1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 27 bool 28 29menu "General setup" 30 31config BROKEN 32 bool 33 34config BROKEN_ON_SMP 35 bool 36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 37 default y 38 39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 40 int 41 default 32 if !UML 42 default 128 if UML 43 help 44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 46 47 48config CROSS_COMPILE 49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 50 help 51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 55 56config COMPILE_TEST 57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 58 default n 59 help 60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 64 drivers to compile-test them. 65 66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 68 drivers to be distributed. 69 70config LOCALVERSION 71 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 72 help 73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 74 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 78 be a maximum of 64 characters. 79 80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82 default y 83 help 84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 86 top of tree revision. 87 88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92 93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 94 by running the command: 95 96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 97 98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99 100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 101 bool 102 103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 104 bool 105 106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 107 bool 108 109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 110 bool 111 112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 113 bool 114 115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116 bool 117 118choice 119 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 120 default KERNEL_GZIP 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 122 help 123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 128 129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 132 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 133 134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 136 size matters less. 137 138 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 139 140config KERNEL_GZIP 141 bool "Gzip" 142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 143 help 144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 145 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 146 147config KERNEL_BZIP2 148 bool "Bzip2" 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 150 help 151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 156 157config KERNEL_LZMA 158 bool "LZMA" 159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 160 help 161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 164 165config KERNEL_XZ 166 bool "XZ" 167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 168 help 169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 175 176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 178 and LZO. Compression is slow. 179 180config KERNEL_LZO 181 bool "LZO" 182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 183 help 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 187 188config KERNEL_LZ4 189 bool "LZ4" 190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191 help 192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195 196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198 faster than LZO. 199 200endchoice 201 202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203 string "Default hostname" 204 default "(none)" 205 help 206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209 system more usable with less configuration. 210 211config SWAP 212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK 214 default y 215 help 216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 219 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 220 221config SYSVIPC 222 bool "System V IPC" 223 ---help--- 224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 230 you'll need to say Y here. 231 232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 235 236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237 bool 238 depends on SYSVIPC 239 depends on SYSCTL 240 default y 241 242config POSIX_MQUEUE 243 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 244 depends on NET 245 ---help--- 246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 251 252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 254 operations on message queues. 255 256 If unsure, say Y. 257 258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259 bool 260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261 depends on SYSCTL 262 default y 263 264config FHANDLE 265 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266 select EXPORTFS 267 help 268 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274 syscalls. 275 276config AUDIT 277 bool "Auditing support" 278 depends on NET 279 help 280 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 281 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 282 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 283 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 284 285config AUDITSYSCALL 286 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 287 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PARISC || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 288 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 289 help 290 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 291 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 292 such as SELinux. 293 294config AUDIT_WATCH 295 def_bool y 296 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 297 select FSNOTIFY 298 299config AUDIT_TREE 300 def_bool y 301 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 302 select FSNOTIFY 303 304config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 305 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 306 depends on AUDIT 307 help 308 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 309 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 310 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 311 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 312 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 313 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 314 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 315 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 316 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 317 318source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 319source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 320 321menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 322 323config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 324 bool 325 326choice 327 prompt "Cputime accounting" 328 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 329 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 330 331# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 332config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 334 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 335 help 336 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 337 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 338 granularity. 339 340 If unsure, say Y. 341 342config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 343 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 344 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 345 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 346 help 347 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 348 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 349 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 350 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 351 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 352 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 353 systems. 354 355config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 356 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 357 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 358 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 359 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 360 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 361 help 362 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 363 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 364 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 365 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 366 overhead. 367 368 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 369 dynticks subsystem development. 370 371 If unsure, say N. 372 373config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 374 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 375 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 376 help 377 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 378 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 379 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 380 small performance impact. 381 382 If in doubt, say N here. 383 384endchoice 385 386config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 387 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 388 help 389 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 390 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 391 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 392 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 393 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 394 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 395 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 396 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 397 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 398 399config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 400 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 401 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 402 default n 403 help 404 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 405 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 406 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 407 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 408 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 409 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 410 411config TASKSTATS 412 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 413 depends on NET 414 default n 415 help 416 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 417 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 418 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 419 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 420 space on task exit. 421 422 Say N if unsure. 