160067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1161067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1162067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1163067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1164067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1165067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1166067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1167067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11702813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1172c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1173c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1174c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1175c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1176c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1177c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
118058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
118158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
118217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
118358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
118458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
118558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
118658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1187ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1188ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
119017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1191ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1192ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1193614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1194ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1195aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
119619c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11975673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1198aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1200aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1201e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1202e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1203e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1204e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1205e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1206e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1207e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1208aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1209aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
121074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12119bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
121217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
121374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
121412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1215692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
121674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
121774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1218d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1219d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
122117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1222d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1223d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1224d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1225d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12285091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12385091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12395091faa4SMike Galbraith
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12415d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12645d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1305c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1306c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1307dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1308dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1309c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1310c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1311c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
131296fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1313c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
131431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
131531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1316c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13173a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1318c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13190847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13200847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13210847062aSRandy Dunlap
1322b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1323b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1324b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1325657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1326657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1327657a5209SMike Frysinger
1328657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1329657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1330657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1331657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1332657a5209SMike Frysinger
1333657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1334657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1335657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1336657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1337657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1338657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1339657a5209SMike Frysinger
1340657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1341657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1342657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1343657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1344657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1345657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1346657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1347657a5209SMike Frysinger
1348657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1349657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1350657a5209SMike Frysinger
1351f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1352f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1353f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1354f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13556a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1357f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1358f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1365ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13672813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1368ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1369ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1370ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1371ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13722813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13732813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13742813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13752813893fSIulia Manda	help
13762813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13772813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13782813893fSIulia Manda
13792813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13802813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13812813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13822813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13832813893fSIulia Manda
13842813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13852813893fSIulia Manda
1386f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1387f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1388f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1389f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1390f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1391f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1392f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1393f6187769SFabian Frederick
1394f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1395f6187769SFabian Frederick
13966af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13976af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
14006af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14046af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1406b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
14076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
140826a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1409c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1410b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1411b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
141213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
141313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
141413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
141513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1416b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
141713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
141813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
141913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1420b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1421c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1422ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
14246a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
143571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
143671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
143771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
143871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
143971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
144171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
144271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
144371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
144471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
144671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1447d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1448d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1449d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
145174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1452d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1453d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1454d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1455d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1456d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1457d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1458d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1459c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1461c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1462c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1463c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1464c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1465c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1466c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1467c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1468c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1469708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1470046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1471708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1473708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1474708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1475708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14768761f1abSRalf Baechle
1477e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14798761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
148015f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1481e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1482e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1483e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1484e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1485e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
149723f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
150303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
150403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
150562b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
150603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
150703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
150803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
150903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
151003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1514448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1519fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1521448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1522fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1523fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1524fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1525fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1526fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1527fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1528fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1529b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1531448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1532b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1533b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1534b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1535b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1536b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1537b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1538b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1539e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15406a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1541448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1542e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1543e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1544e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1545e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1546e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1547e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1548e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1549f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1550f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1551e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1552f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1553f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1554f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1555f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1556f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1557f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1558f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
15591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1570ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1572ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1573ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1574ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1575ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1576ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1577ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1578d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1579d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1580d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1581d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1582d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1583d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1584d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1585d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1586d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1587d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1588a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD
1589a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1590a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	select ANON_INODES
1591a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
1592a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	help
1593a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1594a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  handle page faults in userland.
1595a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1596657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1597657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1598657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1599657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1600657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1601657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1602657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1603657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1604657a5209SMike Frysinger
1605*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
1606*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1607*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1608*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1609*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1610*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1611*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1612*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1613*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
1614*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1615*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1616*5b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16176befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16186befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16195d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16206befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16216befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16226befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16236befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16246befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16256befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1626cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1628018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1629018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16300793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1631906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1632906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1633906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1634906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1635906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
163657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1638cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
163957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1640392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1641cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16424c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1643e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
164483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16450793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
164657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
164757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16480793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1649dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
165057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
165157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
165257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
165357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16540793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16550793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16580793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16590793a61dSThomas Gleixner
166057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1661dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
166257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16630793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16640793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16650793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16660793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16670793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1668906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1669906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1670906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1671cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1672906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1674906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1675906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1676906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1677906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1678906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1679906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1680906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16810793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16820793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1683f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1684f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1686f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16872aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16882aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16902aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1691f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
169241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
169341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1695f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
169641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
169741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
169841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
169941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
170041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
170141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1702b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1703b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1704b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1705b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1706b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1707b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1708b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1709692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1710b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1711b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1712b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1713b943c460SRandy Dunlap
171481819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1716a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
171781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
172181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
172281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
172434013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
172502f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
172981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
173081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
173181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
173281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
173381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
173402f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
173502f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
173681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
173781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
173981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
174081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
174137291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
174237291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
174337291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
174481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
174581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
174681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1747345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1748345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1749b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1750345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1751345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1752345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1753345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1754345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1755345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1756345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1757345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1758ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1759ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1761ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1762ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1763ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1764ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1765ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1766ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1767ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1768ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1769ea637639SJie Zhang
1770ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1771ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1772ea637639SJie Zhang
1773ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1774ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1775ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1776ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1777ea637639SJie Zhang
1778ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1779ea637639SJie Zhang
1780091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1781091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1782091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1783091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1784091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1785091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1786091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1787091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1788091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1789091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1790091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1791091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
179282c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1793091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1794091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1795091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1796091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
179782c04ff8SPeter Foley
1798125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1799b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1800125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1801125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1802125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1803125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18045f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18055f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18065f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18075f87f112SIngo Molnar#
180897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18095f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
181097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1811fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1812fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
18131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1815ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1816ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1817ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1818ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1819158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1820158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1821158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
18220f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1823158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1824158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1825ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1827ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
183366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
183511097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18540b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18550b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1856826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1857826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1858826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1859826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
186091e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
186191e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
186291e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1863826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1869f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1870f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
187419c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18830d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1903106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1904106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1905106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1906091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1907106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1908106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1909106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1910106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1911106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1912228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1913228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1914228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1915228c37ffSDavid Howells
1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1918ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1921106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1922106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1923106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1924106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1925106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1926106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1928d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1929d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1930d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1931d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1932d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1933d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1934d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1935d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1936d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1937d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1938d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1956ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1957ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1958ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1959ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1960ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1961ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1962ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1963ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1969ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1970ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
197122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
197222753674SMichal Marek	string
197322753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
197422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
197522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
197622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
197722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
197822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
197922753674SMichal Marek
1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1983beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1985b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1986b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1988b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1990b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1991b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1993b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1994b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1996b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1997b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1998b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1999beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2000beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2001beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2002beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2003beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2004beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2005beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2006beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2007beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2008beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2009beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2010beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2011beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2012beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2013beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2014beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2015beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2016beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2017beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
20180b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20190b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20206c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20216c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20226c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20236c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
202498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
202598a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
202698a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20275f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20285f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
202998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
203098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2031692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
203298a79d6aSRusty Russell
20331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
20393a65dfe8SJens Axboe
20403a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2041e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2042e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2043e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2044e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
204516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
204616295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
204716295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
204816295becSSteffen Klassert
2049754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2050754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2051754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
2052754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
2053754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
2054754b7b63SAndi Kleen
20554520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20564520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20574520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20584520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20594520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20604520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20614520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20624520c6a4SDavid Howells
20636beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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