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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
561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
66aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
67aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
68aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
69aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
70aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
73aaebf433SRyan Anderson
74aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
76aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
776e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
78aaebf433SRyan Anderson
796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
826e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson
862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
953ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
963ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
973ebe1243SLasse Collin
987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
10130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
10230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
10330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1043ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
10530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
10630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
10730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
10830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
10930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
11030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
11130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
11230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
11330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1440a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1450a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1460a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1483ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1493ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1503ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1513ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1523ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1533ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1543ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1553ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1563ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1573ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1583ebe1243SLasse Collin
1593ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1603ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1613ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1623ebe1243SLasse Collin
1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1670a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
168681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
173bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
174bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
175bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
176bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
177bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
178bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
179bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
180bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
181bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
1821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1849361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
207a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
208a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
209a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
210a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
211a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
212a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
21519c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
221b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
229bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
230bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
231bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
232bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
233bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
235990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
236990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
237990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
238990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
239990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
240990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
241990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
242990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
243990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
244990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
245990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
246990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
249804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2588f827a14SWill Deacon	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
26367640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
265939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
266939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
267939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
268939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
27074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
27174c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
27263c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
27328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
27474c3cbe3SAl Viro
275633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
276633b4545SEric Paris	bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
277633b4545SEric Paris	depends on AUDIT
278633b4545SEric Paris	help
279f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds	  The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
280633b4545SEric Paris	  CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
281633b4545SEric Paris	  but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
282633b4545SEric Paris	  previously set.  On systems which use systemd or a similar central
283633b4545SEric Paris	  process to restart login services this should be set to true.  On older
284633b4545SEric Paris	  systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
285633b4545SEric Paris	  start processes this should be set to false.  Setting this to true allows
286633b4545SEric Paris	  one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
287633b4545SEric Paris	  but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
288633b4545SEric Paris
289d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
290764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
291d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
292391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
293391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
294abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
295abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
296abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
297fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
298fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
299fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
30002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
301fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
302fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
303fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
304fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
305c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
306fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
307fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
308fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
309fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
310fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
313abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
314391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
315c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
316abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
317391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
318391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
319391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
320391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
323391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
324391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
325391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
326abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
328abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
335abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
336abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
337abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
339abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
345c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
351fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
38219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
39519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
40619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
41519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
425c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
426c903ff83SMike Travis
427c903ff83SMike Travischoice
428c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
42931c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
430c903ff83SMike Travis
431c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
432c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
433687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
434016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt	select IRQ_WORK
435c903ff83SMike Travis	help
436c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
437c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
438c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
439c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
440c903ff83SMike Travis
441f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
442a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
4439fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
444f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
445f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
446f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
447f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
448bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
449bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4519fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4529fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4539b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4549b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4558008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
4569b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4579b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4589b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4599b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
462a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
463a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4648008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
465a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
466a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
467a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
468a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
469a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
470c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
471c903ff83SMike Travis
472a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
473a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
474a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
475a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
476a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
477a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
4786bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
4796bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
4806bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
4816bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
4826bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
4836bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
4846bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
4856bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
48691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
48791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
48891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
4892b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS
4902b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
49191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
49291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
4932b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	help
4942b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
4952b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
4962b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
4972b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
498af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
4992b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker
500d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
50191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
502af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  adds unnecessary overhead.
503d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
504d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure say N
505d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
50691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
50791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
50891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
5098b438766SFrederic Weisbecker	default CONTEXT_TRACKING
5101fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
51191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
51291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  quiescent states.
51491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
51591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  full dynticks mode.
