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 264990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 265990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 267990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 268990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 278804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 285*7a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 286*7a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 287*7a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 290*7a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 29567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 297939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 298939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 299939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 300939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 30674c3cbe3SAl Viro 307d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 308764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 309d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 310391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 311391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 312abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 313abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 314abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 316fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 317fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 31802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 319fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 320fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 321fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 323c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 324fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 325fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 329fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 332391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 333c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 335391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 337391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 340391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 341391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 342391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 344abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 346ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 347554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 348abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 353abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 364c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 40119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 41419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 42519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 43419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 444c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 445c903ff83SMike Travis 446c903ff83SMike Travischoice 447c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 44831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 449c903ff83SMike Travis 450c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 451c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 452687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 453016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 454c903ff83SMike Travis help 455c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 456c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 457c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 458c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 459c903ff83SMike Travis 460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 461a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4629fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 46353614714SJames Hogan select IRQ_WORK 464f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 465f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 466f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 467f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 468bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 469bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 470f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4719fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4729fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4758008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4769b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4779b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4789b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4799b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4809b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4819b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 482c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 483c903ff83SMike Travis 484a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 485127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 486a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 487a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 488a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 489a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 4906bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 4916bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 4926bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 4936bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 4946bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 4956bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 4966bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 4976bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 49891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 49991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 50091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5012b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5022b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 50391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 50491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5052b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5062b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5072b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5082b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5092b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 510af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5112b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 512d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 514af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 515d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 516d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 517d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 51891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 51991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 52091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 521d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5221fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 523d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 524d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 525d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 526d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 527d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 528d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 529d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 530d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 531d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 532d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 533d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 534d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 535d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 536d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 537d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 538d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an 539d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 540d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 541d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 544d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 545c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 546c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 547c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 548c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 549f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 550c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 551c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 552c903ff83SMike Travis help 553c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 554c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5554d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5564d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5574d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5584d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5594d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5604d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 561c903ff83SMike Travis 562c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 563c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 564c903ff83SMike Travis 5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5668932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5678932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5688932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5698932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5708932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5718932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5728932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5738932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5748932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5788932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5798932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5808932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5818932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5828932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5868932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5878932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 592c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 593c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 594f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 595c903ff83SMike Travis default n 596c903ff83SMike Travis help 597c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 598c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 599c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 600c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 601c903ff83SMike Travis 602c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 603c903ff83SMike Travis 604c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 605c903ff83SMike Travis 6068bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6078bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6083451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6098bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6108bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 611c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 612c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 613c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 614c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 615c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 616c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 617c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6218bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6228bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6238bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 624c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 625f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 626c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 627c903ff83SMike Travis help 628f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 629f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 630f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 631c903ff83SMike Travis 63224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 63324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 63427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 63524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 63624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 63724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 63824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 63924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 651c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 652c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 653c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 654c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 655c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 656c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 657c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 658c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 659c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 660c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 661c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 662c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 663c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 664c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 665c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 67524278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 67624278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6863fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6879a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6883fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6893fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6903fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6913fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6923fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 6933fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 6943fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 6953fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6963fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 6973fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 698a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 699a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 700a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 701a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 702a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 703a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 704a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 70634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 709911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 710911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 711911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 712911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 713676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 714676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 715676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 716676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 717911af505SPaul E. McKenney 718911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 719911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 72073c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 721911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 722911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 723911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 724676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 725676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 726676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 727676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 728676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney 732911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 733911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 73473c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 735911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 741676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 746911af505SPaul E. McKenney 747911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 748911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 749911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 750911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 754676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 755676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 758911af505SPaul E. McKenney 759911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 760911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 761911af505SPaul E. McKenney 762911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 763911af505SPaul E. McKenney 764c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 765c903ff83SMike Travis 7661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 767f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 785794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 786794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 787794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 788f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 789794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 790794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 791f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 792f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 793f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 794f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 795f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 796794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 797794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 798794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 7995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 812be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 813be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 814be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 815be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 816be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 817be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 818be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 819be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 820be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 821be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 822be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 823be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 824be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 825be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 826be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 827be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8381a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8391a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8401a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 8411a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8421a687c2eSMel Gorman help 8436d56a410SPaul Gortmaker If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8441a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 8451a687c2eSMel Gorman 846be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 847be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 848be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 849be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 852be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 853be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8546d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 85823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 85923964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 8600dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 861ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 86223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 86745ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 86845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 869ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 870ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 871ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 87223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 87323964d2dSLi Zefan 874006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 875006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 876418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 877006cb992SPaul Menage help 878006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 