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 CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266 depends on MMU 267 default y 268 help 269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272 See the man page for more details. 273 274config FHANDLE 275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276 select EXPORTFS 277 help 278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284 syscalls. 285 286config USELIB 287 bool "uselib syscall" 288 default y 289 help 290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 294 running glibc can safely disable this. 295 296config AUDIT 297 bool "Auditing support" 298 depends on NET 299 help 300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 304 305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 306 bool 307 308config AUDITSYSCALL 309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 312 help 313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 315 such as SELinux. 316 317config AUDIT_WATCH 318 def_bool y 319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320 select FSNOTIFY 321 322config AUDIT_TREE 323 def_bool y 324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 325 select FSNOTIFY 326 327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329 330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331 332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333 bool 334 335choice 336 prompt "Cputime accounting" 337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339 340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344 help 345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347 granularity. 348 349 If unsure, say Y. 350 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355 help 356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362 systems. 363 364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370 help 371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375 overhead. 376 377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378 dynticks subsystem development. 379 380 If unsure, say N. 381 382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385 help 386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389 small performance impact. 390 391 If in doubt, say N here. 392 393endchoice 394 395config SCHED_WALT 396 bool "Support window based load tracking" 397 depends on SMP 398 help 399 This feature will allow the scheduler to maintain a tunable window 400 based set of metrics for tasks and runqueues. These metrics can be 401 used to guide task placement as well as task frequency requirements 402 for cpufreq governors. 403 404config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 405 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 406 help 407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 416 417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 420 default n 421 help 422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 428 429config TASKSTATS 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 431 depends on NET 432 default n 433 help 434 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 435 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 436 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 437 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 438 space on task exit. 439 440 Say N if unsure. 441 442config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 443 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 444 depends on TASKSTATS 445 help 446 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 447 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 448 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 449 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 450 451 Say N if unsure. 452 453config TASK_XACCT 454 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 455 depends on TASKSTATS 456 help 457 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 458 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 459 460 Say N if unsure. 461 462config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 463 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 464 depends on TASK_XACCT 465 help 466 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 467 task has caused. 468 469 Say N if unsure. 470 471endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 472 473menu "RCU Subsystem" 474 475choice 476 prompt "RCU Implementation" 477 default TREE_RCU 478 479config TREE_RCU 480 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 481 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 482 select IRQ_WORK 483 help 484 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 485 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 486 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 487 smaller systems. 488 489config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 490 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 491 depends on PREEMPT 492 select IRQ_WORK 493 help 494 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 495 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 496 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 497 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 498 smaller systems. 499 500 Select this option if you are unsure. 501 502config TINY_RCU 503 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 504 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 505 help 506 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 507 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 508 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 509 memory footprint of RCU. 510 511endchoice 512 513config PREEMPT_RCU 514 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 515 help 516 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 517 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and, in the old days, TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. 518 519config TASKS_RCU 520 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch" 521 default n 522 help 523 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 524 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 525 user-mode execution as quiescent states. 526 527 If unsure, say N. 528 529config RCU_STALL_COMMON 530 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 531 help 532 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 533 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 534 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 535 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 536 537config CONTEXT_TRACKING 538 bool 539 540config RCU_USER_QS 541 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 542 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 543 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 544 help 545 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 546 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 547 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 548 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 549 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 550 551 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 552 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 553 adds unnecessary overhead. 554 555 If unsure say N 556 557config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 558 bool "Force context tracking" 559 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 560 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 561 help 562 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 563 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 564 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 565 dynticks working. 566 567 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 568 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 569 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 570 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 571 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 572 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 573 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 574 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 575 CPUs in the system. 576 577 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 578 architecture backend for the context tracking. 579 580 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 581 don't want in production. 582 583 584config RCU_FANOUT 585 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 586 range 2 64 if 64BIT 587 range 2 32 if !64BIT 588 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 589 default 64 if 64BIT 590 default 32 if !64BIT 591 help 592 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 593 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 594 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 595 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 596 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 597 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 598 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 599 code paths on small(er) systems. 600 601 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 602 Take the default if unsure. 603 604config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 605 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 606 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 607 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 608 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 609 default 16 610 help 611 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 612 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 613 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 614 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 615 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 616 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 617 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 618 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 619 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 620 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 621 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 622 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 623 leaf-level fanouts work well. 624 625 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 626 627 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 628 629 Take the default if unsure. 