180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 265990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 267990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 268990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 276*69369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 277*69369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 278*69369a70SJosh Triplett default y 279*69369a70SJosh Triplett help 280*69369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 281*69369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 282*69369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 283*69369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 284*69369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 285*69369a70SJosh Triplett 2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 288804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 297a9302e84S蔡正龙 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PARISC || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT) || ALPHA) 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 30267640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 304939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 305939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 306939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 307939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30974c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 31074c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31163c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 31228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 31374c3cbe3SAl Viro 314d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 315764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 316d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 317391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 318391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 319abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 320abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 321abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 323fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 324fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 32502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 329fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 330c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 340c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 344391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 345391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 346391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 353ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 354554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 371c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 40819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 42119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 43219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 44119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 452c903ff83SMike Travis 453c903ff83SMike Travischoice 454c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 45531c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 456c903ff83SMike Travis 457c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 458c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 459687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 460016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 461c903ff83SMike Travis help 462c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 463c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 464c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 465c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 466c903ff83SMike Travis 467f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 468a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4699fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 47053614714SJames Hogan select IRQ_WORK 471f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 472f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 473f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 474f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 475bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 476bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4789fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4799fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4809b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4819b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4828008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4839b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4849b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4859b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4879b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 489c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 490c903ff83SMike Travis 491a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 492127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 493a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 494a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 495a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 496a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 4976bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 4986bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 4996bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5006bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5016bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5026bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5036bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5046bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 50591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 50691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 50791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5082b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5092b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 51091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 51191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5122b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5132b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5142b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5152b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5162b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 517af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5182b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 519d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 52091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 521af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 522d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 523d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 524d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 52591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 52691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 52791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 528d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5291fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 530d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 531d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 532d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 533d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 534d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 535d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 536d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 537d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 538d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 539d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 540d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 541d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 54599c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 551d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 552c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 553c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 554c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 555c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 556f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 557c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 558c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 559c903ff83SMike Travis help 560c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 561c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5624d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5634d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5644d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5654d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5664d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5674d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 568c903ff83SMike Travis 569c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 570c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 571c903ff83SMike Travis 5728932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5738932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5748932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5788932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5798932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5808932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5818932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5828932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5868932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5878932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 599c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 600c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 601f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 602c903ff83SMike Travis default n 603c903ff83SMike Travis help 604c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 605c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 606c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 607c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 608c903ff83SMike Travis 609c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 610c903ff83SMike Travis 611c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 612c903ff83SMike Travis 6138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6153451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6178bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 618c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6258bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 627c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 631c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 632f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 633c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 634c903ff83SMike Travis help 635f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 636f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 637f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 638c903ff83SMike Travis 63924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 64127f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 658c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 659c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 660c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 661c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 662c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 663c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 664c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 665c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6933fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6949a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6953fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6963fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6973fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 705a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 706a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 707a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 708a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 709a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7123fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 71334ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 716911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 717911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 718911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 719911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 720676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 721676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 722676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 724911af505SPaul E. McKenney 725911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 726911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 72773c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 728911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 729911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 730911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 731676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 732676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 738911af505SPaul E. McKenney 739911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 740911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 74173c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 749911af505SPaul E. McKenney 750911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney 754911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 757911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 758911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 765911af505SPaul E. McKenney 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 767911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney 769911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney 771c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 772c903ff83SMike Travis 7731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 774f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 792794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 793794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 794794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 795f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 796794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 797794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 798f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 799f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 800f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 801f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 802f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 803794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 804794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 805794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81238ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 81338ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81438ff87f7SStephen Boyd 815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 816be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 817be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 819be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 820be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 821be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 822be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 823be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 824be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 825be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 826be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 827be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 842be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 843be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 844be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8451a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8461a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8471a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 8481a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8491a687c2eSMel Gorman help 8506d56a410SPaul Gortmaker If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8511a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 8521a687c2eSMel Gorman 853be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8616d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 86523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 86623964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 867ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 86823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 87345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 87445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 875ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 876ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 877ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 87823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 87923964d2dSLi Zefan 880006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 881006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 882418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 883006cb992SPaul Menage help 884006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 885006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 88623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 887006cb992SPaul Menage 88823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 889006cb992SPaul Menage 890dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 89123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 892dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 893dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 894dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 895dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 89608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 89708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 89808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 89908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 90008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 90108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 9021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 905d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 91323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 91423964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 91523964d2dSLi Zefan default y 91623964d2dSLi Zefan 917d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 918d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 919d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 920d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 92123964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 922d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 923e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 924e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 925e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 926e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 92723964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 928e552b661SPavel Emelianov 929c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 93000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 93179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 932cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 93379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 93400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 93584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 93621acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 93700f0b825SBalbir Singh 93800f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 93984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 940f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 94184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 