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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
275f76be617SAndi Kleen	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
277f76be617SAndi Kleen	default y
278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
28769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
28869369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
289b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
29069369a70SJosh Triplett	help
29169369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
29269369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
29369369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
29469369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
29569369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
29669369a70SJosh Triplett
2971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
299804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
303cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
304cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3087a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
310cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3117a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
313939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
314939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
315939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
316939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
31874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
31974c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32063c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32128a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
32274c3cbe3SAl Viro
323d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
324764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
325d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
326391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
327391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
328abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
33402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
339c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
349c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
362ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
363554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
380c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
3932813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
41819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4202813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
43219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
434f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
44419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
45319c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
464c903ff83SMike Travis
465c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
466e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
467e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
468c903ff83SMike Travis	help
469c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
470c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
471c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
472c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
473c903ff83SMike Travis
47428f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
475e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
476e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if PREEMPT
477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
478f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
481bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
482bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4849fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4859fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
487e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
488e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
49578cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT
49678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
49778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	default n
49878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	help
49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51083fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
51183fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
51283fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
51383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
51483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5178315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
51882d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney	bool
5198315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5218315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5228315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5248315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5266bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
52728f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5286bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5296bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5316bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
53791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
540d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5411fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
55799c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
563d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
564c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
565c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
566c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
567c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
56805c5df31SPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
569c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
570c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
571c903ff83SMike Travis	help
572c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
573c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5744d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5754d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5764d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5774d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
580c903ff83SMike Travis
581c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
582c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
583c903ff83SMike Travis
5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5868739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 64 if 64BIT
5878739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 32 if !64BIT
58847d631afSPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6128bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
61378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
616c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
617c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
618c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6238bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
629c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
63028f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
631c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
632c903ff83SMike Travis	help
633f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
63428f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
635f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
636c903ff83SMike Travis
63724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
63824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
63978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65021871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
65121871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
652a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
653a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
654a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
655a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
65626730f55SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT
65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
65821871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
65921871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
66021871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
66121871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
66221871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
66321871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
66421871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
66521871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
67121871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
67621871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney
67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
68024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6943fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6959a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
69628f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
697be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
707a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
708a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
709a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
71534ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
718911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
719911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
720911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7214568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
722911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
724676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
725676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
726676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
727911af505SPaul E. McKenney
728911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
729911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
730911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
731911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
732911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
740911af505SPaul E. McKenney
741911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
742911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
743911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
750911af505SPaul E. McKenney
751911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
754911af505SPaul E. McKenney
755911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
756911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
757911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
758911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
765911af505SPaul E. McKenney
766911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
767911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
768911af505SPaul E. McKenney
769911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
770911af505SPaul E. McKenney
771ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
772ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	bool
773ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	default n
774ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	help
775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  init is exec'ed.
781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
784c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
785c903ff83SMike Travis
786de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
787de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
788de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
789de5b56baSVivek Goyal
7901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
791f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
792de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
810794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
811794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
812fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
813f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
814361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
815794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
821f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
822f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
826794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
827794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
828794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8312240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
83223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
83423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
835361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
865*427934b8SPetr Mladekconfig NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
866*427934b8SPetr Mladek	int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
867*427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
868*427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
869*427934b8SPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK_NMI
870*427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
871*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
872*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
873*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
874*427934b8SPetr Mladek
875*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
876*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
877*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
878*427934b8SPetr Mladek
879*427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
880*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
881*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
882*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
883*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
884*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
885*427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
886*427934b8SPetr Mladek
8875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
89338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
89438ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
89538ff87f7SStephen Boyd
896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
903be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
90472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
90572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
90672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
90772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
90872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
90972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
91072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
91172b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
91272b252aeSMel Gorman
91372b252aeSMel Gorman#
914be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
915be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
917be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
918be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9336d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
94523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9472bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
948ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
94923964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
95445ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
95545ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
956ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
957ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
958ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
95923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
96023964d2dSLi Zefan
9613e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9623e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
9633e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
964c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
965a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
96779bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
96800f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
969a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
97000f0b825SBalbir Singh
971c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
972a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
973c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
974c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
976a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
977c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
978a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
979c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
980a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
981a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
982a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
983a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
98443d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
98507555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
986a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
987a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
988a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
98900a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
990c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9942bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1004e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
1025e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10267c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1027a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
10287c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10297c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10307c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10317c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10327c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10337c941438SDhaval Giani
10347c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10357c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10367c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10377c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10387c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10397c941438SDhaval Giani
1040ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1043ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1044ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1045ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1046ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1047ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1048ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1050ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10517c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10527c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10537c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10547c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10557c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10567c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
105732bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10587c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10597c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10607c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10617c941438SDhaval Giani
10627c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10637c941438SDhaval Giani
10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10736cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
10766cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1086489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1087489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1088489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1095afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1106afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1114afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
112089e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
112189e9b9e0STejun Heo
11226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Example controller"
11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  debugging information about the cgroups framework.
