180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 66aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 67aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 68aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 69aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 70aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 73aaebf433SRyan Anderson 74aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 76aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 776e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 78aaebf433SRyan Anderson 796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 826e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson 862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 953ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 963ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 973ebe1243SLasse Collin 987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 10130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 10230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 10330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1043ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 10530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 10630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 10730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 10830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 10930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 11030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 11130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 11230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1440a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1450a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1460a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1483ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1493ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1503ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1513ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1523ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1533ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1543ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1553ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1563ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1573ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1583ebe1243SLasse Collin 1593ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1603ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1613ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1623ebe1243SLasse Collin 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1670a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 168681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 173bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 174bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 175bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 176bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 177bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 178bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 179bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 180bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 181bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 1821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1849361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 207a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 208a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 209a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 210a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 211a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 212a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 21519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 221b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 229bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 230bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 231bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 232bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 233bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 235990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 236990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 237990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 238990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 239990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 240990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 241990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 242990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 243990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 244990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 245990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 246990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 249804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2588f827a14SWill Deacon depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 26367640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 265939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 266939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 267939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 268939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 27174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 27263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 27328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 27474c3cbe3SAl Viro 275633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 276633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 277633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 278633b4545SEric Paris help 279f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 280633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 281633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 282633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 283633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 284633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 285633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 286633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 287633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 288633b4545SEric Paris 289d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 290764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 291d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 292391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 293391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 294abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 295abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 296abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 297fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 298fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 299fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 30002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 301fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 302fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 303fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 304fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 305c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 306fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 307fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 308fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 309fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 310fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 313abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 314391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 315c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 316abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 317391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 318391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 319391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 320391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 323391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 324391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 325391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 326abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 328abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 335abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 336abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 337abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 339abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 345c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 351fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 38219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 39519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 40619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 41519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 425c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 426c903ff83SMike Travis 427c903ff83SMike Travischoice 428c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 42931c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 430c903ff83SMike Travis 431c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 432c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 433687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 434c903ff83SMike Travis help 435c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 436c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 437c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 438c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 439c903ff83SMike Travis 440f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 441a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4429fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 443f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 444f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 445f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 446f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 447bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 448bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 449f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4509fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4519fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4529b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4539b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4548008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4559b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4569b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4579b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4589b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4599b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 461a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 462a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4638008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 464a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 465a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 466a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 467a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 468a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 469c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 470c903ff83SMike Travis 471a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 472a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 473a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 474a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 475a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 476a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 4776bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 4786bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 4796bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 4806bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 4816bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 4826bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 4836bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 4846bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 48591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 48691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 48791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 4882b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 4892b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 49091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 49191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 4922b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 4932b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 4942b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 4952b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 4962b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 497af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 4982b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 499d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 50091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 501af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 502d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 503d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 504d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 50591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 50691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 50791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 5088b438766SFrederic Weisbecker default CONTEXT_TRACKING 5091fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 51091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to 51191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended 51291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker quiescent states. 51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the 51491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker full dynticks mode. 515d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 516c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 517c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 518c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 519c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 520f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 521c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 522c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 523c903ff83SMike Travis help 524c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 525c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5264d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5274d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5284d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5294d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5304d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5314d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 532c903ff83SMike Travis 533c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 534c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 535c903ff83SMike Travis 5368932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5378932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5388932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5398932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5408932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5418932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5428932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5438932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5448932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5458932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5468932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5478932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5488932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5498932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5508932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5518932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5528932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5538932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5548932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5558932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5568932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5578932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 563c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 564c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 565f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 566c903ff83SMike Travis default n 567c903ff83SMike Travis help 568c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 569c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 570c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 571c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 572c903ff83SMike Travis 573c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 574c903ff83SMike Travis 575c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 576c903ff83SMike Travis 5778bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 5788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 5793451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 5808bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 5818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 582c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 583c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 584c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 585c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 586c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 587c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 588c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 