516d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
517c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
518c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
519c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
520c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
521f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
522c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
523c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
524c903ff83SMike Travis	help
525c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
526c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5274d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5284d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5294d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5304d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5314d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5324d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
533c903ff83SMike Travis
534c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
535c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
536c903ff83SMike Travis
5378932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5388932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5398932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
5408932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
5418932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
5428932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5438932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5448932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5458932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5468932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5478932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5488932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5498932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
5508932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
5518932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
5528932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
5538932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
5548932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
5558932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
5568932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
5578932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
564c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
565c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
566f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
567c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
568c903ff83SMike Travis	help
569c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
570c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
571c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
572c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
573c903ff83SMike Travis
574c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
575c903ff83SMike Travis
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
577c903ff83SMike Travis
5788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
5798bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
5803451d024SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
5818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
5828bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
583c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
584c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
585c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
586c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
587c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
588c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
589c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
5908bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
591c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
592c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
5938bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
5948bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
5958bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
596c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
597f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
598c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
599c903ff83SMike Travis	help
600f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
601f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
602f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
603c903ff83SMike Travis
60424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
60524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
60627f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
60724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
60824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
60924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
61024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
61124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
61224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
61324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
61424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
61524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
61624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
61724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
61824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
62024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
62224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
623c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
624c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  preempted RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working
625c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
626c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
627c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
628c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time CPU-bound thread.  The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
629c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
630c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
631c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
632c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
633c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
634c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
635c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
636c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
637c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
638c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
639c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
640c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
641c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6583fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6599a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
6603fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
6613fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6623fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
6633fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
6643fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
6653fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
6663fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
6673fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
6683fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
6693fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
670a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
671a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
672a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
673a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
674a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
675a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
676a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
6773fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
67834ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
6793fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
6803fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
681911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
682911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
683911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
684911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
685*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
686*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
687*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
688*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
689911af505SPaul E. McKenney
690911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
691911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
69273c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
693911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
694911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
695911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
696*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
697*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
698*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
699*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
700*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
701*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
702*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
703911af505SPaul E. McKenney
704911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
705911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
70673c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
707911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
708*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
709*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
710*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
711*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
712*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
713*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
714911af505SPaul E. McKenney
715911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
716*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
717*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
718911af505SPaul E. McKenney
719911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
720911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
721911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
722911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
723911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
724*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
725*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
726*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
727*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
728*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
729*676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
730911af505SPaul E. McKenney
731911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
732911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
733911af505SPaul E. McKenney
734911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
735911af505SPaul E. McKenney
736c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
737c903ff83SMike Travis
7381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
739f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
757794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
758794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
759794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
760f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
761794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
762794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
765f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
767f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
769794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
770794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
7715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	default y
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8011a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8021a687c2eSMel Gorman	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8031a687c2eSMel Gorman	default y
8041a687c2eSMel Gorman	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8051a687c2eSMel Gorman	help
8061a687c2eSMel Gorman	  If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8071a687c2eSMel Gorman	  machine.
8081a687c2eSMel Gorman
809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
812be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
813be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
814be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
816be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
817be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  it is references to the node the task is running on.
818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
819be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
820be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
82123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
82223964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
8230dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
824ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
82523964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
8295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
83045ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
83145ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
832ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
833ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
834ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
83523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
83623964d2dSLi Zefan
837006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
838006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
839418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
840006cb992SPaul Menage	help
841006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
842006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
84323964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
844006cb992SPaul Menage
84523964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
846006cb992SPaul Menage
847dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
84823964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
849dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
850dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
851dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
852dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
85308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
85408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
85508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
85608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
85708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
85808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
8591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
862d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
86923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
87023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
87123964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
87223964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
87323964d2dSLi Zefan
874d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
875d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
876d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
877d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
87823964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
879d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
880e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
881e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
882e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
883e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
88423964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
885e552b661SPavel Emelianov
886c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
88700f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
88879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
889cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
89000f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
89184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
89221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
89300f0b825SBalbir Singh
89400f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
89584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
89684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
89784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
89884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
89900f0b825SBalbir Singh
90000f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
90184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
90284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
90384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
904c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
90500f0b825SBalbir Singh
906cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
907cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
908cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
909c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
91065e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
911c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
912c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
913c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
914c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
915c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
916c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
917c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
918c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
919c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
920c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
921c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
922c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
92300a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
924627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
925627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
926c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
927a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
928c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
929a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
930a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
931a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
932a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
93343d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
934a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
935a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
936a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
937a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
93800a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