11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
115323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1154c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1155067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
11572e13ba54SIago López Galeiras	select PROC_CHILDREN
1158067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1159067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1160067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1161067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1162067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1163067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1164067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1165067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1166067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11686a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11692813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11706a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1171c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1172c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1173c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1174c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1175c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1176c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
117958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
118058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
118117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
118258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
118358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
118458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
118558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1186ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1187ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
118917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1190ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1191ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1192614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1193ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1194aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
119519c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11965673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1197aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1198aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1200e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1201e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1202d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1203d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1204d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1205e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1206aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1207aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
120874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12099bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
121017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
121174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
121212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1213692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
121474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
121574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1216d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1217d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
121917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1220d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1221d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1222d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1223d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12258dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12265091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12275091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12285091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12395d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12625d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1303c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1304c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1305dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1306dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1307c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1308c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1309c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
131096fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1311c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
131231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
131331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1314c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13153a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1316c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13170847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13180847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13190847062aSRandy Dunlap
1320b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1321b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1322b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1323657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1324657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1325657a5209SMike Frysinger
1326657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1327657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1328657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1329657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1330657a5209SMike Frysinger
1331657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1332657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1333657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1334657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1335657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1336657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1337657a5209SMike Frysinger
1338657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1339657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1340657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1341657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1342657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1343657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1344657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1345657a5209SMike Frysinger
1346657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1347657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1348657a5209SMike Frysinger
1349f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1350f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1351f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1352f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13536a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1355f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1356f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1363ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13652813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1366ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1367ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1368ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1369ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13702813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13712813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13722813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13732813893fSIulia Manda	help
13742813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13752813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13762813893fSIulia Manda
13772813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13782813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13792813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13802813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13812813893fSIulia Manda
13822813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13832813893fSIulia Manda
1384f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1385f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1386f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1387f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1388f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1389f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1390f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1391f6187769SFabian Frederick
1392f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1393f6187769SFabian Frederick
13946af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13966af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13976af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14006af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1404b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
14056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
140626a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1407c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1408b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1409b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
141013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
141113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
141213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
141313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1414b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
141513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
141613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
141713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1418b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1419c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1420ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
14226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
143371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
143471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
143571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
143671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
143771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
143971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
144071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
144171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
144271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
144471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1445d59745ceSMatt Mackall
14464d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
14474d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	bool
14484d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	default X86_64 && SMP
14494d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel
14502213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
14512213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	bool
14522213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	depends on KALLSYMS
14532213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
14542213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	help
14552213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
14562213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
14572213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
14582213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
14592213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
14602213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
14612213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  address encountered in the image.
14622213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
14632213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
14642213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
14652213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
14662213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
14672213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
1468d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1469d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14706a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
147174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1472d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1473d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1474d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1475d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1476d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1477d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1478d59745ceSMatt Mackall
147942a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
148042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
148142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
148242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
148342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1484c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1486c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1487c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1488c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1489c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1490c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1491c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1492c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1493c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1494708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1495046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1496708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1498708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1499708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1500708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15018761f1abSRalf Baechle
1502e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15048761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
150515f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1506e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1507e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1508e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1509e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1510e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15136a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
152223f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
152803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
152903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
153062b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
153103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
153203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
153303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
153403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
153503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1539448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1544fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1546448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1547fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1548fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1549fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1550fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1551fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1552fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1553fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1554b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1556448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1557b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1558b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1559b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1560b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1561b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1562b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1563b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1564e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1566448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1567e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1568e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1569e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1570e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1571e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1572e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1573e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1574f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1575f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1576e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1577f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1578f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1579f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1580f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1581f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1582f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1583f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
15841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1595ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1597ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1598ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1599ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1600ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1601ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1602ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1603d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1604d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1605d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1606d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1607d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1608d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1609d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1610d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1611d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1612d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1613a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD
1614a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1615a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	select ANON_INODES
1616a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
1617a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	help
1618a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1619a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  handle page faults in userland.
