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 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin 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 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 28869369a70SJosh Triplett default y 28969369a70SJosh Triplett help 29069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29569369a70SJosh Triplett 2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 298804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 31567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 318939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 319939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32674c3cbe3SAl Viro 327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 42119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 465c903ff83SMike Travis 466c903ff83SMike Travischoice 467c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 46831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 469c903ff83SMike Travis 470c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 471c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 472687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 473016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 474c903ff83SMike Travis help 475c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 477c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 478c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 479c903ff83SMike Travis 480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 481a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4829fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 48353614714SJames Hogan select IRQ_WORK 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 485f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 486f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 488bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 489bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4919fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4929fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4958008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 5009b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 502c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 503c903ff83SMike Travis 504a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 505127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 506a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 507a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 508ab74fdfdSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and, in the old days, TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. 509a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 5108315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 5118315f422SPaul E. McKenney bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch" 5128315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 5138315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5148315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5158315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5168315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5178315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5188315f422SPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 5198315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5206bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 5216bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5226bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5236bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5246bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5256bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5266bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5276bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 52891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 52991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 53091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5312b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5322b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 53391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5352b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5362b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5372b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5382b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5392b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 540af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5412b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 542d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 54391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 544af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 545d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 546d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 547d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 54891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 54991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 55091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5521fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 567d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 56899c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 569d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 570d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 573d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 574d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 575c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 576c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 577c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 578c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 579f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 580c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 581c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 582c903ff83SMike Travis help 583c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 584c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5854d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5864d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5874d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5884d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5894d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5904d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 591c903ff83SMike Travis 592c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 593c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 594c903ff83SMike Travis 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 622c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 623c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 624f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 625c903ff83SMike Travis default n 626c903ff83SMike Travis help 627c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 628c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 629c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 630c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 631c903ff83SMike Travis 632c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 633c903ff83SMike Travis 634c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 635c903ff83SMike Travis 6368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6383451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 641c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 642c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 643c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 644c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 645c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 646c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 647c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6488bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 649c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 650c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 654c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 655f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 656c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 657c903ff83SMike Travis help 658f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 659f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 660f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 661c903ff83SMike Travis 66224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 66427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 67624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 682c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 683c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 684c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 685c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 686c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 687c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 688c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 689c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 690c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 691c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 692c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 693c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 694c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 695c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 696c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 697c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 698c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 699c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 70024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 70524278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 70624278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 70724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 70824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 70924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 71024278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 71124278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 71224278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 71324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 71424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 71524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7179a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 7193fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7213fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7223fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7233fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7243fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7253fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 728a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 729a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 730a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 731a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 732a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 733a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 734a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7353fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 73634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7373fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7383fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 739911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 740911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 747911af505SPaul E. McKenney 748911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 749911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 750f4579fc5SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 752911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 754676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 755676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 761911af505SPaul E. McKenney 762911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 763911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 764f4579fc5SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 765911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 769676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 770676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 772911af505SPaul E. McKenney 773911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 775676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 776911af505SPaul E. McKenney 777911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 778911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 779911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 780911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 781911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 782676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 783676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 784676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 785676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 786676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 787676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 788911af505SPaul E. McKenney 789911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 790911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 791911af505SPaul E. McKenney 792911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 793911af505SPaul E. McKenney 794c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 795c903ff83SMike Travis 796de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 797de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 798de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 799de5b56baSVivek Goyal 8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 801f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 802de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 820794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 821794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 822794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 824361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 825794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 82623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 831f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 832f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 833f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 834f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 835f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 836794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 837794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 838794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 841*2240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 845361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 8755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 88138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 88238ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 88338ff87f7SStephen Boyd 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 890be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 891be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9031a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9041a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9051a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 9061a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9071a687c2eSMel Gorman help 9086d56a410SPaul Gortmaker If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9091a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 9101a687c2eSMel Gorman 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9196d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 92323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 92423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 9252bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 926ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 93245ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 93345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 934ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 93823964d2dSLi Zefan 939006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 940006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 941418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 942006cb992SPaul Menage help 943006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 944006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 94523964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 946006cb992SPaul Menage 94723964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 948006cb992SPaul Menage 949dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 95023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 951dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 952dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 953dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 954dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 95508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 95608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 95708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 95808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 95908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 96008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 9611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 964d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 97223964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 97323964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 97423964d2dSLi Zefan default y 97523964d2dSLi Zefan 976d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 977d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 978d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 979d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 98023964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 981d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 982e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 983e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 984e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 985e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 98623964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 987e552b661SPavel Emelianov 988c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 98900f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 99079ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 99179bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 99384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 99421acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 99500f0b825SBalbir Singh 99600f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 99784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 998f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 99984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 100084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 100100f0b825SBalbir Singh 100200f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 100384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 100484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 100584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 1006c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 100700f0b825SBalbir Singh 1008c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 100965e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 1010c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 1011c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 1012c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 1013c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 1014c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 1015c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 1016c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 1017c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 1018c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 1019c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 1020c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 1021c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 102200a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 1023627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 1024627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 1025c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 1026a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 1027c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 1028a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 1029a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 1030a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 1031a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 103243d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 103307555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 1034a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 1035a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1036a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 103700a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1038c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 103919c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 104019c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 1041510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 1042e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 1043e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 1044e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 1045e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 1046e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 1047e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 1048e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 1049c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10502ee06468SVladimir Davydov WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means 10512ee06468SVladimir Davydov allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there 10522ee06468SVladimir Davydov are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option 10532ee06468SVladimir Davydov unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development 10542ee06468SVladimir Davydov purposes. 