5898bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 590c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 591c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 5928bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 5938bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 5948bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 595c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 596f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 597c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 598c903ff83SMike Travis help 599f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 600f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 601f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 602c903ff83SMike Travis 60324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 60424278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 60527f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 60624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 60724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 60824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 60924278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 61024278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 61124278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 61224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 61324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 61424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 61524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 61624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 61724278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 61824278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 62024278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 622c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 623c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 624c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 625c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 626c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 627c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 628c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 629c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 630c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 631c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 632c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 633c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 634c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 635c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 636c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 637c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 638c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 639c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 640c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6573fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 65834ed6246SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL" 6593fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6603fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6613fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6623fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 6633fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 6643fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 6653fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 6663fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 6673fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 6683fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 669a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 670a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 671a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 672a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 673a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 674a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 675a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 6763fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 67734ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 6783fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 6793fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 680911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 681911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 682911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 683911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 684911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time. 685911af505SPaul E. McKenney Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs= 686911af505SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter. 687911af505SPaul E. McKenney 688911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 689911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 690*73c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 691911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 692911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 693911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 694911af505SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs. 695911af505SPaul E. McKenney 696911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 697911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 698*73c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 699911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 700911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU. Additional CPUs 701911af505SPaul E. McKenney may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot 702911af505SPaul E. McKenney parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 703911af505SPaul E. McKenney 704911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 705911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 706911af505SPaul E. McKenney 707911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 708911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 709911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 710911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 711911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 712911af505SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. 713911af505SPaul E. McKenney 714911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 715911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 716911af505SPaul E. McKenney 717911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 718911af505SPaul E. McKenney 719c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 720c903ff83SMike Travis 7211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 722f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 740794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 741794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 742794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 743f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 744794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 745794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 746f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 747f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 748f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 749f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 750f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 751794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 752794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 753794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 7545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 765be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7841a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7851a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7861a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 7871a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7881a687c2eSMel Gorman help 7891a687c2eSMel Gorman If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7901a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 7911a687c2eSMel Gorman 792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli it is references to the node the task is running on. 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 80423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 80523964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 8060dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 807ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 80823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 81345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 81445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 815ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 816ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 817ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 81823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 81923964d2dSLi Zefan 820006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 821006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 822418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 823006cb992SPaul Menage help 824006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 825006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 82623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 827006cb992SPaul Menage 82823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 829006cb992SPaul Menage 830dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 83123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 832dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 833dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 834dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 835dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 83608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 83708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 83808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 83908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 84008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 84108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 8421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 845d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 85223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 85323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 85423964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 85523964d2dSLi Zefan default y 85623964d2dSLi Zefan 857d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 858d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 859d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 860d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 86123964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 862d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 863e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 864e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 865e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 866e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 86723964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 868e552b661SPavel Emelianov 869c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 87000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 87179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 872cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 87300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 87484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 87521acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 87600f0b825SBalbir Singh 87700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 87884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 87984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 88084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 88184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 88200f0b825SBalbir Singh 88300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 88484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 88584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 88684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 887c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 88800f0b825SBalbir Singh 889cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 890cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 891cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 892c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 89365e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 894c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 895c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 896c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 897c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 898c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 899c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 900c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 901c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 902c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 903c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 904c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 905c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 90600a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 907627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 908627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 909c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 910a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 911c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 912a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 913a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 914a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 915a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 91643d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 917a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 918a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 919a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 920a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 92100a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 922c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 92319c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 92419c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 925510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 926e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 927e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 928e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 929e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 930e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 931e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 932e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 933c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9342bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9352bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 93619c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 9372bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9382bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9392bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 9402bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9412bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9422bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9432bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9442bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9452bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9462bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 9482bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 949e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 950e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 951e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 952e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 953e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 9542d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 955e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 956e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 957e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 958e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9597c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 9607c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 9617c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9627c941438SDhaval Giani help 9637c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9647c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9657c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9667c941438SDhaval Giani 9677c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9687c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9697c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9707c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9717c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9727c941438SDhaval Giani 973ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 974ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 975ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 976ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 977ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 978ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 979ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 980ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 981ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 982ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 983ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9847c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9857c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9867c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9877c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9887c941438SDhaval Giani help 