630 631config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 632 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 633 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 634 default n 635 help 636 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 637 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 638 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 639 strong NUMA behavior. 640 641 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 642 643 Say N if unsure. 644 645config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 646 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 647 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 648 default n 649 help 650 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 651 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 652 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 653 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 654 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 655 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 656 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 657 658 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 659 don't care about increased grace-period durations. 660 661 Say N if you are unsure. 662 663config TREE_RCU_TRACE 664 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 665 select DEBUG_FS 666 help 667 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 668 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 669 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 670 671config RCU_BOOST 672 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 673 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 674 default n 675 help 676 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 677 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 678 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 679 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 680 681 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 682 Say N here if you are unsure. 683 684config RCU_BOOST_PRIO 685 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 686 range 1 99 687 depends on RCU_BOOST 688 default 1 689 help 690 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 691 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 692 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 693 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 694 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 695 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 696 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 697 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 698 699 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 700 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 701 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 702 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 703 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 704 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 705 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 706 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 707 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 708 set to priority 6 or higher. 709 710 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 711 712config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 713 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 714 range 0 3000 715 depends on RCU_BOOST 716 default 500 717 help 718 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 719 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 720 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 721 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 722 723 Accept the default if unsure. 724 725config RCU_NOCB_CPU 726 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 727 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 728 default n 729 help 730 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 731 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 732 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 733 asymmetric multiprocessors. 734 735 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 736 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 737 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 738 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 739 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 740 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 741 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 742 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 743 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 744 745 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 746 Say N here if you are unsure. 747 748choice 749 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 750 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 751 help 752 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 753 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 754 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 755 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 756 757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 758 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 759 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 760 help 761 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 762 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 763 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 764 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 765 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 766 767 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 768 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 769 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 770 771config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 772 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 773 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 774 help 775 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 776 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 777 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 778 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 779 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 780 context. 781 782 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 783 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 784 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 785 786config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 787 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 788 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 789 help 790 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 791 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 792 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 793 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 794 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 795 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 796 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 797 798 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 799 or energy-efficiency reasons. 800 801endchoice 802 803endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 804 805config BUILD_BIN2C 806 bool 807 default n 808 809config IKCONFIG 810 tristate "Kernel .config support" 811 select BUILD_BIN2C 812 ---help--- 813 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 814 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 815 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 816 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 817 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 818 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 819 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 820 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 821 822config IKCONFIG_PROC 823 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 824 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 825 ---help--- 826 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 827 through /proc/config.gz. 828 829config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 830 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 831 range 12 21 832 default 17 833 depends on PRINTK 834 help 835 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 836 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 837 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 838 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 839 840 Examples: 841 17 => 128 KB 842 16 => 64 KB 843 15 => 32 KB 844 14 => 16 KB 845 13 => 8 KB 846 12 => 4 KB 847 848config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 849 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 850 depends on SMP 851 range 0 21 852 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 853 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 854 depends on PRINTK 855 help 856 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 857 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 858 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 859 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 860 e.g. backtraces. 861 862 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 863 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 864 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 865 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 866 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 867 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 868 869 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 870 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 871 872 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 873 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 874 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 875 876 Examples shift values and their meaning: 877 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 878 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 879 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 880 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 881 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 882 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 883 884# 885# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 886# 887config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 888 bool 889 890config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 891 bool 892 893# 894# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 895# balancing logic: 896# 897config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 898 bool 899 900# 901# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 902# 903config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 904 bool 905 906# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 907# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 908# 909config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 910 bool 911 912config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 913 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 914 default y 915 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 916 help 917 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 918 machine. 