10552ee06468SVladimir Davydov 10562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 105819c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 10592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 10602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 10612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 10622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10652bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10662bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10702bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1071e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1072e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1073e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1074e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1075e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10762d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1077e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1078e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1079e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1080e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10817c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10827c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10837c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10847c941438SDhaval Giani help 10857c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10867c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10877c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10887c941438SDhaval Giani 10897c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10907c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10917c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10927c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10937c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10947c941438SDhaval Giani 1095ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1096ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1097ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1098ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1099ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1100ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1101ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1102ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1103ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1104ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1105ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11067c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11077c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11087c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11097c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11107c941438SDhaval Giani help 11117c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 111232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11137c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11147c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 11157c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 11167c941438SDhaval Giani 11177c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11187c941438SDhaval Giani 1119afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 112032e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 112179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1122afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1123afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1126afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1127afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1128afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1130e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1131e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1132afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1133afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1134e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 113579e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 113679e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1137c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1138afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1139afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1140afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1141afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1142afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1143afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1144afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1145afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1146afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1147afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1148afc24d49SVivek Goyal 114923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1150c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1151067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1152067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1153067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1154067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1155067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1157067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1158067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1159067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1160067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1161067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11646a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1165c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1166c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1167c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1168c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1169c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1170c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11718dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 117358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 117458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 117517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 117658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 117758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 117858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 117958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1180ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1181ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 118317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1184ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1185ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1186614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1187ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1188aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 118919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11905673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1191aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1192aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1193aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1194e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1195e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1196e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1197e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1198e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1199e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1200e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1201aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1202aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 120374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12049bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 120517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 120674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 120712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1208692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 120974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 121074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1211d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1212d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 121417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1215d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1216d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1217d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1218d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12215091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12225091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12235091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12245091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12255091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12265091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12275091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12285091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12295091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12305091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12315091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12325091faa4SMike Galbraith 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12345d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12575d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1298c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1299c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1300dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1301dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1302c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1303c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1304c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 130596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1306c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1307c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1308c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1309c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13103a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1311c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13120847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13130847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13140847062aSRandy Dunlap 1315b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1316b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1317b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1318657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1320657a5209SMike Frysinger 1321657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1323657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1325657a5209SMike Frysinger 1326657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1327657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1328657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1329657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1330657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1331657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1332657a5209SMike Frysinger 1333657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1334657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1335657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1336657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1337657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1338657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1339657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1340657a5209SMike Frysinger 1341657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1342657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1343657a5209SMike Frysinger 13446a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1346f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1347f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1354ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1356af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1357ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1358ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1359ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1360ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1361f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1362f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1363f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1364f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1365f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1366f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1367f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1368f6187769SFabian Frederick 1369f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1370f6187769SFabian Frederick 13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13766af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1381b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 138326a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1384c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1385b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1386b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 138713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 138813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 138913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 139013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1391b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 139213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 139313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 139413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1395b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1396c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1397ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 141071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 141171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 141271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 141371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 141471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 141771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 141871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 141971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 142171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1422d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1423d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1424d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 142674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1427d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1428d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1429d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1430d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1431d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1432d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1433d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1434c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1436c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1437c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1438c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1439c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1440c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1441c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1442c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1443c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1444708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1445046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1446708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1448708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1449708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1450708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14518761f1abSRalf Baechle 1452e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14548761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 145515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1456e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1457e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1458e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1459e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1460e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 147223f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 147803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 147903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 148062b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 148103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 148203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 148303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 148403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 148503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1489448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1494fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1496448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1497fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1498fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1499fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1500fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1501fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1502fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1503fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1504b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1506448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1507b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1508b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1509b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1510b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1511b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1512b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1513b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1514e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1516448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1517e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1518e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1519e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1520e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1521e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1522e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1523e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1535ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1537ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1538ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1539ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1540ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1541ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1542ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1543d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1544d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1545d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1546d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1547d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1548d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1549d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1550d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1551d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1552d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1553657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1555657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1556657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1557657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1558657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1559657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1560657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1561657a5209SMike