423 424config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 425 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 426 depends on TASKSTATS 427 help 428 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 429 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 430 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 431 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 432 433 Say N if unsure. 434 435config TASK_XACCT 436 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 437 depends on TASKSTATS 438 help 439 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 440 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 441 442 Say N if unsure. 443 444config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 445 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 446 depends on TASK_XACCT 447 help 448 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 449 task has caused. 450 451 Say N if unsure. 452 453endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 454 455menu "RCU Subsystem" 456 457choice 458 prompt "RCU Implementation" 459 default TREE_RCU 460 461config TREE_RCU 462 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 463 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 464 select IRQ_WORK 465 help 466 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 467 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 468 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 469 smaller systems. 470 471config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 472 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 473 depends on PREEMPT 474 select IRQ_WORK 475 help 476 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 477 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 478 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 479 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 480 smaller systems. 481 482 Select this option if you are unsure. 483 484config TINY_RCU 485 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 486 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 487 help 488 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 489 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 490 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 491 memory footprint of RCU. 492 493endchoice 494 495config PREEMPT_RCU 496 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 497 help 498 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 499 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 500 501config RCU_STALL_COMMON 502 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 503 help 504 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 505 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 506 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 507 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 508 509config CONTEXT_TRACKING 510 bool 511 512config RCU_USER_QS 513 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 514 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 515 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 516 help 517 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 518 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 519 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 520 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 521 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 522 523 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 524 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 525 adds unnecessary overhead. 526 527 If unsure say N 528 529config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 530 bool "Force context tracking" 531 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 532 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 533 help 534 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 535 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 536 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 537 dynticks working. 538 539 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 540 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 541 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 542 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 543 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 544 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 545 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 546 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 547 CPUs in the system. 548 549 Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an 550 architecture backend for the context tracking. 551 552 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 553 don't want in production. 554 555 556config RCU_FANOUT 557 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 558 range 2 64 if 64BIT 559 range 2 32 if !64BIT 560 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 561 default 64 if 64BIT 562 default 32 if !64BIT 563 help 564 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 565 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 566 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 567 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 568 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 569 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 570 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 571 code paths on small(er) systems. 572 573 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 574 Take the default if unsure. 575 576config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 577 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 578 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 579 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 580 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 581 default 16 582 help 583 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 584 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 585 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 586 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 587 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 588 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 589 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 590 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 591 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 592 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 593 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 594 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 595 leaf-level fanouts work well. 596 597 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 598 599 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 600 601 Take the default if unsure. 602 603config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 604 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 605 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 606 default n 607 help 608 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 609 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 610 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 611 strong NUMA behavior. 612 613 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 614 615 Say N if unsure. 616 617config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 618 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 619 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 620 default n 621 help 622 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 623 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 624 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 625 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 626 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 627 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 628 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 629 630 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 631 don't care about increased grace-period durations. 632 633 Say N if you are unsure. 634 635config TREE_RCU_TRACE 636 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 637 select DEBUG_FS 638 help 639 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 640 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 641 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 642 643config RCU_BOOST 644 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 645 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 646 default n 647 help 648 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 649 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 650 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 651 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 652 653 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 654 Say N here if you are unsure. 655 656config RCU_BOOST_PRIO 657 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 658 range 1 99 659 depends on RCU_BOOST 660 default 1 661 help 662 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 663 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 664 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 665 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 666 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 667 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 668 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 669 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 670 671 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 672 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 673 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 674 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 675 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 676 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 677 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 678 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 679 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 680 set to priority 6 or higher. 