94284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 94300f0b825SBalbir Singh 94400f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 94584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 94684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 94784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 948c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 94900f0b825SBalbir Singh 950cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 951cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 952cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 953c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 95465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 955c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 956c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 957c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 958c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 959c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 960c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 961c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 962c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 963c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 964c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 965c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 966c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 96700a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 968627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 969627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 970c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 971a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 972c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 973a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 974a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 975a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 976a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 97743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 97807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 979a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 980a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 981a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 98200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 983c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 98419c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 98519c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 986510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 987e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 988e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 989e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 990e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 991e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 992e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 993e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 994c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9952bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9962bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 99719c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 9982bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 10002bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 10012bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10032bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10042bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10052bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10062bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10072bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10082bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10092bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1010e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1011e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1012e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1013e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1014e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10152d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1016e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1017e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1018e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1019e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10207c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10217c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10227c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10237c941438SDhaval Giani help 10247c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10257c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10267c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10277c941438SDhaval Giani 10287c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10297c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10307c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10317c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10327c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10337c941438SDhaval Giani 1034ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1035ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1036ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1037ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1038ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1039ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1043ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1044ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10457c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10467c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10477c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10487c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10497c941438SDhaval Giani help 10507c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 105132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10527c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10537c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10547c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10557c941438SDhaval Giani 10567c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10577c941438SDhaval Giani 1058afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 105932e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 106079ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1062afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1063afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1064afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1065afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1066afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1067afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1068afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1069e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1070e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1071afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1073e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 107479e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 107579e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1076c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1077afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1078afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1079afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1080afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1081afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1082afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1084afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1085afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1086afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1087afc24d49SVivek Goyal 108823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1089c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1090067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1091067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1092067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1093067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1094067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1095067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1096067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1097067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1098067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1099067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1100067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11036a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1104c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1105c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1106c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1107c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1108c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1109c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 111258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 111358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 111417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 111558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 111658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 111758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 111858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1119ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1120ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 112217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1123ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1124ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1125614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1126ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1127aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 112819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11295673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1130aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1131aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1132aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1133e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1134e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1135e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1136e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1137e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1138e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1139e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1140aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1141aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 114274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11439bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 114417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 114574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 114612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1147692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 114874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 114974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1150d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1151d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11528dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 115317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1154d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1155d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1156d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1157d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11605091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11615091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11625091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11635091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11645091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11655091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11665091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11675091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11685091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11695091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11705091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11715091faa4SMike Galbraith 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11765d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11995d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1224f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1227f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1228f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1231f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1232f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1233f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1234f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1235f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1236f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1240c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1241c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1242dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1243dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1244c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1245c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1246c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 124796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1248c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1249c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1250c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1251c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12523a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1253c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12540847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12550847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12560847062aSRandy Dunlap 1257b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1258b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1259b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1260657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1261657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1262657a5209SMike Frysinger 1263657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1264657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1265657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1266657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1267657a5209SMike Frysinger 1268657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1269657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1270657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1271657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1272657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1273657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger 1275657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1276657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1280657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1281657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger 1283657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger 12866a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1288f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1289f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1296ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1298af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1299ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1300ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1301ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1302ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13036af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13046af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13066af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13076af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13096af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13116af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1313b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 131526a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1316c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1317b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1318b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 131913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 132013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 132113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 132213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1323b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 132413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 132513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 132613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1327b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1328c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1329ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 134271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 134371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 134471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 134571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 134671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 134971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 135071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 135171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 135371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1354d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1355d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1356d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 135874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1359d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1360d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1361d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1362d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1363d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1364d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1365d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1366c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1368c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1369c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1370c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1371c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1372c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1373c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1374c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1375c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1376708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1377046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1378708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1380708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1381708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1382708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13838761f1abSRalf Baechle 1384e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13868761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 138715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1388e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1389e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1390e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1391e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1392e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 140423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 141103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 141203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 141303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 141403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 141503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 