919 920config NUMA_BALANCING 921 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 922 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 923 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 924 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 925 help 926 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 927 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 928 it has references to the node the task is running on. 929 930 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 931 932menuconfig CGROUPS 933 boolean "Control Group support" 934 select KERNFS 935 help 936 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 937 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 938 controls or device isolation. 939 See 940 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 941 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 942 and resource control) 943 944 Say N if unsure. 945 946if CGROUPS 947 948config CGROUP_DEBUG 949 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 950 default n 951 help 952 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 953 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 954 framework. 955 956 Say N if unsure. 957 958config CGROUP_FREEZER 959 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 960 help 961 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 962 cgroup. 963 964config CGROUP_DEVICE 965 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 966 help 967 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 968 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 969 970config CPUSETS 971 bool "Cpuset support" 972 help 973 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 974 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 975 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 976 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 977 978 Say N if unsure. 979 980config PROC_PID_CPUSET 981 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 982 depends on CPUSETS 983 default y 984 985config CGROUP_CPUACCT 986 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 987 help 988 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 989 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 990 991config RESOURCE_COUNTERS 992 bool "Resource counters" 993 help 994 This option enables controller independent resource accounting 995 infrastructure that works with cgroups. 996 997config CGROUP_SCHEDTUNE 998 bool "CFS tasks boosting cgroup subsystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 999 depends on SCHED_TUNE 1000 help 1001 This option provides the "schedtune" controller which improves the 1002 flexibility of the task boosting mechanism by introducing the support 1003 to define "per task" boost values. 1004 1005 This new controller: 1006 1. allows only a two layers hierarchy, where the root defines the 1007 system-wide boost value and its direct childrens define each one a 1008 different "class of tasks" to be boosted with a different value 1009 2. supports up to 16 different task classes, each one which could be 1010 configured with a different boost value 1011 1012 Say N if unsure. 1013 1014config MEMCG 1015 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 1016 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 1017 select EVENTFD 1018 help 1019 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 1020 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 1021 1022 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 1023 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 1024 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 1025 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 1026 at boot. 1027 1028 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 1029 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 1030 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 1031 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 1032 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 1033 1034config MEMCG_SWAP 1035 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 1036 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 1037 help 1038 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 1039 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 1040 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 1041 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 1042 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 1043 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 1044 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 1045 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 1046 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 1047 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 1048 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 1049 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 1050 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 1051config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 1052 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 1053 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 1054 default y 1055 help 1056 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 1057 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 1058 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 1059 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 1060 parameter should have this option unselected. 1061 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1062 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 1063 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1064config MEMCG_KMEM 1065 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 1066 depends on MEMCG 1067 depends on SLUB || SLAB 1068 help 1069 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 1070 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 1071 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 1072 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 1073 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 1074 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 1075 1076 WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means 1077 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there 1078 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option 1079 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development 1080 purposes. 1081 1082config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1083 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 1084 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 1085 default n 1086 help 1087 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 1088 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1089 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1090 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1091 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1092 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1093 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1094 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1095 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1096 1097config CGROUP_PERF 1098 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1099 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1100 help 1101 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 1102 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1103 designated cpu. 1104 1105 Say N if unsure. 1106 1107menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1108 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 1109 default n 1110 help 1111 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1112 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1113 tasks. 1114 1115if CGROUP_SCHED 1116config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1117 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1118 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1119 default CGROUP_SCHED 1120 1121config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1122 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1123 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1124 default n 1125 help 1126 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1127 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1128 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1129 restriction. 1130 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1131 1132config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1133 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1134 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1135 default n 1136 help 1137 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1138 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1139 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1140 realtime bandwidth for them. 1141 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 1142 1143endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1144 1145config BLK_CGROUP 1146 bool "Block IO controller" 1147 depends on BLOCK 1148 default n 1149 ---help--- 1150 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1151 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1152 policies. 1153 1154 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1155 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1156 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1157 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1158 1159 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1160 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1161 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1162 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1163 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1164 1165 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1166 1167config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1168 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1169 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1170 default n 1171 ---help--- 1172 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1173 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1174 1175endif # CGROUPS 1176 1177config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1178 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1179 default n 1180 help 1181 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1182 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1183 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1184 entries. 