180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 28869369a70SJosh Triplett default y 28969369a70SJosh Triplett help 29069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29569369a70SJosh Triplett 2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 298804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 31567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 318939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 319939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32674c3cbe3SAl Viro 327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 42219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4242813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 438f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 467c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 468c903ff83SMike Travis 469c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 470e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 471e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 472c903ff83SMike Travis help 473c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 474c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 475c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 476c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 477c903ff83SMike Travis 47828f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 479e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 480e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if PREEMPT 481f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 485bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 486bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4889fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4899fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 491e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 492e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT 50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney default n 50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney help 50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney obscure RCU options to be set up. 50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51483fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 51783fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 51883fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 51983fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar 5218315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 52282d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5268315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5278315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5288315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5298315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 53128f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5346bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5356bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5366bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5376bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 54091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 54191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 54291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 54391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5451fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 56199c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 567d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 568c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 569c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 570c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 571c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 57205c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 573c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 574c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 575c903ff83SMike Travis help 576c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 577c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5804d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5814d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5824d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5834d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 584c903ff83SMike Travis 585c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 586c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 587c903ff83SMike Travis 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5908739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 5918739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 59247d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 61778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 633c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 63428f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 635c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 636c903ff83SMike Travis help 637f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 63828f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 639f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 640c903ff83SMike Travis 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 64378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65421871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 65521871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 656a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 657a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 658a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 659a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 66026730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 66221871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 66321871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 66421871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 66521871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 66621871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 66721871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 66821871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 66921871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 67521871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 68021871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6999a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 70028f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 701be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 714a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 715a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 716a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 717a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 71934ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7213fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 722911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 723911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 724911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7254568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 726911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 727676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 728676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney 732911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 733911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 734911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 735911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 736911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 741676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 742676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 744911af505SPaul E. McKenney 745911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 746911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 747911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 758911af505SPaul E. McKenney 759911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 760911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 761911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 762911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 769911af505SPaul E. McKenney 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 771911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 772911af505SPaul E. McKenney 773911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 774911af505SPaul E. McKenney 775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT 776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney bool 777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney default n 778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney help 779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time, 780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot. 781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from 782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked 783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before 784ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney init is exec'ed. 785ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 786ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 787ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 788c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 789c903ff83SMike Travis 790de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 791de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 792de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 793de5b56baSVivek Goyal 7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 795f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 796de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 814794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 815794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 816fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 817f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 818361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 819794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 82123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 82223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 82423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 826f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 827f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 828f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 829f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 830794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 831794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 832794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 83423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 839361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 87538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 87638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 87738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 885be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 88672b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 88772b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 88872b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 88972b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89072b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89172b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89272b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 89372b252aeSMel Gorman bool 89472b252aeSMel Gorman 89572b252aeSMel Gorman# 896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 897be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 898be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 899be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 900be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9156d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9286341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9292bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 930ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 93123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 93645ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 93745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 938ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 939ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 940ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 94123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 94223964d2dSLi Zefan 9433e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9443e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9453e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 946c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 947a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9483e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 94979bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 95000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 951a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 95200f0b825SBalbir Singh 953c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 954a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 955c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 956c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 957a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 958a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 959c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 960a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 961c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 962a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 963a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 964a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 965a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 96643d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 96707555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 968a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 969a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 970a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 97100a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 972c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 97319c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 97419c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 975510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 976e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 977e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 978e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 979e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 980e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 981e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 982e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 983c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 984*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 985*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 986*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9872bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 988*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 989*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 990*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 991*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9922bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 993*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 994*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 995*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 996*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 997e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 998*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 999*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1000*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1001*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1002*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1003*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1004*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1005*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1006*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1007*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 1008*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 1009*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 1010*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 1011*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1012*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1013*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1014*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1015*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 1016*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1017*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1018e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10197c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1020a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10217c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10227c941438SDhaval Giani help 10237c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10247c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10257c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10267c941438SDhaval Giani 10277c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10287c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10297c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10307c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10317c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10327c941438SDhaval Giani 1033ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1034ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1035ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1036ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1037ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1038ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1039ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1043ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10447c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10457c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10467c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10477c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10487c941438SDhaval Giani help 10497c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 105032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10517c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10527c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10537c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10547c941438SDhaval Giani 10557c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10567c941438SDhaval Giani 1057*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 1058*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 1059*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1060*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1061*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1062*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1063*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1064*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1065*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1066*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening. 