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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
56*4bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
57*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
59*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
60*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
65*4bb16672SJiri Slaby
66*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68*4bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
69*4bb16672SJiri 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
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1183ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1490a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1600a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1623ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1633ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1643ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1653ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
182681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
187bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
188bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
189bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
190bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
191bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
192bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
193bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
194bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
195bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
1961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1989361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
221a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
225a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
226a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
22919c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
235b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
247bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
248bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
249990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
250990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
251990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
252990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
253990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
254990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
255990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
256990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
257990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
258990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
259990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
260990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
2611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
263804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2728f827a14SWill Deacon	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
27767640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
279939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
280939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
281939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
282939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
28474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
28574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
28663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
28874c3cbe3SAl Viro
289633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
290633b4545SEric Paris	bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
291633b4545SEric Paris	depends on AUDIT
292633b4545SEric Paris	help
293f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds	  The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
294633b4545SEric Paris	  CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
295633b4545SEric Paris	  but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
296633b4545SEric Paris	  previously set.  On systems which use systemd or a similar central
297633b4545SEric Paris	  process to restart login services this should be set to true.  On older
298633b4545SEric Paris	  systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
299633b4545SEric Paris	  start processes this should be set to false.  Setting this to true allows
300633b4545SEric Paris	  one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
301633b4545SEric Paris	  but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
302633b4545SEric Paris
303d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
304764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
305d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
306391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
307391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
308abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
309abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
310abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
313fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
31402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
316fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
317fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
318fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
319c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
320fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
321fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
323fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
324fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
325fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
329c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
332391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
333391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
334391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
335391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
337391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
343abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
344abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
346abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
348abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
353abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
359c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
361fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
39619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
40919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
42019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
42919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
439c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
440c903ff83SMike Travis
441c903ff83SMike Travischoice
442c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
44331c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
444c903ff83SMike Travis
445c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
446c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
447687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
448016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt	select IRQ_WORK
449c903ff83SMike Travis	help
450c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
451c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
452c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
453c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
454c903ff83SMike Travis
455f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
456a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
4579fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
461f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
462bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
463bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
464f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4659fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4669fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4698008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
4709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4759b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
476a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
477a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4788008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
479a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
480a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
481a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
482a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
483a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
484c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
485c903ff83SMike Travis
486a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
487a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
488a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
489a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
490a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
491a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
4926bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
4936bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
4946bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
4956bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
4966bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
4976bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
4986bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
4996bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
50091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
50191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
50291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
5032b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS
5042b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
50591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
50691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
5072b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5082b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
5092b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
5102b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
5112b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
512af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
5132b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker
514d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
51591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
516af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  adds unnecessary overhead.
517d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
518d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure say N
519d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
52091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
52191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
52291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
5238b438766SFrederic Weisbecker	default CONTEXT_TRACKING
5241fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
52591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
52691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
52791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  quiescent states.
52891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
52991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  full dynticks mode.
530d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
531c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
532c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
533c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
534c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
535f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
536c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
537c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
538c903ff83SMike Travis	help
539c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
540c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5414d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5424d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5434d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5444d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5454d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5464d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
547c903ff83SMike Travis
548c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
549c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
550c903ff83SMike Travis
5518932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5528932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5538932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
5548932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
5558932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
5568932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5578932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
5648932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
5668932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
5678932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
5688932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
5698932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
5708932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
5718932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5728932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
5738932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5748932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
578c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
579c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
580f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
581c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
582c903ff83SMike Travis	help
583c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
584c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
585c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
586c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
587c903ff83SMike Travis
588c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
589c903ff83SMike Travis
590c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
591c903ff83SMike Travis
5928bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
5938bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
5943451d024SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
5958bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
5968bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
597c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
598c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
599c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
600c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
601c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
602c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
603c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6048bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
605c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
606c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6078bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6088bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6098bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
610c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
611f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
612c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
613c903ff83SMike Travis	help
614f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
615f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
616f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
617c903ff83SMike Travis
61824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
62027f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
62224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
62324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
62424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
62524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
62624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
62724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
62824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
62924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
63024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
63124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
63224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
63324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
63424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
63524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
63624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
637c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
638c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  preempted RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working
639c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
640c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
641c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
642c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time CPU-bound thread.  The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
643c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
644c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
645c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
646c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
647c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
648c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
649c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
650c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
651c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
652c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
653c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
654c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
655c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
66224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
66424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney
67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6723fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
67334ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL"
6743fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
6753fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6763fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
6773fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
6783fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
6793fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
6803fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
6813fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
6823fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
6833fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
684a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
685a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
686a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
687a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
688a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
689a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
690a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
6913fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
69234ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
6933fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
6943fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
695911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
696911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
697911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
698911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
699911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time.
700911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs=
701911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter.
702911af505SPaul E. McKenney
703911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
704911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
70573c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
706911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
707911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
708911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
709911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs.