879006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 88023964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 881006cb992SPaul Menage 88223964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 883006cb992SPaul Menage 884dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 88523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 886dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 887dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 888dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 889dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 89008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 89108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 89208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 89308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 89408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 89508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 8961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 899d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 90623964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 90723964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 90823964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 90923964d2dSLi Zefan default y 91023964d2dSLi Zefan 911d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 912d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 913d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 914d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 91523964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 916d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 917e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 918e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 919e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 920e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 92123964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 922e552b661SPavel Emelianov 923c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 92400f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 92579ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 926cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 92700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 92884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 92921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 93000f0b825SBalbir Singh 93100f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 93284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 933f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 93484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 93584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 93600f0b825SBalbir Singh 93700f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 93884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 93984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 94084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 941c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 94200f0b825SBalbir Singh 943cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 944cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 945cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 946c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 94765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 948c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 949c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 950c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 951c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 952c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 953c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 954c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 955c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 956c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 957c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 958c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 959c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 96000a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 961627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 962627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 963c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 964a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 965c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 966a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 967a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 968a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 969a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 97043d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 97107555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 972a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 973a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 974a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 97500a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 976c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 97719c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 97819c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 979510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 980e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 981e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 982e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 983e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 984e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 985e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 986e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 987c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9882bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9892bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 99019c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 9912bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9922bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9932bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 9942bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9952bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9962bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9972bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9982bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10002bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10012bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1003e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1004e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1005e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1006e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1007e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10082d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1009e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1010e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1011e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1012e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10137c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10147c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10157c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10167c941438SDhaval Giani help 10177c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10187c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10197c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10207c941438SDhaval Giani 10217c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10227c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10237c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10247c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10257c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10267c941438SDhaval Giani 1027ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1028ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1029ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1030ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1031ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1032ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1033ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1034ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1035ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1036ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1037ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10387c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10397c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10407c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10417c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10427c941438SDhaval Giani help 10437c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 104432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10457c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10467c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10477c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10487c941438SDhaval Giani 10497c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10507c941438SDhaval Giani 1051afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 105232e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 105379ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1054afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1055afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1056afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1057afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1058afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1059afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1060afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1062e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1063e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1064afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1065afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1066e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 106779e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 106879e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1069c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1070afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1071afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1073afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1074afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1075afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1076afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1077afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1078afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1079afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1080afc24d49SVivek Goyal 108123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1082c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1083067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1084067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1085067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1086067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1087067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1088067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1089067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1090067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1091067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1092067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1093067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 10948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10966a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1097c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1098c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1099c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1100c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1101c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1102c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 110558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 110658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 110717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 110858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 110958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 111058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 111158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1112ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1113ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 111517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1116ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1117ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1118614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1119ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1120aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 112119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11225673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1123e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11245673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1125aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1126aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1127aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1128e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1129e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1130e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1131e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1132e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1133e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1134e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1135aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1136aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 113774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11389bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 113917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 114074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 114112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1142692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 114374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 114474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1145d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1146d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 114817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1149d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1150d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1151d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1152d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11538dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11555673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 11565673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 11575673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 11585673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 11595673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 11605673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 11615673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11625673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 11635673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11645091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11655091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11665091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 11675091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11685091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11695091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11705091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11715091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11725091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11735091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11745091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11755091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11765091faa4SMike Galbraith 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11815d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12045d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1231f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1232f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1233f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1234f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1235f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1236f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1240f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1241f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1242f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1243f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1244f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1245c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1246c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1247dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1248dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1249c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1250c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1251c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125296fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1253c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1254c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1255c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1256c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12573a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1258c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12590847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12600847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12610847062aSRandy Dunlap 1262b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1263b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1264b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1265657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1266657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1267657a5209SMike Frysinger 1268657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1269657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1270657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1271657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1272657a5209SMike Frysinger 1273657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1276657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger 1280657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1281657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1283657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger 12916a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1293f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1294f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1301ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1303af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1304ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1305ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1306ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1307ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1308b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 131026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1311c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1312b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1313b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 131413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 131513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 131613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 131713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1318b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 131913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 132013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 132113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1322b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1323c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1324ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 133771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 133871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 133971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 134071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 134171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 134471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 134571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 134671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1349d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1350d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1351d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 