1067*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1068*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1069*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem), 1070*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1071*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 1072*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1073*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 1074*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 1075*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1076*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1077*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 1078*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1079*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 1080*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 1081*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1082*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1084*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1085*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1086*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1087*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1088*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1089*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1090*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1091*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1092*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1093*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1094afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1095*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 1096*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1097*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1098*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1099*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1100*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1101*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1102afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1103*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1104afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1105*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 1106*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1107*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 110889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 110989e9b9e0STejun Heo 1110*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 1111*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 1112*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1113*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1114*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1115*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1116*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 1117*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1118*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1119*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1120*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1121*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1122*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 1123*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 1124*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 1125*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1126*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1127*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1128*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 1129*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1130*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1131*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1132*6bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 1133*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 1134*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 1135*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 1136*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 1137*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 1138*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1139*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 1140*6bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1142c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1143067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1144067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 11452e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1146067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1147067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1148067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1149067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1150067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1151067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1152067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1153067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1154067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11572813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11586a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1159c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1160c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1161c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1162c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1163c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1164c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 116758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 116858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 116917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 117058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 117158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 117258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 117358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1174ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1175ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11768dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 117717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1178ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1179ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1180614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1181ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1182aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 118319c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11845673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1185aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1186aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1187aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1188e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1189e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1190e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1191e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1192e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1193e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1194e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1195aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1196aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 119774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11989bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 119917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 120074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 120112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1202692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 120374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 120474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1205d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1206d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 120817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1210d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1211d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1212d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12155091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12165091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12175091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12185091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12195091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12205091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12215091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12225091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12235091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12245091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12255091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12265091faa4SMike Galbraith 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12285d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12515d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1292c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1293c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1294dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1295dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1296c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1297c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1298c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 129996fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1300c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 130131a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 130231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1303c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13043a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1305c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13060847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13070847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13080847062aSRandy Dunlap 1309b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1310b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1311b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1312657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger 1315657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger 1320657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1321657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1323657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1325657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1326657a5209SMike Frysinger 1327657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1328657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1329657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1330657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1331657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1332657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1333657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1334657a5209SMike Frysinger 1335657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1336657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1337657a5209SMike Frysinger 1338f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1339f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1340f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1341f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13426a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1344f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1345f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1352ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13542813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1355ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1356ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1357ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1358ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13592813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13602813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13612813893fSIulia Manda default y 13622813893fSIulia Manda help 13632813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13642813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13652813893fSIulia Manda 13662813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13672813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13682813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13692813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13702813893fSIulia Manda 13712813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13722813893fSIulia Manda 1373f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1374f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1375f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1376f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1377f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1378f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1379f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1380f6187769SFabian Frederick 1381f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1382f6187769SFabian Frederick 13836af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13866af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13876af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13906af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13916af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1393b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 139526a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1396c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1397b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1398b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 139913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 140013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 140113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 140213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1403b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 140413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 140513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 140613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1407b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1408c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1409ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 14116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 142271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 142371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 142471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 142571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 142671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 142871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 142971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 143071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 143171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 143371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1434d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1435d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1436d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 143874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1439d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1440d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1441d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1442d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1443d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1444d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1445d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1446c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1448c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1449c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1450c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1451c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1452c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1453c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1454c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1455c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1456708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1457046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1458708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1460708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1461708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1462708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14638761f1abSRalf Baechle 1464e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14668761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 146715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1468e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1469e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1470e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1471e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1472e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 148423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 149003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 149103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 149262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 149303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 149503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 149603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 149703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1501448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1506fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1508448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1509fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1510fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1511fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1512fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1513fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1514fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1515fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1516b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1518448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1519b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1520b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1521b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1522b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1523b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1524b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1525b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1526e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1528448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1529e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1530e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1531e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1532e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1533e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1534e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1535e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1536f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1537f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1538e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1539f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1540f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1541f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1542f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1543f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1544f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1545f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 