681 682 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 683 684config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 685 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 686 range 0 3000 687 depends on RCU_BOOST 688 default 500 689 help 690 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 691 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 692 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 693 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 694 695 Accept the default if unsure. 696 697config RCU_NOCB_CPU 698 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 699 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 700 default n 701 help 702 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 703 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 704 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 705 asymmetric multiprocessors. 706 707 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 708 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 709 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 710 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 711 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 712 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 713 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 714 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 715 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 716 717 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 718 Say N here if you are unsure. 719 720choice 721 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 722 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 723 help 724 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 725 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 726 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 727 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 728 729config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 730 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 731 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 732 help 733 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 734 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 735 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 736 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 737 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 738 739 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 740 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 741 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 742 743config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 744 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 745 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 746 help 747 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 748 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 749 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 750 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 751 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 752 context. 753 754 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 755 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 756 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 757 758config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 759 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 760 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 761 help 762 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 763 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 764 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 765 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 766 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 767 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 768 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 769 770 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 771 or energy-efficiency reasons. 772 773endchoice 774 775endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 776 777config IKCONFIG 778 tristate "Kernel .config support" 779 ---help--- 780 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 781 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 782 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 783 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 784 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 785 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 786 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 787 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 788 789config IKCONFIG_PROC 790 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 791 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 792 ---help--- 793 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 794 through /proc/config.gz. 795 796config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 797 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 798 range 12 21 799 default 17 800 help 801 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 802 Examples: 803 17 => 128 KB 804 16 => 64 KB 805 15 => 32 KB 806 14 => 16 KB 807 13 => 8 KB 808 12 => 4 KB 809 810# 811# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 812# 813config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 814 bool 815 816config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 817 bool 818 819# 820# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 821# balancing logic: 822# 823config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 824 bool 825 826# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 827# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 828# 829config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 830 bool 831 832# 833# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 834config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 835 bool 836 837config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 838 bool 839 default y 840 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 841 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 842 843config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 844 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 845 default y 846 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 847 help 848 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 849 machine. 850 851config NUMA_BALANCING 852 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 853 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 854 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 855 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 856 help 857 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 858 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 859 it has references to the node the task is running on. 860 861 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 862 863menuconfig CGROUPS 864 boolean "Control Group support" 865 depends on EVENTFD 866 help 867 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 868 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 869 controls or device isolation. 870 See 871 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 872 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 873 and resource control) 874 875 Say N if unsure. 876 877if CGROUPS 878 879config CGROUP_DEBUG 880 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 881 default n 882 help 883 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 884 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 885 framework. 886 887 Say N if unsure. 888 889config CGROUP_FREEZER 890 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 891 help 892 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 893 cgroup. 894 895config CGROUP_DEVICE 896 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 897 help 898 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 899 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 900 901config CPUSETS 902 bool "Cpuset support" 903 help 904 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 905 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 906 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 907 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 908 909 Say N if unsure. 910 911config PROC_PID_CPUSET 912 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 913 depends on CPUSETS 914 default y 915 916config CGROUP_CPUACCT 917 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 918 help 919 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 920 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 921 922config RESOURCE_COUNTERS 923 bool "Resource counters" 924 help 925 This option enables controller independent resource accounting 926 infrastructure that works with cgroups. 927 928config MEMCG 929 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 930 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 931 select MM_OWNER 932 help 933 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 934 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 935 936 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 937 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 938 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 939 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 940 at boot. 941 942 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 943 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 944 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 945 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 946 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 947 948 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 949 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 950 951config MEMCG_SWAP 952 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 953 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 954 help 955 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 956 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 957 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 958 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 959 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 960 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 961 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 962 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 963 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 964 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 965 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 966 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 967 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 968config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 969 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 970 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 971 default y 972 help 973 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 974 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 975 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 976 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 977 parameter should have this option unselected. 