1620a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1621657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1622657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1623657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1624657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1625657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1626657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1627657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1628657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1629657a5209SMike Frysinger
16305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16426befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16436befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16445d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16456befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16466befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16476befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16486befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16496befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16506befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1651cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16520793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1653018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1654018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16550793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1656906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1657906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1658906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1659906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1660906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
166157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16620793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1663cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
166457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1665392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1666cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16674c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1668e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
166983fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16700793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
167157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
167257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16730793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1674dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
167557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
167657c0c15bSIngo Molnar
167757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
167857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16800793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16810793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16820793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16830793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16840793a61dSThomas Gleixner
168557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1686dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
168757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16880793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16890793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16900793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16910793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16920793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1693906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1694906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1695906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1696cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1697906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1698906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1699906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1701906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1702906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1703906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1704906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1705906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17060793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17070793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1708f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1709f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1711f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17122aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17132aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17152aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1716f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
171741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
171841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1720f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
172141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
172241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
172341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
172441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
172541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
172641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1727b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1728b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1729b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1730b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1731b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1732b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1733b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1734692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1735b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1736b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1737b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1738b943c460SRandy Dunlap
173981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
174081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1741a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
174281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
174381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
174481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
174581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
174681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
174781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
174881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
174934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
175002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
175181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
175281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
175381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
175481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
175581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
175681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
175781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
175881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
175902f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
176002f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
176181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
176281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
176481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
176581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
176637291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
176737291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
176837291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
176981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
177081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
177181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1772c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1773c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1774c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB
1775c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1776c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1777c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new SLABs. This
1778c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1779c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1780c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
1781345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1782345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1783b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1784345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1785345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1786345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1787345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1788345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1789345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1790345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1791345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1792ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1793ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1795ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1796ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1797ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1798ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1799ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1800ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1801ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1802ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1803ea637639SJie Zhang
1804ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1805ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1806ea637639SJie Zhang
1807ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1808ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1809ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1810ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1811ea637639SJie Zhang
1812ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1813ea637639SJie Zhang
1814091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1815091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1816091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1817091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1818091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1819d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1820091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1821091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1822091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1823091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1824091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1825091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
182682c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1827091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1828091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1829091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1830091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
183182c04ff8SPeter Foley
1832125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1833b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1834125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1835125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1836125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1837125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18385f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18395f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18405f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18415f87f112SIngo Molnar#
184297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18435f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
184497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1845fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1846fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
18471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1849ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1850ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1851ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1852ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1853158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1854158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1855158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
18560f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1857158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1858158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1859ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18606341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1861ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
186766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
186911097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18880b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18890b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1890826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1891826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1892826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1893826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
189491e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
189591e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
189691e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1897826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1903f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1904f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
190819c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19170d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1937106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1938106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1939106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1940091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1941106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1942106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1943106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1944106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1945106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1946228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1947228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1948228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1949228c37ffSDavid Howells
1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1955106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1956106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1957106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1958106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1959106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1960106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1961ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1962d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1963d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1964d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1965d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1966d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1967d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1968d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1969d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1970d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1971d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1972d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1973ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1974ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1981ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1982ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1983ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1984ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1985ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1986ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
200522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
200622753674SMichal Marek	string
200722753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
200822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
200922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
201022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
201122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
201222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
201322753674SMichal Marek
2014beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2015beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2016beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2017beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2018beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2019b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2020b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2021beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2022b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2023beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2024b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2025b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2026beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2027b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2028b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2030b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2031b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2032b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2033beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2034beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2036beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2038beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2039beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2044beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2045beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2046beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2047beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2048beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2049beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2050beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
20520b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20530b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20546c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20556c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20566c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20576c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
205898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
205998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
206098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20615f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20625f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
206398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
206498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2065692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
206698a79d6aSRusty Russell
20673a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2068e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2069e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2070e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2071e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
207216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
207316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
207416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
207516295becSSteffen Klassert
2076754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2077754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2078754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
2079754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
2080754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
2081754b7b63SAndi Kleen
20824520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20834520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20844520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20854520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20864520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20874520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20884520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20894520c6a4SDavid Howells
20906beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2091