1185 1186 If unsure, say N here. 1187 1188menuconfig NAMESPACES 1189 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1190 default !EXPERT 1191 help 1192 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1193 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1194 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1195 different namespaces. 1196 1197if NAMESPACES 1198 1199config UTS_NS 1200 bool "UTS namespace" 1201 default y 1202 help 1203 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1204 uname() system call 1205 1206config IPC_NS 1207 bool "IPC namespace" 1208 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1209 default y 1210 help 1211 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1212 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1213 1214config USER_NS 1215 bool "User namespace" 1216 default n 1217 help 1218 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1219 to provide different user info for different servers. 1220 1221 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1222 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1223 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1224 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1225 use. 1226 1227 If unsure, say N. 1228 1229config PID_NS 1230 bool "PID Namespaces" 1231 default y 1232 help 1233 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1234 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1235 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1236 1237config NET_NS 1238 bool "Network namespace" 1239 depends on NET 1240 default y 1241 help 1242 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1243 of the network stack. 1244 1245endif # NAMESPACES 1246 1247config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1248 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1249 select CGROUPS 1250 select CGROUP_SCHED 1251 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1252 help 1253 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1254 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1255 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1256 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1257 upon task session. 1258 1259config SCHED_TUNE 1260 bool "Boosting for CFS tasks (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1261 depends on SMP 1262 help 1263 This option enables the system-wide support for task boosting. 1264 When this support is enabled a new sysctl interface is exposed to 1265 userspace via: 1266 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_cfs_boost 1267 which allows to set a system-wide boost value in range [0..100]. 1268 1269 The currently boosting strategy is implemented in such a way that: 1270 - a 0% boost value requires to operate in "standard" mode by 1271 scheduling all tasks at the minimum capacities required by their 1272 workload demand 1273 - a 100% boost value requires to push at maximum the task 1274 performances, "regardless" of the incurred energy consumption 1275 1276 A boost value in between these two boundaries is used to bias the 1277 power/performance trade-off, the higher the boost value the more the 1278 scheduler is biased toward performance boosting instead of energy 1279 efficiency. 1280 1281 Since this support exposes a single system-wide knob, the specified 1282 boost value is applied to all (CFS) tasks in the system. 1283 1284 If unsure, say N. 1285 1286config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1287 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1288 depends on SYSFS 1289 default n 1290 help 1291 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1292 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1293 /sys/block/. 1294 1295 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1296 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1297 1298 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1299 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1300 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1301 1302 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1303 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1304 option enabled. 1305 1306 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1307 need to say Y here. 1308 1309config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1310 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1311 default n 1312 depends on SYSFS 1313 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1314 help 1315 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1316 1317 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1318 option. 1319 1320 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1321 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1322 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1323 1324config RELAY 1325 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1326 help 1327 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1328 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1329 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1330 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1331 user space. 1332 1333 If unsure, say N. 1334 1335config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1336 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1337 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1338 help 1339 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1340 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1341 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1342 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1343 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1344 1345 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1346 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1347 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1348 1349 If unsure say Y. 1350 1351if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1352 1353source "usr/Kconfig" 1354 1355endif 1356 1357config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1358 bool "Optimize for size" 1359 help 1360 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1361 resulting in a smaller kernel. 1362 1363 If unsure, say N. 1364 1365config SYSCTL 1366 bool 1367 1368config ANON_INODES 1369 bool 1370 1371config HAVE_UID16 1372 bool 1373 1374config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1375 bool 1376 help 1377 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1378 1379config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1380 bool 1381 help 1382 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1383 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1384 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1385 1386config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1387 bool 1388 help 1389 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1390 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1391 the unaligned access emulation. 1392 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1393 1394config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1395 bool 1396 1397# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1398config BPF 1399 bool 1400 1401menuconfig EXPERT 1402 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1403 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1404 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1405 help 1406 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1407 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1408 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1409 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1410 1411config UID16 1412 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1413 depends on HAVE_UID16 1414 default y 1415 help 1416 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1417 1418config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1419 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1420 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1421 ---help--- 1422 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1423 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1424 architectures. 1425 1426 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1427 1428config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1429 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1430 default y 1431 ---help--- 1432 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1433 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1434 compatibility with some systems. 1435 1436 If unsure say Y here. 1437 1438config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1439 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1440 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1441 default n 1442 select SYSCTL 1443 ---help--- 1444 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1445 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1446 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1447 information. 1448 1449 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1450 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1451 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1452 1453 If unsure say N here. 1454 1455config KALLSYMS 1456 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1457 default y 1458 help 1459 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1460 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1461 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1462 1463config KALLSYMS_ALL 1464 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1465 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1466 help 1467 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1468 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1469 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1470 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1471 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1472 1473 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1474 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1475 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1476 something like this). 