180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 301dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 311dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 321dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 33ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 76dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8384336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8484336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8584336466SRoland McGrath help 8684336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8784336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8884336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8984336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9084336466SRoland McGrath 911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 101aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 113aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 120aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1303ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1313ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1323ebe1243SLasse Collin 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1393ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1700a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1790a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1800a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1833ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 203681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2199361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 246a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 247a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 256b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 268bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 269bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 270990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 271990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 272990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 273990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 284804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2938f827a14SWill Deacon depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 29867640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 300939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 301939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 302939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 303939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30574c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30674c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30763c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 30974c3cbe3SAl Viro 310633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 311633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 312633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 313633b4545SEric Paris help 314f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 315633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 316633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 317633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 318633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 319633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 320633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 321633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 322633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 323633b4545SEric Paris 324d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 325764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 326d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 327391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 335*02fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 348abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 461c903ff83SMike Travis 462c903ff83SMike Travischoice 463c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 46431c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 465c903ff83SMike Travis 466c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 467c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 468687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 469c903ff83SMike Travis help 470c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 471c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 472c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 473c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 474c903ff83SMike Travis 475f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 476a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4778008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 478f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 481f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 482bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 483bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4859b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4878008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 494a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 495a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4968008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 497a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 498a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 499a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 500a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 501a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 502c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 503c903ff83SMike Travis 504a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 505a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 506a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 507a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 508a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 509a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 51091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 51191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 51291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5132b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5142b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 51591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 51691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5172b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5182b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5192b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5202b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5212b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 522af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5232b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 524d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 52591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 526af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 527d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 528d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 529d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 53091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 53191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 53291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 5331fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to 53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended 53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker quiescent states. 53791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the 53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker full dynticks mode. 539d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 540c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 541c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 542c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 543c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 544f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 545c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 546c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 547c903ff83SMike Travis help 548c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 549c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5504d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5524d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5534d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5544d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5554d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 556c903ff83SMike Travis 557c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 558c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 559c903ff83SMike Travis 5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5648932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5668932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5678932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5688932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5698932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5708932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5718932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5728932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5738932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5748932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5788932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5798932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5808932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5818932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5828932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5868932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 587c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 588c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 589f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 590c903ff83SMike Travis default n 591c903ff83SMike Travis help 592c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 593c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 594c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 595c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 596c903ff83SMike Travis 597c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 598c903ff83SMike Travis 599c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 600c903ff83SMike Travis 6018bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6028bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 603b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ && SMP 6048bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6058bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 606ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in 607ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly. 608ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the 609ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency. 6108bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 611ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't 612ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney care about real-time response. 6138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 616c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 617f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 618c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 619c903ff83SMike Travis help 620f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 621f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 622f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 623c903ff83SMike Travis 62424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 62524278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 62627f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 62724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 62824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 62924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 63024278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 63124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 63224278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 63324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 63424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 63524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 63624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 63724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 63824278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 63924278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 643c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 644c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 645c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 646c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 647c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 648c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 649c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 650c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 651c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 652c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 653c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 654c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 655c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 656c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 657c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 658c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 659c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 660c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 661c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 66224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 66424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 67524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6783fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6793fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6803fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6813fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6823fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6833fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6843fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 6853fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 6863fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 6873fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6883fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 6893fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 6903fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to 6913fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded. 6923fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified 6933fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each 6943fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force 6953fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 6963fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6973fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs. 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 700c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 701c903ff83SMike Travis 7021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 703f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 722794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 723794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 724f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 725794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 726794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 727f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 728f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 729f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 730f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 731f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 732794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 733794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 734794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 7355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 741be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 742be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 743be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 744be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 745be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 746be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 747be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 748be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 749be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 750be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 751be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 752be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 753be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 754be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 755be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 758be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 759be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7651a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7661a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7671a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 7681a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7691a687c2eSMel Gorman help 7701a687c2eSMel Gorman If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7711a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 7721a687c2eSMel Gorman 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli it is references to the node the task is running on. 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 78523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 78623964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 7870dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 788ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 78923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 7905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 7915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 7925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 79445ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 79545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 796ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 797ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 798ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 79923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 80023964d2dSLi Zefan 801006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 802006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 803418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 804006cb992SPaul Menage help 805006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 806006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 80723964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 808006cb992SPaul Menage 80923964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 810006cb992SPaul Menage 811dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 81223964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 813dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 814dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 815dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 816dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 81708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 81808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 81908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 82008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 82108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 82208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 8231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 826d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 83323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 83423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 83523964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 83623964d2dSLi Zefan default y 83723964d2dSLi Zefan 838d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 839d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 840d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 841d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 84223964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 843d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 844e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 845e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 846e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 847e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 84823964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 849e552b661SPavel Emelianov 