135374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1354d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1355d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1356d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1357d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1358d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1359d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1360d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1361c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1363c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1364c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1365c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1366c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1367c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1368c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1369c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1370c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1371708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1372046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1373708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1375708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1376708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1377708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13788761f1abSRalf Baechle 1379e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13818761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 138215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1383e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1384e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1385e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1386e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1387e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 139923f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1408448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1413fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1415448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1416fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1417fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1418fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1419fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1420fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1421fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1422fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1423b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1425448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1426b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1427b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1428b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1429b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1430b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1431b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1432b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1433e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1435448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1436e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1437e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1438e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1439e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1440e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1441e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1442e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1454ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1456ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1457ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1458ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1459ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1460ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1461ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1462657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1469657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger 14716befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14786befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1479cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14800793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1481018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1482018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1484906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1485906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1486906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1487906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1488906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 148957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1491cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 149257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1493392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1494cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14954c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1496e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14970793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 149857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 149957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1501dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 150257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 150357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 150457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 150557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15060793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15070793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15080793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15090793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15100793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 151257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1513dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 151457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15150793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15180793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1520906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1521906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1522906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1523906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1524906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1525906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1526906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1527906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1528906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1529906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1530906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1531906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1532906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15330793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1535f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1536f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1538f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15402aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15416a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1543f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 154441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 154541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1547f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 154841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 154941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 155041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 155141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 155241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 155341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1554b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1555b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1556b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1557b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1558b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1559b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1560b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1561692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1562b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1563b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1564b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1565b943c460SRandy Dunlap 156681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 156781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1568a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 156981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 157181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 157381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 157481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157581819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 157634013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 157702f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 157881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 158081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 158181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158281819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 158381819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 158481819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 158581819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 158602f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 158702f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 158881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 158981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15906a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 159281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159337291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 159437291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 159537291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 159681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 159881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1599345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1600345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1601b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1602345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1603345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1604345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1605345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1606345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1607345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1608345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1609345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1610ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1611ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16126a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1613ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1614ea637639SJie Zhang help 1615ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1616ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1617ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1618ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1619ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1620ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1621ea637639SJie Zhang 1622ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1623ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1624ea637639SJie Zhang 1625ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1626ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1627ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1628ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1629ea637639SJie Zhang 1630ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1631ea637639SJie Zhang 1632125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1633b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1634125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1635125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1636125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1637125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16395f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16405f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16415f87f112SIngo Molnar# 164297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16435f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 164497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1645fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1646fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1649ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1650ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1651ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1652ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1653158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1654158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1655158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16560f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1657158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1658158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1659ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1660ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1661ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1667b56e5a17SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1668b56e5a17SDavid Howells bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 1669b56e5a17SDavid Howells depends on KEYS 1670b56e5a17SDavid Howells help 1671b56e5a17SDavid Howells Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 1672b56e5a17SDavid Howells the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 1673b56e5a17SDavid Howells by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 1674b56e5a17SDavid Howells userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 1675b56e5a17SDavid Howells keys already in the keyring. 1676b56e5a17SDavid Howells 1677b56e5a17SDavid Howells Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 1678b56e5a17SDavid Howells 167966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 168111097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17000b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17010b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1702826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1703826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1704826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1705826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 170691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 170791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 170891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1709826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1715f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1716f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 172019c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17290d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1749106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1750106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1751106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1752b56e5a17SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 175348ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 175448ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 175548ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 175648ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 175748ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 175848ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 175948ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 176048ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1764106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1765106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1768ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1770ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1771106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1772106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1773106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1774106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1775106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1776106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1777ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1778d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1779d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1780d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1781d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1782d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1783d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1784d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1785d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1786d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1787d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1788d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1789ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1790ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1791ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1796ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1797ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1798ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1799ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1800ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1808ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1809ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1810ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1811ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1812ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1813ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1814ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1815ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1816ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1817ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1818ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1819ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1820ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 182122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 182222753674SMichal Marek string 182322753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 182422753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 182522753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 182622753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 182722753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 182822753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 182922753674SMichal Marek 18300b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18310b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 183298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 183398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 183498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18355f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18365f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 183798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 183898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1839692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 184098a79d6aSRusty Russell 18411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 18473a65dfe8SJens Axboe 18483a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1849e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1850e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1851e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1852e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 185316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 185416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 185516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 185616295becSSteffen Klassert 1857754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1858754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1859754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1860754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1861754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1862754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18634520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18644520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18654520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18664520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18674520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18684520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18694520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18704520c6a4SDavid Howells 18716beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1872