180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 121e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 265990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 267990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 268990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 278804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2878f827a14SWill Deacon depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 29267640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 294939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 295939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 296939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 297939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29974c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30074c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30163c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 30374c3cbe3SAl Viro 304633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 305633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 306633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 307633b4545SEric Paris help 308f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 309633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 310633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 311633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 312633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 313633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 314633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 315633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 316633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 317633b4545SEric Paris 318d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 319764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 320d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 323abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 324abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 325abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 32902fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 334c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 344c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 346391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 374c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 41119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 42419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 43519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 454c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 455c903ff83SMike Travis 456c903ff83SMike Travischoice 457c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 45831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 459c903ff83SMike Travis 460c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 461c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 462687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 463016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 464c903ff83SMike Travis help 465c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 466c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 467c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 468c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 469c903ff83SMike Travis 470f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 471a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4729fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 473f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 474f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 475f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 476f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 477bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 478bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4809fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4819fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4829b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4839b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4848008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4859b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4879b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 491c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 492c903ff83SMike Travis 493a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 494127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 495a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 496a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 497a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 498a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 4996bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 5006bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5016bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5026bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5036bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5046bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5056bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5066bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 50791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 50891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 50991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5102b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5112b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 51291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5142b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5152b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5162b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5172b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5182b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 519af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5202b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 521d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 52291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 523af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 524d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 525d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 526d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 52791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 52891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 52991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 5308b438766SFrederic Weisbecker default CONTEXT_TRACKING 5311fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 53291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to 53391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended 53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker quiescent states. 53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the 53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker full dynticks mode. 537d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 538c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 539c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 540c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 541c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 542f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 543c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 544c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 545c903ff83SMike Travis help 546c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 547c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5484d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5494d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5504d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5524d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5534d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 554c903ff83SMike Travis 555c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 556c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 557c903ff83SMike Travis 5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5648932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5668932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5678932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5688932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5698932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5708932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5718932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5728932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5738932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5748932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5788932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5798932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5808932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5818932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5828932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 585c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 586c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 587f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 588c903ff83SMike Travis default n 589c903ff83SMike Travis help 590c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 591c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 592c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 593c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 594c903ff83SMike Travis 595c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 596c903ff83SMike Travis 597c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 598c903ff83SMike Travis 5998bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6008bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6013451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6028bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6038bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 604c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 605c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 606c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 607c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 608c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 609c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 610c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 612c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 613c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 617c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 618f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 619c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 620c903ff83SMike Travis help 621f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 622f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 623f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 624c903ff83SMike Travis 62524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 62624278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 62727f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 62824278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 62924278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 63024278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 63124278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 63224278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 63324278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 63424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 63524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 63624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 63724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 63824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 63924278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 644c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 645c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 646c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 647c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 648c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 649c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 650c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 651c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 652c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 653c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 654c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 655c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 656c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 657c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 658c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 659c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 660c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 661c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 662c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 67524278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 67624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6793fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6809a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6813fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6823fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6833fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6843fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6853fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 6863fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 6873fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 6883fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6893fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 6903fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 691a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 692a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 693a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 694a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 695a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 696a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 697a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 69934ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 702911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 703911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 704911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 705911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 706676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 707676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 708676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 709676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 710911af505SPaul E. McKenney 711911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 712911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 71373c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 714911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 715911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 716911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 717676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 718676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 719676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 720676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 721676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 722676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 724911af505SPaul E. McKenney 725911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 726911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 72773c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 728911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 731676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 732676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 735911af505SPaul E. McKenney 736911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 739911af505SPaul E. McKenney 740911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 744911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney 752911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney 755911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney 757c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 758c903ff83SMike Travis 7591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 760f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 778794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 779794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 780794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 781f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 782794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 783794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 784f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 785f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 786f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 787f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 788f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 789794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 790794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 791794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 7925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 79838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 79938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 807be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 812be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 813be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 814be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 816be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 817be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 819be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 820be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 821be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 822be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 823be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 824be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8251a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8261a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8271a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 8281a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8291a687c2eSMel Gorman help 8301a687c2eSMel Gorman If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8311a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 8321a687c2eSMel Gorman 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli it is references to the node the task is running on. 842be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 843be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 844be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 84523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 84623964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 8470dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 848ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 84923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 85445ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 85545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 856ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 857ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 858ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 85923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 86023964d2dSLi Zefan 861006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 862006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 863418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 864006cb992SPaul Menage help 865006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 866006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 86723964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 868006cb992SPaul Menage 86923964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 870006cb992SPaul Menage 871dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 87223964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 873dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 874dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 875dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 876dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 87708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 87808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 87908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 88008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 