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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
4984336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5084336466SRoland McGrath	help
5184336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5284336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5384336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5484336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5584336466SRoland McGrath
564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
574bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
594bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
604bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
614bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
624bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
634bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
654bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
664bb16672SJiri Slaby
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
694bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
704bb16672SJiri Slaby
711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
81aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
83aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
84ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
86aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
876e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
89aaebf433SRyan Anderson
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1113ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1123ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1133ebe1243SLasse Collin
1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1157dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
118e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
119e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1232d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1650a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1673ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1803ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1813ebe1243SLasse Collin
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1860a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
187681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2159361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
238a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
24619c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
252b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
271226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
273a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
274226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
275226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
277f76be617SAndi Kleen	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
279f76be617SAndi Kleen	default y
280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
287990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
28969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
29069369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
291b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
29269369a70SJosh Triplett	help
29369369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
29469369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
29569369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
29669369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
29769369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
29869369a70SJosh Triplett
2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
301804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
305cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
306cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3087a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3097a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
312cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3137a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
315939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
316939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
317939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
318939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32174c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32263c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
32474c3cbe3SAl Viro
325d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
326764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
329391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
33602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
341c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
351c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
364ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
365554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
380b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
381b58c3584SRik van Riel
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
384b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
3952813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
42019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4222813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
43419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
436f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
44619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
45519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
465c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
466c903ff83SMike Travis
467c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
468e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
469e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
470c903ff83SMike Travis	help
471c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
472c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
473c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
474c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
475c903ff83SMike Travis
47628f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
477e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
478e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if PREEMPT
479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
481f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
483bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
484bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
485f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4869fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4879fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
489e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
490e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
49778cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT
49878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	default n
50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	help
50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51283fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
51383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
51483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
51783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
51883fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5198315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
52082d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney	bool
5218315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
522570dd3c7SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !UML
52383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5248315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5268315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5278315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5288315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5296bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
53028f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5316bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5346bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5356bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5366bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
53791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
54091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
54191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
54291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5441fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
56099c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
566d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
567c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
568c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
569c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
570c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
57105c5df31SPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
572c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
573c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
574c903ff83SMike Travis	help
575c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5774d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5804d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5814d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5824d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
583c903ff83SMike Travis
584c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
585c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
586c903ff83SMike Travis
5878932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5898739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 64 if 64BIT
5908739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 32 if !64BIT
59147d631afSPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
61678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
6178bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
627c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
632c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
63328f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
634c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
635c903ff83SMike Travis	help
636f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
63728f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
638f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
639c903ff83SMike Travis
64024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
64278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65321871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
65421871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
655a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
656a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
657a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
658a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
65926730f55SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT
66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66121871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
66221871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
66321871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
66421871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
66521871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
66621871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
66721871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
66821871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
67421871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
67921871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
680c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6973fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6989a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
69928f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
700be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
714a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
715a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
716a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
71834ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7193fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
721911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
722911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
723911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7244568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
725911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
726676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
727676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
728676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
730911af505SPaul E. McKenney
731911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
732911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
733911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
734911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
735911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
741676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
742676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
743911af505SPaul E. McKenney
744911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
745911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
746911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
753911af505SPaul E. McKenney
754911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
755676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
757911af505SPaul E. McKenney
758911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
759911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
760911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
761911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
768911af505SPaul E. McKenney
769911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
770911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
771911af505SPaul E. McKenney
772911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
773911af505SPaul E. McKenney
774ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	bool
776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	default n
777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	help
778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  init is exec'ed.
784ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
785ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
786ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
787c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
788c903ff83SMike Travis
789de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
790de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
791de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
792de5b56baSVivek Goyal
7931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
794f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
795de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
813794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
814794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
815fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
816f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
817361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
818794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
82123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
82223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
826f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
827f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
828f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
829794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
830794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
831794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
83223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8342240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
83523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
838361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
8575e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
8585e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
868427934b8SPetr Mladekconfig NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
869427934b8SPetr Mladek	int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
870427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
871427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
872427934b8SPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK_NMI
873427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
874427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
875427934b8SPetr Mladek	  stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
876427934b8SPetr Mladek	  to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
877427934b8SPetr Mladek
878427934b8SPetr Mladek	  NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
879427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
880427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
881427934b8SPetr Mladek
882427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
883427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
884427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
885427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
886427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
887427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
888427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
889427934b8SPetr Mladek
8905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
8945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
8955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
89638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
89738ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
89838ff87f7SStephen Boyd
899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
906be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
90772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
90872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
90972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
91072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
91172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
91272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
91372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
91472b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
91572b252aeSMel Gorman
91672b252aeSMel Gorman#
917be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
918be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
919be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
920be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
921be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9366d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9466f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9476f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
94823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9496341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9502bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
951ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
95223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
9579991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
95845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
959ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
960ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
961ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
96223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
96323964d2dSLi Zefan
9643e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9653e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
9663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
967c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
968a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9693e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
97079bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
97100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
972a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
97300f0b825SBalbir Singh
974c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
976c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
977c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
978a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
979a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
980c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
981a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
982c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
983a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
984a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
985a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
986a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
98743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
98807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
989a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
990a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
991a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
99200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
993c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9972bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
10022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1007e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10149991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
1028e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10297c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1030a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
10317c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10327c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10337c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10347c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10357c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10367c941438SDhaval Giani
10377c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10387c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10397c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10407c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10417c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10427c941438SDhaval Giani
1043ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1044ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1045ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1046ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1047ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1048ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1050ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1051ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1052ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1053ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10547c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10557c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10567c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10577c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10587c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10597c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
106032bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10617c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10627c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10637c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10647c941438SDhaval Giani
10657c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10667c941438SDhaval Giani
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10766cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
10796cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1091489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1092489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1093489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1098afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1109afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1117afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
112389e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
112489e9b9e0STejun Heo
11256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Example controller"
11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  debugging information about the cgroups framework.