850c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 85100f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 85279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 853cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 85400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 85584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 85621acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 85700f0b825SBalbir Singh 85800f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 85984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 86084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 86184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 86284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 86300f0b825SBalbir Singh 86400f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 86584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 86684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 86784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 868c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 86900f0b825SBalbir Singh 870cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 871cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 872cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 873c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 87465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 875c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 876c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 877c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 878c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 879c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 880c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 881c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 882c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 883c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 884c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 885c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 886c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 88700a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 888627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 889627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 890c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 891a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 892c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 893a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 894a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 895a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 896a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 89743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 898a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 899a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 900a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 901a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 90200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 903c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 904e5671dfaSGlauber Costa bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 905c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL 906510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 907e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 908e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 909e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 910e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 911e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 912e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 913e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 914c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9152bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9162bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 9172bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL 9182bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9192bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9202bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 9212bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9222bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9232bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9262bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9272bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9282bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 9292bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 930e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 931e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 932e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 933e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 934e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 9352d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 936e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 937e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 938e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 939e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9407c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 9417c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 9427c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9437c941438SDhaval Giani help 9447c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9457c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9467c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9477c941438SDhaval Giani 9487c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9497c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9507c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9517c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9527c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9537c941438SDhaval Giani 954ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 955ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 956ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on EXPERIMENTAL 957ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 958ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 959ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 960ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 961ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 962ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 963ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 964ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 965ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9667c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9677c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9687c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9697c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9707c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9717c941438SDhaval Giani help 9727c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 97332bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9747c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9757c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 9767c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 9777c941438SDhaval Giani 9787c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9797c941438SDhaval Giani 980afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 98132e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 98279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 983afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 984afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 985afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 986afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 987afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 988afc24d49SVivek Goyal 989afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 990afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 991e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 992e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 993afc24d49SVivek Goyal 994afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 995e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 99679e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 99779e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 998c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 999afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1000afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1001afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1002afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1003afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1004afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1005afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1006afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1007afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1008afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1009afc24d49SVivek Goyal 101023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1011c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1012067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1013067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1014067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1015067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1016067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1017067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1018067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1019067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1020067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1021067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1022067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 10238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10256a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1026c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1027c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1028c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1029c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1030c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1031c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 103458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 103558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 103617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 103758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 103858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 103958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 104058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1041ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1042ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 104417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1045ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1046ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1047614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1048ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1049aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 1050aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1052e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 10535673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1054e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 10555673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1056aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1057aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1058aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1059aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1060aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 106174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10629bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 106317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 106474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 106512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1066692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 106774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 106874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1069d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1070d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10718dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 107217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1073d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1074d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1075d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1076d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 10778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 10788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 1079e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED 1080e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known 1081e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t 1082e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with 1083e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # the user namespace. 1084e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman bool 1085e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman default y 1086e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1087e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Networking 1088e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NET_9P = n 1089e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1090e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Filesystems 1091e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on 9P_FS = n 1092e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on AFS_FS = n 1093e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CEPH_FS = n 1094e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CIFS = n 1095e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on CODA_FS = n 1096e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on GFS2_FS = n 1097e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NCP_FS = n 1098e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NFSD = n 1099e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on NFS_FS = n 1100e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on OCFS2_FS = n 1101e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on XFS_FS = n 1102e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11035673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 11045673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1105e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 11065673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 11075673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 11085673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 11095673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 11105673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11115673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 11125673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11135091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11145091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11155091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 11165091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11175091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11185091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11195091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11205091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11215091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11225091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11235091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11245091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11255091faa4SMike Galbraith 11267af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11277af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11287af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11297af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11305d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11317af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11327af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11337af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11347af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11357af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11367af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11397af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11535d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1178f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1179f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1180f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1181f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1182f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1183f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1184f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1185f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1186f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1187f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1188f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1189f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1193f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1194c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1195c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1196dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1197dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1198c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1199c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1200c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 120196fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1202c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1203c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1204c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1205c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12063a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1207c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12080847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12090847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12100847062aSRandy Dunlap 1211b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1212b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1213b943c460SRandy Dunlap 12146a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1216f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1217f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1224af1839ebSCatalin Marinasconfig HAVE_UID16 1225af1839ebSCatalin Marinas bool 1226af1839ebSCatalin Marinas 1227ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1229af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1230ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1231ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1232ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1233ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1234b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 123626a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1237c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1238b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1239b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 124013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 124113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 124213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 124313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1244b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 124513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 124613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 124713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1248b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1249c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1250ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12517ac57a89SCatalin Marinasconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 12527ac57a89SCatalin Marinas bool 12537ac57a89SCatalin Marinas help 12547ac57a89SCatalin Marinas Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 12557ac57a89SCatalin Marinas 12561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 12576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 126871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 126971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 127071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 127171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 127271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 127471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 127571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 127671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 127771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 