Frysinger 15626befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15645d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15656befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15666befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15686befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1571cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15720793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1573018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1574018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15750793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1576906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1577906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1578906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1579906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1580906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 158157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15820793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1583cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 158457c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1585392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1586cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15874c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1588e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 15890793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 159057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 159157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15920793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1593dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 159457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 159557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 159657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 159757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15980793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15990793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16000793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16010793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16020793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 160457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1605dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 160657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16070793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16080793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16090793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16100793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1612906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1613906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1614906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1615906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1616906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1617906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1621906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1622906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1623906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1624906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16250793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1627f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1628f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1630f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16312aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16342aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1635f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 163641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 163741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1639f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 164041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 164141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 164241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 164341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 164441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 164541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1646b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1647b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1648b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1649b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1650b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1651b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1652b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1653692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1654b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1655b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1656b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1657b943c460SRandy Dunlap 165881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 165981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1660a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 166181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 166281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 166381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 166481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 166581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 166681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 166781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 166834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 166902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 167081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 167181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 167281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 167381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 167481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 167681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 167802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 167902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 168081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 168181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16826a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 168381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 168481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 168537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 168637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 168737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 168981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 169081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1691345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1692345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1693b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1694345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1695345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1696345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1697345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1698345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1699345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1700345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1701345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1702ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1703ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17046a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1705ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1706ea637639SJie Zhang help 1707ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1708ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1709ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1710ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1711ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1712ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1713ea637639SJie Zhang 1714ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1715ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1716ea637639SJie Zhang 1717ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1718ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1719ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1720ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1721ea637639SJie Zhang 1722ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1723ea637639SJie Zhang 172482c04ff8SPeter Foleyconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 172582c04ff8SPeter Foley bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 172682c04ff8SPeter Foley depends on KEYS 172782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 172882c04ff8SPeter Foley Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 172982c04ff8SPeter Foley the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 173082c04ff8SPeter Foley by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 173182c04ff8SPeter Foley userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 173282c04ff8SPeter Foley keys already in the keyring. 173382c04ff8SPeter Foley 173482c04ff8SPeter Foley Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 173582c04ff8SPeter Foley 1736125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1737b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1738125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1739125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1740125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1741125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17425f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17435f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17445f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17455f87f112SIngo Molnar# 174697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17475f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 174897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1749fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1750fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 17511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1753ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1754ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1755ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1756ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1757158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1758158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1759158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 17600f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1761158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1762158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1763ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1764ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1765ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 177166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 177311097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17920b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17930b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1794826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1795826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1796826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1797826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 179891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 179991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 180091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1801826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1807f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1808f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 181219c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18210d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1841106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1842106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1843106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1844b56e5a17SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 184548ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 184648ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 184748ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 184848ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 184948ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 185048ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 185148ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 185248ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1853106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1854106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1855106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1856106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1857106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1858ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1859ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1860ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1861ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1862ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1863106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1864106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1865106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1866106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1867106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1868106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1869ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1870d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1871d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1872d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1873d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1874d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1875d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1876d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1877d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1878d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1879d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1880d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1881ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1882ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1883ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1885ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1886ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1887ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1888ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1889ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1890ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1891ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1892ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1893ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1894ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1895ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1896ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1906ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1908ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 191322753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 191422753674SMichal Marek string 191522753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 191622753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 191722753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 191822753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 191922753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 192022753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 192122753674SMichal Marek 1922beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1923beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1924beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1925beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1926beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make 1927beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin modules_install' is run. 1928beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1929beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the 1930beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin choice made in "Compression algorithm". 1931beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1932beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip 1933beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin and xz compressed modules. 1934beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1935beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel 1936beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that 1937beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed. 1938beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1939beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside 1940beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole 1941beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin initrd or initramfs instead. 1942beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1943beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is 1944beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to 1945beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin other layer the uncompressed but signed payload. 1946beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1947beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1948beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1949beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1950beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1953beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1954beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1955beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1956beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1957beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1958beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1960beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1961beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 19650b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19660b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 196798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 196898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 196998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19705f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19715f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 197298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 197398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1974692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 197598a79d6aSRusty Russell 19761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 19823a65dfe8SJens Axboe 19833a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1984e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1985e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1986e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1987e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 198816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 198916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 199016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 199116295becSSteffen Klassert 1992754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1993754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1994754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1995754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1996754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1997754b7b63SAndi Kleen 19984520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19994520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20004520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20014520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20024520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20034520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20044520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20054520c6a4SDavid Howells 20066beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2007