11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
115623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1157c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1158067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1159067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
11602e13ba54SIago López Galeiras	select PROC_CHILDREN
1161067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1162067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1163067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1164067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1165067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1166067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1167067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1168067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1169067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11708dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11722813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1174c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1175c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1176c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1177c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1178c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1179c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11818dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
118258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
118358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
118417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
118558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
118658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
118758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
118858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1189ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1190ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
119217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1193ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1194ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1195614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1196ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1197aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
119819c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11995673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1200aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1201aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1202aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1203e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1204e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1205d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1206d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1207d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1208e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1209aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1210aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
121174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12129bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
121317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
121474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
121512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1216692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
121774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
121874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1219d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1220d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
122217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1223d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1224d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1225d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1226d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12295091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12385091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12395091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12405091faa4SMike Galbraith
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12425d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12655d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1306c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1307c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1308dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1309dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1310c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1311c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1312877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1313877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1314877417e6SArnd Bergmann	default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1315877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1316877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1317877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1318877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1319877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1320877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1321877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1322877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1323c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
132496fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1325c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
132631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
132731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1328c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13293a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1330c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1331877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1332877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13330847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13340847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13350847062aSRandy Dunlap
1336b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1337b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1338b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1339657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1340657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1341657a5209SMike Frysinger
1342657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1343657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1344657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1345657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1346657a5209SMike Frysinger
1347657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1348657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1349657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1350657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1351657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1352657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1353657a5209SMike Frysinger
1354657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1355657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1356657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1357657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1358657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1359657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1360657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1361657a5209SMike Frysinger
1362657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1363657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1364657a5209SMike Frysinger
1365f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1366f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1367f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1368f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13696a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13706a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1371f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1372f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1379ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13812813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1382ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1383ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1384ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1385ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13862813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13872813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13882813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13892813893fSIulia Manda	help
13902813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13912813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13922813893fSIulia Manda
13932813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13942813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13952813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13962813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13972813893fSIulia Manda
13982813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13992813893fSIulia Manda
1400f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1401f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1402f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1403f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1404f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1405f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1406f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1407f6187769SFabian Frederick
1408f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1409f6187769SFabian Frederick
14106af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14116af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
14136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
14146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14156af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14176af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14186af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1420b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
14216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
142226a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1423c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1424b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1425b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
142613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
142713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
142813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
142913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1430b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
143113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
143213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
143313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1434b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1435c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1436ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
14386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
144971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
145071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
145171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
145271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
145371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
145571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
145671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
145771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
145871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
146071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1461d59745ceSMatt Mackall
14624d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
14634d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	bool
1464076501ffSRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
14654d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	default X86_64 && SMP
14664d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel
14672213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
14682213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	bool
14692213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	depends on KALLSYMS
14702213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
14712213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	help
14722213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
14732213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
14742213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
14752213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
14762213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
14772213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
14782213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  address encountered in the image.
14792213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
14802213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
14812213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
14822213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
14832213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
14842213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
1485d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1486d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
148874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1489d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1490d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1491d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1492d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1493d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1494d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1495d59745ceSMatt Mackall
149642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
149742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
149842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
149942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
150042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1501c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15026a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1503c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1504c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1505c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1506c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1507c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1508c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1509c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1510c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1511708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1512046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1513708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1515708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1516708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1517708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15188761f1abSRalf Baechle
1519e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15218761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
152215f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1523e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1524e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1525e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1526e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1527e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
153923f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
154503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
154762b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
154803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
154903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
155003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
155103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
155203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1556448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1561fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1563448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1564fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1565fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1566fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1567fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1568fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1569fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1570fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1571b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1573448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1574b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1575b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1576b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1577b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1578b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1579b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1580b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1581e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1583448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1584e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1585e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1586e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1587e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1588e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1589e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1590e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1591f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1592f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1593e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1594f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1595f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1596f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1597f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1598f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1599f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1600f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
16011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16026a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1612ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16136a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1614ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1615ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1616ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1617ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1618ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1619ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1620d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1621d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1622d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1623d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1624d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1625d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1626d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1627d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1628d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1629d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1630a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD
1631a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1632a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	select ANON_INODES
1633a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
1634a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	help
1635a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1636a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  handle page faults in userland.