141603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1420448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1425fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1427448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1428fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1429fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1430fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1431fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1432fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1433fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1434fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1435b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1437448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1438b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1439b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1440b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1441b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1442b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1443b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1444b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1445e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1447448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1448e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1449e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1450e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1451e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1452e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1453e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1454e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1466ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1468ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1469ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1470ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1471ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1472ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1473ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1474657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1475657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1476657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1477657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1478657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1479657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1480657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1481657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1482657a5209SMike Frysinger 14836befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1491cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14920793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1493018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1494018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1496906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1497906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1498906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1499906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1500906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 150157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15020793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1503cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 150457c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1505392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1506cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15074c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1508e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 15090793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 151057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 151157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15120793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1513dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 151457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 151557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 151657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 151757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15180793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15190793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15200793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15210793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15220793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 152457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1525dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 152657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15270793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15280793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15290793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15300793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1532906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1533906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1534906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1535906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1536906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1537906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1538906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1539906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1540906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1541906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1542906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1543906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1544906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15450793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15460793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1547f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1548f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1550f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15512aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15522aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15536a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15542aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1555f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 155641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 155741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1559f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 156041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 156141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 156241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 156341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 156441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 156541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1566b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1567b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1568b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1569b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1570b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1571b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1572b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1573692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1574b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1575b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1576b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1577b943c460SRandy Dunlap 157881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 157981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1580a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 158181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 158381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 158481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 158581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 158681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 158834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 158902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 159081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 159281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 159381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 159581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 159681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 159781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 159802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 159902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 160081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16026a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 160381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 160481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 160537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 160637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 160737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 160881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 161081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1611345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1612345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1613b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1614345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1615345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1616345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1617345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1618345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1619345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1620345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1621345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1622ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1623ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16246a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1625ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1626ea637639SJie Zhang help 1627ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1628ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1629ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1630ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1631ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1632ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1633ea637639SJie Zhang 1634ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1635ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1636ea637639SJie Zhang 1637ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1638ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1639ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1640ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1641ea637639SJie Zhang 1642ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1643ea637639SJie Zhang 1644125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1645b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1646125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1647125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1648125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1649125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16505f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16515f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16525f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16535f87f112SIngo Molnar# 165497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16555f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 165697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1657fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1658fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1662ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1663ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1664ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1665158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1666158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1667158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16680f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1669158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1670158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1671ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1672ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1673ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1679b56e5a17SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1680b56e5a17SDavid Howells bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 1681b56e5a17SDavid Howells depends on KEYS 1682b56e5a17SDavid Howells help 1683b56e5a17SDavid Howells Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 1684b56e5a17SDavid Howells the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 1685b56e5a17SDavid Howells by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 1686b56e5a17SDavid Howells userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 1687b56e5a17SDavid Howells keys already in the keyring. 1688b56e5a17SDavid Howells 1689b56e5a17SDavid Howells Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 1690b56e5a17SDavid Howells 169166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 169311097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17120b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17130b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1714826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1715826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1716826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1717826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 171891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 171991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 172091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1721826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1727f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1728f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 173219c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17410d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1764b56e5a17SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 176548ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 176648ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 176748ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 176848ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 176948ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 177048ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 177148ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 177248ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1773106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1774106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1775106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1776106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1777106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1778ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1779ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1781ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1782ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1783106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1784106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1785106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1786106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1787106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1788106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1789ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1790d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1791d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1792d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1793d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1794d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1795d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1796d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1797d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1798d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1799d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1800d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1808ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1809ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1810ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1811ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1812ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1813ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1814ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1815ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1816ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1817ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1818ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1819ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1820ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1821ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1822ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1823ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1824ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1825ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1826ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1827ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1828ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1829ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1830ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1831ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1832ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 183322753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 183422753674SMichal Marek string 183522753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 183622753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 183722753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 183822753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 183922753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 184022753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 184122753674SMichal Marek 18420b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18430b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 184498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 184598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 184698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18475f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18485f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 184998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 185098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1851692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 185298a79d6aSRusty Russell 18531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 18593a65dfe8SJens Axboe 18603a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1861e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1862e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1863e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1864e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 186516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 186616295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 186716295becSSteffen Klassert bool 186816295becSSteffen Klassert 1869754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1870754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1871754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1872754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1873754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1874754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18754520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18764520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18774520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18784520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18794520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18804520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18814520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18824520c6a4SDavid Howells 18836beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1884