88108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 88208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 8831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 886d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 89423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 89523964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 89623964d2dSLi Zefan default y 89723964d2dSLi Zefan 898d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 899d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 900d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 901d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 90223964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 903d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 904e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 905e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 906e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 907e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 90823964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 909e552b661SPavel Emelianov 910c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 91100f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 91279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 913cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 91400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 91584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 91621acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 91700f0b825SBalbir Singh 91800f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 91984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 920f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 92184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 92284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 92300f0b825SBalbir Singh 92400f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 92584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 92684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 92784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 928c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 92900f0b825SBalbir Singh 930cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 931cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 932cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 933c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 93465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 935c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 936c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 937c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 938c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 939c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 940c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 941c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 942c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 943c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 944c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 945c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 946c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 94700a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 948627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 949627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 950c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 951a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 952c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 953a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 954a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 955a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 956a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 95743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 958a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 959a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 960a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 961a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 96200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 963c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96419c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 96519c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 966510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 967e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 968e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 969e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 970e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 971e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 972e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 973e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 974c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9752bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9762bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 97719c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 9782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9792bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9802bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 9812bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9822bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9832bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9842bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9852bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9862bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9872bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9882bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 9892bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 990e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 991e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 992e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 993e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 994e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 9952d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 996e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 997e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 998e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 999e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10007c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10017c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10027c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10037c941438SDhaval Giani help 10047c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10057c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10067c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10077c941438SDhaval Giani 10087c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10097c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10107c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10117c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10127c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10137c941438SDhaval Giani 1014ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1016ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1021ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1022ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1023ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1024ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10257c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10267c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10277c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10287c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10297c941438SDhaval Giani help 10307c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 103132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10327c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10337c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10347c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10357c941438SDhaval Giani 10367c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10377c941438SDhaval Giani 1038afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 103932e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 104079ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1041afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1042afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1043afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1044afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1045afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1046afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1047afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1048afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1049e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1050e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1051afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1052afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1053e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 105479e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 105579e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1056c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1057afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1058afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1059afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1060afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1062afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1063afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1064afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1065afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1066afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1067afc24d49SVivek Goyal 106823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1069c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1070067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1071067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1072067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1073067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1074067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1075067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1076067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1077067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1078067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1079067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1080067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 10818dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10836a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1084c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1085c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1086c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1087c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1088c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1089c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 109258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 109358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 109417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 109658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 109758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 109858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1099ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1100ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 110217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1103ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1104ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1105614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1106ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1107aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 110819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 1109e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 11105673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1111e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11125673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1113aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1114aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1115aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1116e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1117e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1118e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1119e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1120e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1121e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1122e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1123aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1124aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 112574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11269bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 112717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 112874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 112912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1130692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 113174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 113274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1133d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1134d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11358dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 113617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1137d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1138d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1139d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1140d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11428dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 1143e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED 1144e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known 1145e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t 1146e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with 1147e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # the user namespace. 1148e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman bool 1149e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman default y 1150e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1151e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Filesystems 1152e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on XFS_FS = n 1153e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11545673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 11555673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1156e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 11575673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 11585673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 11595673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 11605673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 11615673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11625673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 11635673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11645091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11655091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11665091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 11675091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11685091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11695091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11705091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11715091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11725091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11735091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11745091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11755091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11765091faa4SMike Galbraith 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11815d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12045d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1231f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1232f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1233f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1234f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1235f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1236f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1240f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1241f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1242f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1243f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1244f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1245c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1246c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1247dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1248dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1249c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1250c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1251c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125296fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1253c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1254c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1255c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1256c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12573a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1258c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12590847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12600847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12610847062aSRandy Dunlap 1262b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1263b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1264b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1265657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1266657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1267657a5209SMike Frysinger 1268657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1269657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1270657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1271657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1272657a5209SMike Frysinger 1273657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1276657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger 1280657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1281657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1283657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger 12916a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1293f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1294f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1301ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1303af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1304ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1305ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1306ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1307ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1308b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 131026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1311c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1312b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1313b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 131413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 131513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 131613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 131713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1318b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 131913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 132013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 132113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1322b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1323c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1324ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 133771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 133871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 133971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 134071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 134171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 134471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 134571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 