978 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 979 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 980 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 981config MEMCG_KMEM 982 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 983 depends on MEMCG 984 depends on SLUB || SLAB 985 help 986 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 987 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 988 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 989 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 990 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 991 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 992 993config CGROUP_HUGETLB 994 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 995 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 996 default n 997 help 998 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 999 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1000 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1001 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1002 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1003 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1004 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1005 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1006 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1007 1008config CGROUP_PERF 1009 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1010 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1011 help 1012 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 1013 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1014 designated cpu. 1015 1016 Say N if unsure. 1017 1018menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1019 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 1020 default n 1021 help 1022 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1023 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1024 tasks. 1025 1026if CGROUP_SCHED 1027config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1028 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1029 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1030 default CGROUP_SCHED 1031 1032config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1033 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1034 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1035 default n 1036 help 1037 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1038 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1039 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1040 restriction. 1041 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1042 1043config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1044 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1045 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1046 default n 1047 help 1048 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1049 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1050 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1051 realtime bandwidth for them. 1052 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 1053 1054endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1055 1056config BLK_CGROUP 1057 bool "Block IO controller" 1058 depends on BLOCK 1059 default n 1060 ---help--- 1061 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1062 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1063 policies. 1064 1065 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1066 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1067 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1068 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1069 1070 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1071 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1072 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1073 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1074 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1075 1076 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1077 1078config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1079 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1080 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1081 default n 1082 ---help--- 1083 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1084 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1085 1086endif # CGROUPS 1087 1088config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1089 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1090 default n 1091 help 1092 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1093 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1094 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1095 entries. 1096 1097 If unsure, say N here. 1098 1099menuconfig NAMESPACES 1100 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1101 default !EXPERT 1102 help 1103 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1104 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1105 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1106 different namespaces. 1107 1108if NAMESPACES 1109 1110config UTS_NS 1111 bool "UTS namespace" 1112 default y 1113 help 1114 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1115 uname() system call 1116 1117config IPC_NS 1118 bool "IPC namespace" 1119 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1120 default y 1121 help 1122 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1123 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1124 1125config USER_NS 1126 bool "User namespace" 1127 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1128 1129 default n 1130 help 1131 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1132 to provide different user info for different servers. 1133 1134 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1135 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1136 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1137 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1138 use. 1139 1140 If unsure, say N. 1141 1142config PID_NS 1143 bool "PID Namespaces" 1144 default y 1145 help 1146 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1147 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1148 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1149 1150config NET_NS 1151 bool "Network namespace" 1152 depends on NET 1153 default y 1154 help 1155 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1156 of the network stack. 1157 1158endif # NAMESPACES 1159 1160config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1161 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1162 default n 1163 help 1164 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 1165 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 1166 1167 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 1168 1169config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1170 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1171 select EVENTFD 1172 select CGROUPS 1173 select CGROUP_SCHED 1174 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1175 help 1176 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1177 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1178 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1179 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1180 upon task session. 1181 1182config MM_OWNER 1183 bool 1184 1185config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1186 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1187 depends on SYSFS 1188 default n 1189 help 1190 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1191 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1192 /sys/block/. 1193 1194 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1195 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1196 1197 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1198 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1199 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1200 1201 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1202 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1203 option enabled. 1204 1205 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1206 need to say Y here. 1207 1208config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1209 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1210 default n 1211 depends on SYSFS 1212 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1213 help 1214 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1215 1216 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1217 option. 1218 1219 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1220 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1221 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1222 1223config RELAY 1224 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1225 help 1226 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1227 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1228 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1229 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1230 user space. 1231 1232 If unsure, say N. 1233 1234config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1235 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1236 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1237 help 1238 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1239 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1240 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1241 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1242 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1243 1244 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1245 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1246 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1247 1248 If unsure say Y. 1249 1250if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1251 1252source "usr/Kconfig" 1253 1254endif 1255 1256config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1257 bool "Optimize for size" 1258 help 1259 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1260 resulting in a smaller kernel. 