15461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1557ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1559ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1560ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1561ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1562ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1563ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1564ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1565d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1566d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1567d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1568d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1569d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1570d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1571d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1572d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1573d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1574d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1575a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1576a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1577a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1578a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1579a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1580a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1581a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1582a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1583657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1584657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1585657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1586657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1587657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1588657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1589657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1590657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1591657a5209SMike Frysinger 15925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16046befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16065d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1613cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16140793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1615018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1616018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1621906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1622906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 162357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1625cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 162657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1627392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1628cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16294c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1630e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 163183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16320793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 163357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 163457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1636dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 163757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 163857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 163957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 164057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16410793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16420793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16430793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16440793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16450793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16460793a61dSThomas Gleixner 164757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1648dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 164957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16500793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16510793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16530793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1655906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1656906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1657906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1658cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1659906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1660906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1661906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1662906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1663906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1664906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1665906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1666906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1667906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16680793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1670f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1671f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1673f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16752aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16772aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1678f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 167941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 168041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1682f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 168341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 168441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 168541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 168641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 168741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 168841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1689b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1690b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1691b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1692b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1693b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1694b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1695b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1696692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1697b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1698b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1699b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1700b943c460SRandy Dunlap 170181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 170281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1703a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 170481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 170681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 170781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 170881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 170981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 171134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 171202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 171381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 171681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 172102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 172202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 172381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 172481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17256a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 172781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 172837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 172937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 173037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 173181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 173281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 173381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1734345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1735345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1736b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1737345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1738345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1739345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1740345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1741345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1742345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1743345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1744345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1745ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1746ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17476a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1748ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1749ea637639SJie Zhang help 1750ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1751ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1752ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1753ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1754ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1755ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1756ea637639SJie Zhang 1757ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1758ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1759ea637639SJie Zhang 1760ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1761ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1762ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1763ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1764ea637639SJie Zhang 1765ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1766ea637639SJie Zhang 1767091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1768091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1769091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1770091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1771091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1772091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1773091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1774091f6e26SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1775091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1776091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1777091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1778091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 177982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1780091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1781091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1782091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1783091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 178482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1785125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1786b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1787125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1788125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1789125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1790125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17915f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17925f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17935f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17945f87f112SIngo Molnar# 179597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17965f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 179797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1798fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1799fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 18001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1802ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1803ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1804ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1805ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1806158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1807158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1808158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 18090f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1810158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1811158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1812ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18136341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1814ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 182066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 182211097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18410b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18420b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1843826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1844826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1845826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1846826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 184791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 184891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 184991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1850826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1856f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1857f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 186119c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18700d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1890106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1891106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1892106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1894106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1895106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1896106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1897106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1898106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1899228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1900228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1901228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1902228c37ffSDavid Howells 1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1906ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1908106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1909106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1910106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1911106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1912106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1913106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1915d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1916d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1917d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1918d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1919d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1920d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1921d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1922d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1923d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1924d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1925d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1956ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1957ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 195822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 195922753674SMichal Marek string 196022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 196122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 196222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 196322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 196422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 196522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 196622753674SMichal Marek 1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1968beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1970beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1972b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1973b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1975b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1976beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1977b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1978b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1980b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1981b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1983b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1984b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1985b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1988beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1990beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1991beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1993beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1994beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1998beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1999beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2000beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2001beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2002beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2003beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2004beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 20050b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20060b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20076c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20086c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20096c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20106c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 201198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 201298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 201398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20145f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20155f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 201698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 201798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2018692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 201998a79d6aSRusty Russell 20201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 20263a65dfe8SJens Axboe 20273a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2028e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2029e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2030e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2031e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 203216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 203316295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 203416295becSSteffen Klassert bool 203516295becSSteffen Klassert 2036754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2037754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2038754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 2039754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 2040754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 2041754b7b63SAndi Kleen 20424520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20434520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20444520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20454520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20464520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20474520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20484520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20494520c6a4SDavid Howells 20506beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2051