710911af505SPaul E. McKenney
711911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
712911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
71373c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
714911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
715911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU.  Additional CPUs
716911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot
717911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
718911af505SPaul E. McKenney
719911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
720911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
721911af505SPaul E. McKenney
722911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
723911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
724911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
725911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
726911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
727911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.
728911af505SPaul E. McKenney
729911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
730911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
731911af505SPaul E. McKenney
732911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
733911af505SPaul E. McKenney
734c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
735c903ff83SMike Travis
7361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
737f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
755794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
756794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
757794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
758f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
759794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
760794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
761f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
762f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
765f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
766794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
767794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
7695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	default y
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7991a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8001a687c2eSMel Gorman	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8011a687c2eSMel Gorman	default y
8021a687c2eSMel Gorman	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8031a687c2eSMel Gorman	help
8041a687c2eSMel Gorman	  If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8051a687c2eSMel Gorman	  machine.
8061a687c2eSMel Gorman
807be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
812be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
813be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
814be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  it is references to the node the task is running on.
816be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
817be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
81923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
82023964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
8210dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
822ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
82323964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
8275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
82845ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
82945ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
830ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
831ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
832ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
83323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
83423964d2dSLi Zefan
835006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
836006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
837418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
838006cb992SPaul Menage	help
839006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
840006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
84123964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
842006cb992SPaul Menage
84323964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
844006cb992SPaul Menage
845dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
84623964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
847dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
848dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
849dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
850dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
85108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
85208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
85308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
85408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
85508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
85608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
8571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
860d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
86723964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
86823964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
86923964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
87023964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
87123964d2dSLi Zefan
872d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
873d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
874d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
875d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
87623964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
877d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
878e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
879e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
880e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
881e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
88223964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
883e552b661SPavel Emelianov
884c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
88500f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
88679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
887cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
88800f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
88984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
89021acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
89100f0b825SBalbir Singh
89200f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
89384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
89484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
89584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
89684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
89700f0b825SBalbir Singh
89800f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
89984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
90084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
90184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
902c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
90300f0b825SBalbir Singh
904cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
905cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
906cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
907c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
90865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
909c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
910c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
911c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
912c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
913c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
914c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
915c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
916c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
917c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
918c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
919c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
920c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
92100a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
922627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
923627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
924c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
925a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
926c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
927a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
928a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
929a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
930a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
93143d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
932a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
933a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
934a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
935a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
93600a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
937c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
93819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
93919c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
940510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
941e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
942e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
943e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
944e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
945e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
946e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
947e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
948c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9492bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9502bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
95119c92399SKees Cook	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
9522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9532bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
9552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
9632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
964e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
965e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
966e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
967e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
968e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
9692d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
970e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
971e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
972e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
973e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9747c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
9757c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
9767c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9777c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9787c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9797c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9807c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9817c941438SDhaval Giani
9827c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9837c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9847c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9857c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9877c941438SDhaval Giani
988ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
989ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
990ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
991ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
992ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
993ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
994ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
995ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
996ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
997ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
998ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9997c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10007c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10017c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10027c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10037c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10047c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
100532bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10067c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10077c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10087c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10097c941438SDhaval Giani
10107c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10117c941438SDhaval Giani
1012afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
101332e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
101479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1015afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1016afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1017afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1018afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1019afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1020afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1021afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1022afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1023e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1024e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1025afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1026afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1027e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
102879e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
102979e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1030c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1031afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1032afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1033afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1034afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1035afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1036afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1037afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1038afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1039afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1040afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1041afc24d49SVivek Goyal
104223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1043c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1044067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1045067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1046067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1047067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1048067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1049067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1050067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1051067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1052067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1053067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1054067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
10558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1058c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1059c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
106658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
106758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
106817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
107058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
107258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1073ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1074ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
107617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1077ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1078ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1079614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1080ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1081aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
108219c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
1083e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
10845673a94cSEric W. Biederman	select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1085e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
10865673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1087aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1088aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1089aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1090e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1091e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1092e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1093e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1094e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1095e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1096e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1097aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1098aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
109974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11009bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
110117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
110274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
110312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1104692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
110574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
110674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1107d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1108d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
111017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1111d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1112d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1113d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1114d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
1117e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED
1118e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1119e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1120e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1121e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# the user namespace.