939c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
94019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
94119c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
942510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
943e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
944e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
945e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
946e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
947e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
948e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
949e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
950c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
95319c92399SKees Cook	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
9542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
9572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
9652bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
966e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
967e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
968e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
969e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
970e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
9712d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
972e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
973e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
974e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
975e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9767c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
9777c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
9787c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9797c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9807c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9817c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9827c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9837c941438SDhaval Giani
9847c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9857c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9877c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9887c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9897c941438SDhaval Giani
990ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
991ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
992ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
993ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
994ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
995ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
996ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
997ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
998ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
999ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1000ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10017c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10027c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10037c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10047c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10057c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10067c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
100732bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10087c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10097c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10107c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10117c941438SDhaval Giani
10127c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10137c941438SDhaval Giani
1014afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
101532e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
101679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1017afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1018afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1019afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1020afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1021afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1022afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1023afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1024afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1025e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1026e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1027afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1028afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1029e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
103079e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
103179e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1032c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1033afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1034afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1035afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1036afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1037afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1038afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1039afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1040afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1041afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1042afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1043afc24d49SVivek Goyal
104423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1045c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1046067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1047067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1048067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1049067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1050067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1051067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1052067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1053067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1054067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1055067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1056067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
10578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10586a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10596a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1064c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1065c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
106858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
107017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
107258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
107358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
107458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1075ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1076ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
107817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1079ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1080ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1081614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1082ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1083aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
108419c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
1085e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
10865673a94cSEric W. Biederman	select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1087e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
10885673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1089aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1090aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1091aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1092e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1093e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1094e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1095e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1096e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1097e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1098e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1099aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1100aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
110174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11029bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
110317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
110474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
110512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1106692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
110774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
110874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1109d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1110d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
111217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1113d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1114d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1115d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1116d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
1119e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED
1120e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1121e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1122e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1123e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# the user namespace.
1124e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	bool
1125e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	default y
1126e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
1127e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# Filesystems
1128e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on XFS_FS = n
1129e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
11305673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
11315673a94cSEric W. Biederman	bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1132e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
11335673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
11345673a94cSEric W. Biederman	help
11355673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
11365673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
11375673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11385673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
11395673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11405091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11415091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11425091faa4SMike Galbraith	select EVENTFD
11435091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11445091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11455091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11465091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11475091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11485091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11495091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11505091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11515091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11525091faa4SMike Galbraith
11537af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11567af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11575d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11805d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1221c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1222c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1223dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1224dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1225c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1226c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1227c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
122896fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1229c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1230c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1231c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
1232c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12333a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1234c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12350847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12360847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12370847062aSRandy Dunlap
1238b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1239b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1240b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1241657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1242657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1243657a5209SMike Frysinger
1244657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1245657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1246657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1247657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1248657a5209SMike Frysinger
1249657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1250657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1251657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1252657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1253657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1254657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1255657a5209SMike Frysinger
1256657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1257657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1258657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1259657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1260657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1261657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1262657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1263657a5209SMike Frysinger
1264657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HOTPLUG
1265657a5209SMike Frysinger	def_bool y
1266657a5209SMike Frysinger
1267657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1268657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1269657a5209SMike Frysinger
12706a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1272f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1273f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1280ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12816a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1282af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	depends on HAVE_UID16
1283ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1284ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1285ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1286ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1287b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
128926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1290c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1291b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1292b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
129313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
129413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
129513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
129613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1297b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
129813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
129913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
130013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1301b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1302c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1303ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
13056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
131671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
131771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
131871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
131971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
132071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
132271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
132371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
132471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
132571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
132771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1328d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1329d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1330d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13316a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
133274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1333d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1334d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1335d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1336d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1337d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1338d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1339d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1340c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1342c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1343c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1344c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1345c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1346c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1347c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1348c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1349c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1350708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1351046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1352708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13536a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1354708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1355708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1356708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13578761f1abSRalf Baechle
1358e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13596a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13608761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
136115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1362e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1363e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1364e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1365e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1366e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