1261 1262 If unsure, say N. 1263 1264config SYSCTL 1265 bool 1266 1267config ANON_INODES 1268 bool 1269 1270config HAVE_UID16 1271 bool 1272 1273config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1274 bool 1275 help 1276 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1277 1278config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1279 bool 1280 help 1281 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1282 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1283 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1284 1285config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1286 bool 1287 help 1288 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1289 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1290 the unaligned access emulation. 1291 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1292 1293config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1294 bool 1295 1296menuconfig EXPERT 1297 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1298 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1299 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1300 help 1301 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1302 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1303 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1304 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1305 1306config UID16 1307 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1308 depends on HAVE_UID16 1309 default y 1310 help 1311 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1312 1313config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1314 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1315 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1316 default n 1317 select SYSCTL 1318 ---help--- 1319 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1320 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1321 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1322 information. 1323 1324 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1325 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1326 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1327 1328 If unsure say N here. 1329 1330config KALLSYMS 1331 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1332 default y 1333 help 1334 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1335 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1336 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1337 1338config KALLSYMS_ALL 1339 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1341 help 1342 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1343 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1344 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1345 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1346 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1347 1348 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1349 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1350 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1351 something like this). 1352 1353 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1354 1355config PRINTK 1356 default y 1357 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1358 select IRQ_WORK 1359 help 1360 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1361 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1362 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1363 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1364 strongly discouraged. 1365 1366config BUG 1367 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1368 default y 1369 help 1370 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1371 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1372 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1373 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1374 Just say Y. 1375 1376config ELF_CORE 1377 depends on COREDUMP 1378 default y 1379 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1380 help 1381 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1382 1383 1384config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1385 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1386 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1387 select I8253_LOCK 1388 default y 1389 help 1390 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1391 support, saving some memory. 1392 1393config BASE_FULL 1394 default y 1395 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1396 help 1397 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1398 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1399 but may reduce performance. 1400 1401config FUTEX 1402 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1403 default y 1404 select RT_MUTEXES 1405 help 1406 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1407 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1408 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1409 1410config EPOLL 1411 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1412 default y 1413 select ANON_INODES 1414 help 1415 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1416 support for epoll family of system calls. 1417 1418config SIGNALFD 1419 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1420 select ANON_INODES 1421 default y 1422 help 1423 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1424 on a file descriptor. 1425 1426 If unsure, say Y. 1427 1428config TIMERFD 1429 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1430 select ANON_INODES 1431 default y 1432 help 1433 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1434 events on a file descriptor. 1435 1436 If unsure, say Y. 1437 1438config EVENTFD 1439 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1440 select ANON_INODES 1441 default y 1442 help 1443 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1444 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1445 1446 If unsure, say Y. 1447 1448config SHMEM 1449 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1450 default y 1451 depends on MMU 1452 help 1453 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1454 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1455 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1456 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1457 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1458 1459config AIO 1460 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1461 default y 1462 help 1463 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1464 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1465 this option saves about 7k. 1466 1467config PCI_QUIRKS 1468 default y 1469 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1470 depends on PCI 1471 help 1472 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1473 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1474 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1475 1476config EMBEDDED 1477 bool "Embedded system" 1478 select EXPERT 1479 help 1480 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1481 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1482 for configuration. 1483 1484config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1485 bool 1486 help 1487 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1488 1489config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1490 bool 1491 help 1492 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1493 1494menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1495 1496config PERF_EVENTS 1497 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1498 default y if PROFILING 1499 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1500 select ANON_INODES 1501 select IRQ_WORK 1502 help 1503 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1504 by software and hardware. 1505 1506 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1507 use of generic tracepoints. 1508 1509 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1510 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1511 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1512 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1513 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1514 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1515 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1516 1517 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1518 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1519 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1520 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1521 capabilities on top of those. 1522 1523 Say Y if unsure. 1524 1525config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1526 default n 1527 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1528 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1529 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1530 help 1531 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1532 1533 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1534 that don't require it. 1535 1536 Say N if unsure. 1537 1538endmenu 1539 1540config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1541 default y 1542 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1543 help 1544 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1545 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1546 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1547 if VM event counters are disabled. 1548 1549config SLUB_DEBUG 1550 default y 1551 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1552 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1553 help 1554 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1555 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1556 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1557 no support for cache validation etc. 1558 1559config COMPAT_BRK 1560 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1561 default y 1562 help 1563 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1564 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1565 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1566 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1567 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1568 1569 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1570 1571choice 1572 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1573 default SLUB 1574 help 1575 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1576 1577config SLAB 1578 bool "SLAB" 1579 help 1580 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1581 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1582 per cpu and per node queues. 