1122e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	bool
1123e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	default y
1124e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
1125e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# Filesystems
1126e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on XFS_FS = n
1127e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
11285673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
11295673a94cSEric W. Biederman	bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1130e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
11315673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
11325673a94cSEric W. Biederman	help
11335673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
11345673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
11355673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11365673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
11375673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11385091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11395091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11405091faa4SMike Galbraith	select EVENTFD
11415091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11425091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11435091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11445091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11455091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11465091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11475091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11485091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11495091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11505091faa4SMike Galbraith
11517af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11555d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11785d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1204f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1219c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1220c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1221dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1222dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1223c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1224c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1225c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
122696fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1227c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1228c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1229c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
1230c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12313a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1232c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12330847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12340847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12350847062aSRandy Dunlap
1236b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1237b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1238b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1239657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1240657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1241657a5209SMike Frysinger
1242657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1243657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1244657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1245657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1246657a5209SMike Frysinger
1247657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1248657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1249657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1250657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1251657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1252657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1253657a5209SMike Frysinger
1254657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1255657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1256657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1257657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1258657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1259657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1260657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1261657a5209SMike Frysinger
1262657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1263657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1264657a5209SMike Frysinger
12656a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1267f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1268f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1275ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1277af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	depends on HAVE_UID16
1278ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1279ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1280ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1281ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1282b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
128426a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1285c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1286b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1287b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
128813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
128913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
129013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
129113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1292b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
129313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
129413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
129513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1296b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1297c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1298ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
13006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
131171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
131271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
131371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
131471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
131571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
131771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
131871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
131971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
132071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
132271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1323d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1324d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1325d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
132774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1328d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1329d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1330d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1331d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1332d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1333d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1334d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1335c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1337c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1338c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1339c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1340c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1341c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1342c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1343c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1344c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1345708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1346046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1347708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13486a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1349708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1350708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1351708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13528761f1abSRalf Baechle
1353e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13558761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
135615f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1357e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1358e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1359e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1360e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1361e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
137323f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1382448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1387fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1389448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1390fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1391fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1392fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1393fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1394fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1395fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1396fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1397b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1399448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1400b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1401b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1402b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1403b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1404b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1405b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1406b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1407e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14086a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1409448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1410e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1411e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1412e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1413e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1414e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1415e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1416e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1428ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1430ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1431ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1432ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1433ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1434ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1435ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1436657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1437657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1438657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1439657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1440657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1441657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1442657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1443657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1444657a5209SMike Frysinger
14456befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
14466befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
14476befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
14486befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
14496befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
14506befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
14516befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
14526befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1453cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14540793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1455018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1456018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
14570793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1458906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1459906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1460906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1461906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1462906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
146357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
14640793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1465cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
146657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1467392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1468cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14694c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1470e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
14710793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
147257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
147357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
14740793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1475dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
147657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
147757c0c15bSIngo Molnar
147857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
147957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
14800793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
14810793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
14820793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
14840793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
14850793a61dSThomas Gleixner
148657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1487dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
148857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
14890793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
14900793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
14910793a61dSThomas Gleixner
14920793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
14930793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1494906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1495906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1496906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1497906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1498906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1499906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1500906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1501906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1502906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1503906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1504906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1505906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1506906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
15070793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
15080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1509f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1510f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
15116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1512f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
15132aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
15142aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
15156a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
15162aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1517f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
151841ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
151941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1521f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
152241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
152341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
152441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
152541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
152641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
152741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1528b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1529b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1530b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1531b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1532b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1533b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1534b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1535692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1536b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1537b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1538b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1539b943c460SRandy Dunlap
154081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
154181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1542a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
154381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
154481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
154581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
154681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
154781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
154881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
155034013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
155102f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
155281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
155481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
155581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
155681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
155781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
155881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
155981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
156002f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
156102f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
156281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
156381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
15646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
156581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
156681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
156737291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
156837291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
156937291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
157181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
157281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1573ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1574ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
15756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1576ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1577ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1578ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1579ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1580ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1581ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1582ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1583ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1584ea637639SJie Zhang
1585ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1586ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1587ea637639SJie Zhang
1588ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1589ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1590ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1591ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1592ea637639SJie Zhang
1593ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1594ea637639SJie Zhang
1595125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1596b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1597125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1598125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1599125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1600125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
16015f87f112SIngo Molnar#
16025f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
16035f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
16045f87f112SIngo Molnar#
160597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
16065f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
160797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1608fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1609fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
16101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1612ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1613ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1614ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1615ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1616158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1617158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1618158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
16190f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1620158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1621158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1622ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1623ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1624ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
16251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
163066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16500b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
16510b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1652826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1653826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1654826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1655826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
165691e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
165791e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
165891e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1659826e4506SLinus Torvalds
16601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1665f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1666f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
167019c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
16790d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1699106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1700106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1701106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
170248ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
170348ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
170448ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
170548ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
170648ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
170748ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
170848ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
170948ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1710106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1711106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1712106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1713106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1714106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1715ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1716ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1717ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1718ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1719ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1720106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1721106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1722106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1723106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1724106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1725106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1726ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1727d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1728d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1729d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1730d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1731d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1732d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1733d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1734d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1735d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1736d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1737d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1738ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1739ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1740ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1741ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1742ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1743ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1744ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1745ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1746ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1747ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1748ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1749ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1750ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1751ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1760ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1761ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1762ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1763ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1764ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1765ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1768ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
177022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
177122753674SMichal Marek	string
177222753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
177322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
177422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
177522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
177622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
177722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
177822753674SMichal Marek
17790b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
17800b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
178198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
178298a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
178398a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
17845f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
17855f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
178698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
178798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1788692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
178998a79d6aSRusty Russell
17901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
17963a65dfe8SJens Axboe
17973a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1798e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1799e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1800e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1801e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
180216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
180316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
180416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
180516295becSSteffen Klassert
1806754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1807754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1808754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
1809754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
1810754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
1811754b7b63SAndi Kleen
18124520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
18134520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
18144520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
18154520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
18164520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
18174520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
18184520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
18194520c6a4SDavid Howells
18206beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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