137823f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1387448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1392fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13936a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1394448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1395fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1396fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1397fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1398fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1399fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1400fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1401fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1402b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14036a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1404448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1405b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1406b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1407b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1408b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1409b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1410b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1411b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1412e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14136a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1414448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1415e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1416e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1417e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1418e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1419e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1420e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1421e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14236a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1433ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1435ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1436ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1437ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1438ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1439ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1440ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1441657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1442657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1443657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1444657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1445657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1446657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1447657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1448657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1449657a5209SMike Frysinger
14506befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
14516befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
14526befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
14536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
14546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
14556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
14566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
14576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1458cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1460018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1461018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
14620793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1463906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1464906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1465906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1466906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1467906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
146857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
14690793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1470cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
147157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1472392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1473cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14744c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1475e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
14760793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
147757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
147857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
14790793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1480dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
148157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
148257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
148357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
148457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
14850793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
14860793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
14870793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
14880793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
14890793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
14900793a61dSThomas Gleixner
149157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1492dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
149357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
14940793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
14950793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
14960793a61dSThomas Gleixner
14970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
14980793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1499906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1500906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1501906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1502906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1503906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1504906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1505906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1506906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1507906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1508906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1509906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1510906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1511906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
15120793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
15130793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1514f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1515f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
15166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1517f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
15182aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
15192aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
15212aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1522f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
152341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
152441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
15256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1526f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
152741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
152841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
152941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
153041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
153141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
153241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1533b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1534b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1535b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1536b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1537b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1538b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1539b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1540692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1541b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1542b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1543b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1544b943c460SRandy Dunlap
154581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
154681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1547a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
154881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
155081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
155281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
155481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
155534013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
155602f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
155781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
155981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
156081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
156181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
156281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
156381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
156481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
156502f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
156602f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
156781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
156881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
157181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
157237291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
157337291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
157437291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
157581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
157681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
157781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1578ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1579ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1581ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1582ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1583ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1584ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1585ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1586ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1587ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1588ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1589ea637639SJie Zhang
1590ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1591ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1592ea637639SJie Zhang
1593ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1594ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1595ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1596ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1597ea637639SJie Zhang
1598ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1599ea637639SJie Zhang
1600125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1601b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1602125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1603125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1604125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1605125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
16065f87f112SIngo Molnar#
16075f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
16085f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
16095f87f112SIngo Molnar#
161097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
16115f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
161297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1613fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1614fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
16151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1617ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1618ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1619ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1620ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1621158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1622158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1623158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
16240f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1625158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1626158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1627ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1628ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1629ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
16301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
163566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16550b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
16560b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1657826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1658826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1659826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1660826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
166191e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
166291e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
166391e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1664826e4506SLinus Torvalds
16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1670f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1671f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
167519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
16840d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1704106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1705106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1706106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
170748ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
170848ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
170948ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
171048ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
171148ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
171248ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
171348ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
171448ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1715106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1716106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1717106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1718106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1719106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1720ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1721ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1722ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1723ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1724ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1725106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1726106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1727106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1728106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1729106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1730106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1731ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1732d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1733d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1734d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1735d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1736d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1737d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1738d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1739d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1740d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1741d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1742d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1743ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1744ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1745ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1746ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1747ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1748ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1749ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1750ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1751ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1760ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1761ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1762ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1763ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1764ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1765ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1768ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1770ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1771ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1772ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1773ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1774ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
177522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
177622753674SMichal Marek	string
177722753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
177822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
177922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
178022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
178122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
178222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
178322753674SMichal Marek
17840b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
17850b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
178698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
178798a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
178898a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
17895f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
17905f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
179198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
179298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1793692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
179498a79d6aSRusty Russell
17951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
18013a65dfe8SJens Axboe
18023a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1803e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1804e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1805e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1806e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
180716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
180816295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
180916295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
181016295becSSteffen Klassert
1811754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1812754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1813754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
1814754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
1815754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
1816754b7b63SAndi Kleen
18174520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
18184520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
18194520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
18204520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
18214520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
18224520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
18234520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
18244520c6a4SDavid Howells
18256beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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