1583 1584config SLUB 1585 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1586 help 1587 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1588 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1589 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1590 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1591 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1592 a slab allocator. 1593 1594config SLOB 1595 depends on EXPERT 1596 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1597 help 1598 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1599 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1600 does not perform as well on large systems. 1601 1602endchoice 1603 1604config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1605 default y 1606 depends on SLUB && SMP 1607 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1608 help 1609 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1610 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1611 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1612 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1613 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1614 1615config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1616 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1617 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1618 default n 1619 help 1620 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1621 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1622 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1623 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1624 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1625 then the flag will be ignored. 1626 1627 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1628 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1629 1630 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1631 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1632 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1633 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1634 1635 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1636 1637config PROFILING 1638 bool "Profiling support" 1639 help 1640 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1641 by profilers such as OProfile. 1642 1643# 1644# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1645# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1646# 1647config TRACEPOINTS 1648 bool 1649 1650source "arch/Kconfig" 1651 1652endmenu # General setup 1653 1654config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1655 bool 1656 default n 1657 1658config SLABINFO 1659 bool 1660 depends on PROC_FS 1661 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1662 default y 1663 1664config RT_MUTEXES 1665 boolean 1666 1667config BASE_SMALL 1668 int 1669 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1670 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1671 1672menuconfig MODULES 1673 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1674 option modules 1675 help 1676 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1677 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1678 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1679 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1680 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1681 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1682 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1683 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1684 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1685 1686 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1687 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1688 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1689 this). 1690 1691 If unsure, say Y. 1692 1693if MODULES 1694 1695config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1696 bool "Forced module loading" 1697 default n 1698 help 1699 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1700 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1701 is usually a really bad idea. 1702 1703config MODULE_UNLOAD 1704 bool "Module unloading" 1705 help 1706 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1707 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1708 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1709 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1710 1711config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1712 bool "Forced module unloading" 1713 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1714 help 1715 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1716 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1717 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1718 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1719 If unsure, say N. 1720 1721config MODVERSIONS 1722 bool "Module versioning support" 1723 help 1724 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1725 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1726 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1727 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1728 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1729 unsure, say N. 1730 1731config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1732 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1733 help 1734 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1735 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1736 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1737 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1738 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1739 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1740 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1741 1742config MODULE_SIG 1743 bool "Module signature verification" 1744 depends on MODULES 1745 select KEYS 1746 select CRYPTO 1747 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1748 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1749 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1750 select ASN1 1751 select OID_REGISTRY 1752 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1753 help 1754 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1755 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1756 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1757 1758 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1759 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1760 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1761 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1762 1763config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1764 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1765 depends on MODULE_SIG 1766 help 1767 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1768 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1769 1770config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1771 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1772 default y 1773 depends on MODULE_SIG 1774 help 1775 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1776 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1777 1778comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1779 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1780 1781choice 1782 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1783 depends on MODULE_SIG 1784 help 1785 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1786 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1787 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1788 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1789 the signature on that module. 1790 1791config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1792 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1793 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1794 1795config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1796 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1797 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1798 1799config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1800 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1801 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1802 1803config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1804 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1805 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1806 1807config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1808 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1809 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1810 1811endchoice 1812 1813config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1814 string 1815 depends on MODULE_SIG 1816 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1817 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1818 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1819 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1820 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1821 1822endif # MODULES 1823 1824config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1825 bool 1826 help 1827 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1828 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1829 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1830 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1831 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1832 1833config STOP_MACHINE 1834 bool 1835 default y 1836 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 1837 help 1838 Need stop_machine() primitive. 1839 1840source "block/Kconfig" 1841 1842config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1843 bool 1844 1845config PADATA 1846 depends on SMP 1847 bool 1848 1849# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1850# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1851# mappings 1852config BROKEN_RODATA 1853 bool 1854 1855config ASN1 1856 tristate 1857 help 1858 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1859 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1860 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1861 functions to call on what tags. 1862 1863source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1864