127971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1280d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1281712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 128245f035abSGreg Kroah-Hartman def_bool y 1283712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1284d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1285d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1287d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1288d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1289d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1290d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1291d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1292d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1293d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1294c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1296c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1297c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1298c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1299c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1300c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1301c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1302c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1303c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1304708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1305046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1306708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1308708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1309708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1310708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13118761f1abSRalf Baechle 1312e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13148761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 131515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1316e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1317e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1318e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1319e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1320e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13218761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13228761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 13238761f1abSRalf Baechle 13241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 133523f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1344448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1349fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1351448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1352fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1353fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1354fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1355fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1356fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1357fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1358fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1359b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1361448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1362b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1363b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1364b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1365b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1366b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1367b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1368b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1369e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1371448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1372e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1373e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1374e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1375e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1376e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1377e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1378e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1390ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1392ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1393ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1394ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1395ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1396ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1397ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 13986befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 13996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14026befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14036befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1406cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14070793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1408018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1409018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14100793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1411906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1412906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1413906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1414906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1415906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 141657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1418cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 141957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1420392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1421cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14224c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1423e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14240793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 142557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 142657c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1428dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 142957c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 143057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 143157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 143257c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14330793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14340793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14350793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14360793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14370793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 143957c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1440dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 144157c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14420793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14430793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14440793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14450793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14460793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1447906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1448906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1449906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1450906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1451906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1452906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1453906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1454906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1455906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1456906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1457906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1458906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1459906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14600793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1462f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1463f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1465f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14686a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1470f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 14713d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 14723d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 14736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 147461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 14753d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 14763d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 14773d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 14783d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 14793d137310SThomas Petazzoni 148041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 148141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1483f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 148441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 148541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 148641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 148741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 148841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 148941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1490b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1491b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1492b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1493b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1494b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1495b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1496b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1497692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1498b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1499b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1500b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1501b943c460SRandy Dunlap 150281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 150381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1504a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 150581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 150681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 150781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 150881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 150981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 151081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 151181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 151234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 151302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 151481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 151581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 151681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 151781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 151881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 151981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 152081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 152181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 152202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 152302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 152481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 152581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 152781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 152881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 152937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 153037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 153137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 153281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 153381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 153481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1535ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1536ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1538ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1539ea637639SJie Zhang help 1540ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1541ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1542ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1543ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1544ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1545ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1546ea637639SJie Zhang 1547ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1548ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1549ea637639SJie Zhang 1550ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1551ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1552ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1553ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1554ea637639SJie Zhang 1555ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1556ea637639SJie Zhang 1557125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1558b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1559125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1560125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1561125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1562125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 15635f87f112SIngo Molnar# 15645f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 15655f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 15665f87f112SIngo Molnar# 156797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 15685f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 156997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1570fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1571fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 15721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1574ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1575ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1576ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1577ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1578158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1579158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1580158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 15810f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1582158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1583158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1584ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1585ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1586ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 159266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16120b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16130b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1614826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1615826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1616826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1617826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 161891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 161991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 162091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1621826e4506SLinus Torvalds 16221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1627f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1628f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 16410d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1662106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1663106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 166448ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 166548ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 166648ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 166748ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 166848ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 166948ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 167048ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 167148ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1672106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1673106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1674106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1675106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1676106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1677ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1678ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1679ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1680ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1681ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1682106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1683106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1684106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1685106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1686106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1687106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1688ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1689ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1690ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1691ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1692ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1693ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1694ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1695ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1696ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1697ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1698ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1699ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1700ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1701ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1702ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1703ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1704ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1705ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1706ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1707ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1708ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1709ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1710ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1711ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1712ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1713ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1714ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1715ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1716ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1717ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1718ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1719ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1720ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 17210b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 17220b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 172398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 172498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 172598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 17265f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 17275f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 172898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 172998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1730692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 173198a79d6aSRusty Russell 17321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 17383a65dfe8SJens Axboe 17393a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1740e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1741e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1742e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1743e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 174416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 174516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 174616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 174716295becSSteffen Klassert 1748754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1749754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1750754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1751754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1752754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1753754b7b63SAndi Kleen 17544520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 17554520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 17564520c6a4SDavid Howells help 17574520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 17584520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 17594520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 17604520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 17614520c6a4SDavid Howells 17626beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1763