1637a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1638657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1639657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1640657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1641657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1642657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1643657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1644657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1645657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1646657a5209SMike Frysinger
16475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16596befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16615d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16626befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16646befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16656befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16666befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1668cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16690793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1670018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1671018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16720793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1674906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1675906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1676906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1677906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
167857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1680cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
168157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1682392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1683cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16844c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1685e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
168683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16870793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
168857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
168957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16900793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1691dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
169257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
169357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
169457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
169557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
17000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17010793a61dSThomas Gleixner
170257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1703dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
170457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17070793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17080793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17090793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1710906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1711906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1712906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1713cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1715906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1716906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1717906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1720906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1721906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1722906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17230793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17240793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1725f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1726f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1728f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17302aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17316a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1733f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
173441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
173541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1737f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
173841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
173941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
174041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
174141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
174241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
174341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1744b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1745b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1746b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1747b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1748b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1749b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1750b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1751692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1752b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1753b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1754b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1755b943c460SRandy Dunlap
175681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
175781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1758a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
175981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
176081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
176181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
176281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
176381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
176481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
176581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
176634013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
176702f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
176881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
176981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
177081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
177181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
177281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
177381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
177481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
177581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
177602f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
177702f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
177881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
177981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
178181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
178281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
178337291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
178437291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
178537291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
178681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
178781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
178881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1789c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1790c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1791210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1792c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1793c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1794210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1795c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1796c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1797c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
1798345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1799345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1800b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1801345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1802345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1803345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1804345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1805345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1806345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1807345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1808345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1809ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1810ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1812ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1813ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1814ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1815ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1816ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1817ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1818ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1819ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1820ea637639SJie Zhang
1821ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1822ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1823ea637639SJie Zhang
1824ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1825ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1826ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1827ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1828ea637639SJie Zhang
1829ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1830ea637639SJie Zhang
1831091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1832091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1833091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1834091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1835091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1836d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1837091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1838091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1839091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1840091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1841091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1842091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
184382c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1844091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1845091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1846091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1847091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
184882c04ff8SPeter Foley
1849125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1850b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1851125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1852125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1853125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1854125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18555f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18565f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18575f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18585f87f112SIngo Molnar#
185997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18605f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
186197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1862fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1863fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
18641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1866ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1867ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1868ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1869ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1870158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1871158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1872158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
18730f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1874158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1875158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1876ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18776341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1878ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
188466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
188611097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19050b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
19060b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1907826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1908826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1909826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1910826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
191191e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
191291e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
191391e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1914826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1920f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1921f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
192519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19340d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1954106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1955106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1956106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1957091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1958106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1959106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1960106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1961106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1962106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1963228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1964228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1965228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1966228c37ffSDavid Howells
1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1969ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1970ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1971ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1972106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1973106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1974106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1975106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1976106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1977106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1979d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1980d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1981d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1982d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1983d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1984d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1985d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1986d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1987d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1988d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1989d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2009ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2010ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2011ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2012ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2013ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2014ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2015ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2016ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2017ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2019ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2020ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2021ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
202222753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
202322753674SMichal Marek	string
202422753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
202522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
202622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
202722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
202822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
202922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
203022753674SMichal Marek
2031beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2032beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2033beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2034beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2036b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2037b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2038beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2039b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2041b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2042b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2044b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2045b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2046beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2047b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2048b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2049b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2050beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2052beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2053beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2054beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2055beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2056beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2057beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2058beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2064beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2065beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2066beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2067beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2068beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2069dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2070dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2071dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2072dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2073dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2074dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2075dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2076dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2077dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2078dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2079dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2080dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2081dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2082dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2083*f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2084dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20850b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20860b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20876c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20886c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20896c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20906c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
209198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
209298a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
209398a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20945f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20955f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
209698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
209798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2098692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
209998a79d6aSRusty Russell
21003a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2101e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2102e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2103e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2104e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
210516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
210616295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
210716295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
210816295becSSteffen Klassert
2109754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2110754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2111754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
2112754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
2113754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
2114754b7b63SAndi Kleen
21154520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21164520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21174520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21184520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21194520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21204520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21214520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21224520c6a4SDavid Howells
21236beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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