1477 1478 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1479 1480config PRINTK 1481 default y 1482 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1483 select IRQ_WORK 1484 help 1485 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1486 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1487 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1488 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1489 strongly discouraged. 1490 1491config BUG 1492 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1493 default y 1494 help 1495 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1496 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1497 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1498 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1499 Just say Y. 1500 1501config ELF_CORE 1502 depends on COREDUMP 1503 default y 1504 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1505 help 1506 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1507 1508 1509config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1510 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1511 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1512 select I8253_LOCK 1513 default y 1514 help 1515 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1516 support, saving some memory. 1517 1518config BASE_FULL 1519 default y 1520 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1521 help 1522 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1523 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1524 but may reduce performance. 1525 1526config FUTEX 1527 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1528 default y 1529 select RT_MUTEXES 1530 help 1531 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1532 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1533 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1534 1535config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1536 bool 1537 depends on FUTEX 1538 help 1539 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1540 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1541 checks. 1542 1543config EPOLL 1544 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1545 default y 1546 select ANON_INODES 1547 help 1548 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1549 support for epoll family of system calls. 1550 1551config SIGNALFD 1552 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1553 select ANON_INODES 1554 default y 1555 help 1556 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1557 on a file descriptor. 1558 1559 If unsure, say Y. 1560 1561config TIMERFD 1562 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1563 select ANON_INODES 1564 default y 1565 help 1566 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1567 events on a file descriptor. 1568 1569 If unsure, say Y. 1570 1571config EVENTFD 1572 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1573 select ANON_INODES 1574 default y 1575 help 1576 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1577 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1578 1579 If unsure, say Y. 1580 1581# syscall, maps, verifier 1582config BPF_SYSCALL 1583 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT 1584 select ANON_INODES 1585 select BPF 1586 default n 1587 help 1588 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1589 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1590 1591config SHMEM 1592 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1593 default y 1594 depends on MMU 1595 help 1596 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1597 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1598 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1599 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1600 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1601 1602config AIO 1603 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1604 default y 1605 help 1606 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1607 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1608 this option saves about 7k. 1609 1610config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1611 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1612 default y 1613 help 1614 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1615 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1616 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1617 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1618 space. 1619 1620config PCI_QUIRKS 1621 default y 1622 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1623 depends on PCI 1624 help 1625 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1626 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1627 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1628 1629config EMBEDDED 1630 bool "Embedded system" 1631 option allnoconfig_y 1632 select EXPERT 1633 help 1634 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1635 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1636 for configuration. 1637 1638config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1639 bool 1640 help 1641 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1642 1643config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1644 bool 1645 help 1646 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1647 1648menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1649 1650config PERF_EVENTS 1651 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1652 default y if PROFILING 1653 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1654 select ANON_INODES 1655 select IRQ_WORK 1656 help 1657 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1658 by software and hardware. 1659 1660 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1661 use of generic tracepoints. 1662 1663 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1664 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1665 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1666 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1667 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1668 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1669 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1670 1671 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1672 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1673 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1674 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1675 capabilities on top of those. 1676 1677 Say Y if unsure. 1678 1679config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1680 default n 1681 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1682 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1683 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1684 help 1685 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1686 1687 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1688 that don't require it. 1689 1690 Say N if unsure. 1691 1692endmenu 1693 1694config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1695 default y 1696 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1697 help 1698 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1699 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1700 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1701 if VM event counters are disabled. 1702 1703config SLUB_DEBUG 1704 default y 1705 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1706 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1707 help 1708 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1709 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1710 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1711 no support for cache validation etc. 1712 1713config COMPAT_BRK 1714 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1715 default y 1716 help 1717 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1718 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1719 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1720 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1721 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1722 1723 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1724 1725choice 1726 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1727 default SLUB 1728 help 1729 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1730 1731config SLAB 1732 bool "SLAB" 1733 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1734 help 1735 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1736 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1737 per cpu and per node queues. 1738 1739config SLUB 1740 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1741 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1742 help 1743 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1744 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1745 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1746 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1747 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1748 a slab allocator. 1749 1750config SLOB 1751 depends on EXPERT 1752 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1753 help 1754 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1755 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1756 does not perform as well on large systems. 1757 1758endchoice 1759 1760config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1761 default y 1762 depends on SLUB && SMP 1763 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1764 help 1765 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1766 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1767 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1768 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1769 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1770 1771config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1772 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1773 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1774 default n 1775 help 1776 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1777 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1778 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1779 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1780 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1781 then the flag will be ignored. 