134671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1349d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1350d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1351d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 135374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1354d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1355d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1356d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1357d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1358d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1359d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1360d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1361c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1363c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1364c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1365c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1366c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1367c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1368c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1369c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1370c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1371708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1372046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1373708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1375708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1376708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1377708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13788761f1abSRalf Baechle 1379e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13818761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 138215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1383e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1384e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1385e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1386e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1387e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 139923f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1408448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1413fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1415448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1416fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1417fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1418fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1419fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1420fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1421fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1422fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1423b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1425448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1426b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1427b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1428b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1429b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1430b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1431b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1432b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1433e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1435448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1436e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1437e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1438e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1439e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1440e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1441e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1442e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1454ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1456ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1457ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1458ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1459ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1460ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1461ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1462657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1469657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger 14716befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14786befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1479cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14800793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1481018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1482018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1484906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1485906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1486906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1487906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1488906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 148957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1491cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 149257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1493392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1494cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14954c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1496e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14970793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 149857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 149957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1501dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 150257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 150357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 150457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 150557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15060793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15070793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15080793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15090793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15100793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 151257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1513dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 151457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15150793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15180793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1520906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1521906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1522906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1523906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1524906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1525906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1526906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1527906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1528906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1529906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1530906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1531906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1532906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15330793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1535f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1536f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1538f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15402aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15416a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1543f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 154441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 154541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1547f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 154841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 154941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 155041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 155141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 155241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 155341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1554b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1555b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1556b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1557b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1558b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1559b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1560b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1561692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1562b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1563b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1564b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1565b943c460SRandy Dunlap 156681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 156781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1568a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 156981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 157181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 157381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 157481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157581819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 157634013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 157702f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 157881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 158081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 158181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158281819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 158381819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 158481819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 158581819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 158602f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 158702f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 158881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 158981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15906a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 159281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159337291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 159437291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 159537291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 159681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 159881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1599345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1600345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1601345c905dSJoonsoo Kim depends on SLUB 1602345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1603345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1604345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1605345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1606345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1607345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1608345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1609345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1610ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1611ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16126a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1613ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1614ea637639SJie Zhang help 1615ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1616ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1617ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1618ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1619ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1620ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1621ea637639SJie Zhang 1622ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1623ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1624ea637639SJie Zhang 1625ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1626ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1627ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1628ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1629ea637639SJie Zhang 1630ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1631ea637639SJie Zhang 1632125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1633b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1634125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1635125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1636125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1637125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16395f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16405f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16415f87f112SIngo Molnar# 164297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16435f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 164497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1645fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1646fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1649ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1650ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1651ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1652ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1653158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1654158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1655158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16560f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1657158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1658158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1659ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1660ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1661ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 166766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 1669*11097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16880b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16890b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1690826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1691826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1692826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1693826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 169491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 169591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 169691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1697826e4506SLinus Torvalds 16981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1703f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1704f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 170819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17170d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1737106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1738106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1739106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 174048ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 174148ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 174248ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 174348ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 174448ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 174548ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 174648ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 174748ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1748106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1749106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1750106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1751106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1752106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1758106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1759106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1760106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1764ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1765d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1766d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1767d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1768d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1769d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1770d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1771d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1772d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1773d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1774d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1775d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1776ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1777ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1778ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1779ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1781ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1782ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1783ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1784ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1785ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1786ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1787ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1788ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1789ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1790ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1791ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1796ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1797ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1798ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1799ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1800ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 180822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 180922753674SMichal Marek string 181022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 181122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 181222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 181322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 181422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 181522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 181622753674SMichal Marek 18170b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18180b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 181998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 182098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 182198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18225f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18235f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 182498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 182598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1826692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 182798a79d6aSRusty Russell 18281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 18343a65dfe8SJens Axboe 18353a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1836e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1837e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1838e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1839e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 184016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 184116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 184216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 184316295becSSteffen Klassert 1844754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1845754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1846754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1847754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1848754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1849754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18504520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18514520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18524520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18534520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18544520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18554520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18564520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18574520c6a4SDavid Howells 18586beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1859