9897c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 99032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9917c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9927c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 9937c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 9947c941438SDhaval Giani 9957c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9967c941438SDhaval Giani 997afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 99832e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 99979ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1000afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1001afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1002afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1003afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1004afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1005afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1006afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1007afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1008e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1009e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1010afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1011afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1012e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 101379e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 101479e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1015c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1016afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1017afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1018afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1019afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1020afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1021afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1022afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1023afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1024afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1025afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1026afc24d49SVivek Goyal 102723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1028c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1029067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1030067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1031067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1032067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1033067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1034067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1035067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1036067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1037067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1038067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1039067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 10408dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10426a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1043c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1044c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1045c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1046c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1047c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1048c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 105158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 105258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 105317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 105458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 105558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 105658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 105758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1058ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1059ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 106117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1062ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1063ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1064614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1065ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1066aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 106719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 1068e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 10695673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1070e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 10715673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1072aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1073aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1074aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1075e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1076e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1077e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1078e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1079e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1080e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1081e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1082aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1083aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 108474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10859bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 108617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 108774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 108812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1089692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 109074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 109174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1092d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1093d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 109517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1096d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1097d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1098d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1099d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 1102e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED 1103e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known 1104e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t 1105e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with 1106e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # the user namespace. 1107e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman bool 1108e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman default y 1109e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 1110e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman # Filesystems 1111e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on XFS_FS = n 1112e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11135673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 11145673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1115e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 11165673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 11175673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 11185673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 11195673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 11205673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11215673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 11225673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11235091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11245091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11255091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 11265091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11275091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11285091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11295091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11305091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11315091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11325091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11335091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11345091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11355091faa4SMike Galbraith 11367af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11397af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11405d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11635d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1188f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1189f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1193f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1194f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1196f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1202f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1204c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1205c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1206dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1207dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1208c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1209c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1210c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 121196fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1212c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1213c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1214c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1215c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12163a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1217c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12180847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12190847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12200847062aSRandy Dunlap 1221b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1222b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1223b943c460SRandy Dunlap 12246a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1226f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1227f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1234af1839ebSCatalin Marinasconfig HAVE_UID16 1235af1839ebSCatalin Marinas bool 1236af1839ebSCatalin Marinas 1237ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1239af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1240ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1241ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1242ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1243ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1244b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 124626a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1247c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1248b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1249b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 125013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 125113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 125213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 125313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1254b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 125513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 125613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 125713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1258b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1259c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1260ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12617ac57a89SCatalin Marinasconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 12627ac57a89SCatalin Marinas bool 12637ac57a89SCatalin Marinas help 12647ac57a89SCatalin Marinas Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 12657ac57a89SCatalin Marinas 1266b6fca725SVineet Guptaconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1267b6fca725SVineet Gupta bool 1268b6fca725SVineet Gupta help 1269b6fca725SVineet Gupta Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1270b6fca725SVineet Gupta Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1271b6fca725SVineet Gupta about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1272b6fca725SVineet Gupta 1273bf14e3b9SVineet Guptaconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1274bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta bool 1275bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta help 1276bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1277bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1278bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta the unaligned access emulation. 1279bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1280bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta 12811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 12826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 129371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 129471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 129571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 129671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 129771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 129971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 130071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 130171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 130271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 130471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1305d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1306712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 130745f035abSGreg Kroah-Hartman def_bool y 1308712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1309d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1310d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 131274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1313d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1314d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1315d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1316d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1317d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1318d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1319d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1320c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1322c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1323c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1324c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1325c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1326c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1327c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1328c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1329c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1330708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1331046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1332708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1334708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1335708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1336708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13378761f1abSRalf Baechle 1338e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13408761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 134115f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1342e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1343e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1344e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1345e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1346e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13478761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13488761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 13498761f1abSRalf Baechle 13501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 136123f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1370448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1375fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1377448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1378fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1379fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1380fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1381fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1382fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1383fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1384fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1385b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1387448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1388b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1389b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1390b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1391b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1392b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1393b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1394b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1395e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1397448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1398e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1399e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1400e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1401e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1402e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1403e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1404e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1416ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1418ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1419ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1420ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1421ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1422ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1423ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 