1782 1783 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1784 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1785 1786 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1787 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1788 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1789 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1790 1791 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1792 1793config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1794 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 1795 depends on KEYS 1796 help 1797 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 1798 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 1799 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 1800 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 1801 keys already in the keyring. 1802 1803 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 1804 1805config PROFILING 1806 bool "Profiling support" 1807 help 1808 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1809 by profilers such as OProfile. 1810 1811# 1812# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1813# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1814# 1815config TRACEPOINTS 1816 bool 1817 1818source "arch/Kconfig" 1819 1820endmenu # General setup 1821 1822config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1823 bool 1824 default n 1825 1826config SLABINFO 1827 bool 1828 depends on PROC_FS 1829 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1830 default y 1831 1832config RT_MUTEXES 1833 boolean 1834 1835config BASE_SMALL 1836 int 1837 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1838 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1839 1840menuconfig MODULES 1841 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1842 option modules 1843 help 1844 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1845 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1846 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1847 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1848 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1849 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1850 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1851 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1852 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1853 1854 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1855 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1856 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1857 this). 1858 1859 If unsure, say Y. 1860 1861if MODULES 1862 1863config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1864 bool "Forced module loading" 1865 default n 1866 help 1867 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1868 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1869 is usually a really bad idea. 1870 1871config MODULE_UNLOAD 1872 bool "Module unloading" 1873 help 1874 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1875 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1876 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1877 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1878 1879config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1880 bool "Forced module unloading" 1881 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1882 help 1883 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1884 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1885 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1886 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1887 If unsure, say N. 1888 1889config MODVERSIONS 1890 bool "Module versioning support" 1891 help 1892 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1893 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1894 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1895 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1896 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1897 unsure, say N. 1898 1899config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1900 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1901 help 1902 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1903 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1904 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1905 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1906 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1907 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1908 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1909 1910config MODULE_SIG 1911 bool "Module signature verification" 1912 depends on MODULES 1913 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1914 select KEYS 1915 select CRYPTO 1916 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1917 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1918 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1919 select ASN1 1920 select OID_REGISTRY 1921 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1922 help 1923 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1924 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1925 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1926 1927 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1928 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1929 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1930 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1931 1932config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1933 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1934 depends on MODULE_SIG 1935 help 1936 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1937 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1938 1939config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1940 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1941 default y 1942 depends on MODULE_SIG 1943 help 1944 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1945 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1946 1947comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1948 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1949 1950choice 1951 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1952 depends on MODULE_SIG 1953 help 1954 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1955 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1956 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1957 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1958 the signature on that module. 1959 1960config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1961 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1962 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1963 1964config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1965 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1966 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1967 1968config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1969 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1970 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1971 1972config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1973 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1974 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1975 1976config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1977 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1978 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1979 1980endchoice 1981 1982config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1983 string 1984 depends on MODULE_SIG 1985 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1986 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1987 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1988 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1989 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1990 1991config MODULE_COMPRESS 1992 bool "Compress modules on installation" 1993 depends on MODULES 1994 help 1995 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make 1996 modules_install' is run. 1997 1998 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the 1999 choice made in "Compression algorithm". 2000 2001 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip 2002 and xz compressed modules. 2003 2004 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel 2005 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that 2006 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed. 2007 2008 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside 2009 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole 2010 initrd or initramfs instead. 2011 2012 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is 2013 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to 2014 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload. 2015 2016choice 2017 prompt "Compression algorithm" 2018 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2019 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2020 help 2021 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2022 'make modules_install'. 2023 2024 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2025 2026config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2027 bool "GZIP" 2028 2029config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2030 bool "XZ" 2031 2032endchoice 2033 2034endif # MODULES 2035 2036config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2037 bool 2038 help 2039 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2040 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2041 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2042 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2043 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2044 2045config STOP_MACHINE 2046 bool 2047 default y 2048 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 2049 help 2050 Need stop_machine() primitive. 2051 2052source "block/Kconfig" 2053 2054config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2055 bool 2056 2057config PADATA 2058 depends on SMP 2059 bool 2060 2061# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2062# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2063# mappings 2064config BROKEN_RODATA 2065 bool 2066 2067config ASN1 2068 tristate 2069 help 2070 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2071 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2072 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2073 functions to call on what tags. 2074 2075source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2076