14246befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14256befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14266befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14276befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14286befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14296befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14306befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14316befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1432cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14330793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1434018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1435018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14360793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1437906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1438906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1439906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1440906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1441906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 144257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14430793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1444cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 144557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1446392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1447cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14484c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1449e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 14500793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 145157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 145257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1454dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 145557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 145657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 145757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 145857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14590793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14600793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14610793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14620793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14630793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 146557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1466dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 146757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14680793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14690793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14700793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14710793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14720793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1473906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1474906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1475906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1476906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1477906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1478906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1479906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1480906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1481906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1482906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1483906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1484906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1485906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14860793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14870793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1488f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1489f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1491f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14922aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14932aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14946a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14952aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1496f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 14973d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 14983d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 14996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 150061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 15013d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 15023d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 15033d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 15043d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 15053d137310SThomas Petazzoni 150641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 150741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1509f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 151041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 151141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 151241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 151341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 151441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 151541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1516b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1517b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1518b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1519b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1520b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1521b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1522b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1523692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1524b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1525b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1526b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1527b943c460SRandy Dunlap 152881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 152981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1530a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 153181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 153381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 153481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 153581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 153681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 153834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 153902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 154081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 154181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 154281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 154381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 154481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 154581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 154681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 154781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 154802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 154902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 155081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 155181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15526a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 155481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 155537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 155637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 155737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 155881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 155981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 156081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1561ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1562ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 15636a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1564ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1565ea637639SJie Zhang help 1566ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1567ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1568ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1569ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1570ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1571ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1572ea637639SJie Zhang 1573ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1574ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1575ea637639SJie Zhang 1576ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1577ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1578ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1579ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1580ea637639SJie Zhang 1581ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1582ea637639SJie Zhang 1583125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1584b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1585125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1586125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1587125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1588125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 15895f87f112SIngo Molnar# 15905f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 15915f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 15925f87f112SIngo Molnar# 159397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 15945f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 159597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1596fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1597fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 15981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1600ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1601ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1602ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1603ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1604158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1605158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1606158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16070f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1608158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1609158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1610ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1611ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1612ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 161866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16380b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16390b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1640826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1641826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1642826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1643826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 164491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 164591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 164691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1647826e4506SLinus Torvalds 16481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1653f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1654f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 165819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 16670d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1687106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1688106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1689106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 169048ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 169148ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 169248ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 169348ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 169448ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 169548ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 169648ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 169748ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1698106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1699106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1700106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1701106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1702106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1703ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1704ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1705ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1706ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1707ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1708106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1709106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1710106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1711106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1712106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1713106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1714ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1715d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1716d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1717d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1718d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1719d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1720d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1721d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1722d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1723d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1724d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1725d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1726ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1727ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1728ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1729ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1730ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1731ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1732ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1733ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1734ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1735ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1736ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1737ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1738ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1739ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1740ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1741ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1742ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1743ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1744ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1745ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1746ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1747ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1748ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1749ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1750ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1751ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 175822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 175922753674SMichal Marek string 176022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 176122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 176222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 176322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 176422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 176522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 176622753674SMichal Marek 17670b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 17680b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 176998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 177098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 177198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 17725f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 17735f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 177498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 177598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1776692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 177798a79d6aSRusty Russell 17781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 17843a65dfe8SJens Axboe 17853a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1786e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1787e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1788e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1789e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 179016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 179116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 179216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 179316295becSSteffen Klassert 1794754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1795754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1796754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1797754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1798754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1799754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18004520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18014520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18024520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18034520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18044520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18054520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18064520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18074520c6a4SDavid Howells 18086beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1809