180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 121e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 265990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 267990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 268990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 278804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2878f827a14SWill Deacon depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 29267640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 294939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 295939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 296939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 297939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29974c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30074c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30163c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 30374c3cbe3SAl Viro 304633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 305633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 306633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 307633b4545SEric Paris help 308f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 309633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 310633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 311633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 312633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 313633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 314633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 315633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 316633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 317633b4545SEric Paris 318d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 319764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 320d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 323abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 324abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 325abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 32902fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 334c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 344c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 346391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 374c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 41119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 42419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 43519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 454c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 455c903ff83SMike Travis 456c903ff83SMike Travischoice 457c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 45831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 459c903ff83SMike Travis 460c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 461c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 462687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 463016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 464c903ff83SMike Travis help 465c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 466c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 467c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 468c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 469c903ff83SMike Travis 470f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 471a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4729fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 47353614714SJames Hogan select IRQ_WORK 474f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 475f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 478bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 479bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4819fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4829fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4839b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4849b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4858008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4879b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 492c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 493c903ff83SMike Travis 494a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 495127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 496a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 497a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 498a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 499a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 5006bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 5016bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5026bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5036bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5046bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5056bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5066bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5076bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 50891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 50991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 51091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5112b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5122b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 51491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5152b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5162b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5172b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5182b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5192b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 520af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5212b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 522d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 52391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 524af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 525d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 526d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 527d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 52891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 52991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 53091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 531d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5321fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 533d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 534d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 535d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 536d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 537d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 538d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 539d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 540d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 541d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 554d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 555c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 556c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 557c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 558c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 559f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 560c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 561c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 562c903ff83SMike Travis help 563c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 564c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5654d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5664d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5674d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5684d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5694d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5704d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 571c903ff83SMike Travis 572c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 573c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 574c903ff83SMike Travis 5758932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5768932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5778932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5788932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5798932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5808932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5818932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5828932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5868932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5878932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 602c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 603c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 604f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 605c903ff83SMike Travis default n 606c903ff83SMike Travis help 607c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 608c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 609c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 610c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 611c903ff83SMike Travis 612c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 613c903ff83SMike Travis 614c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 615c903ff83SMike Travis 6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6178bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6183451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6208bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 627c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 630c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 634c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 635f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 636c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 637c903ff83SMike Travis help 638f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 639f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 640f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 641c903ff83SMike Travis 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 64427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 65924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 661c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 662c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 663c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 664c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 665c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6963fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6979a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 708a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 709a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 714a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 71634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 719911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 720911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 721911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 722911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 724676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 725676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 726676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 727911af505SPaul E. McKenney 728911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 729911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 73073c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 732911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 733911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney 742911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 74473c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 745911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 752911af505SPaul E. McKenney 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 754676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 755676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney 757911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 758911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 759911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 760911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 761911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney 769911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 771911af505SPaul E. McKenney 772911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 773911af505SPaul E. McKenney 774c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 775c903ff83SMike Travis 7761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 777f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 795794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 796794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 797794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 798f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 799794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 800794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 801f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 802f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 803f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 804f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 805f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 806794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 807794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 808794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 81638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 819be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 820be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 821be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 822be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 823be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 824be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 825be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 826be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 827be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8421a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8431a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8441a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 8451a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8461a687c2eSMel Gorman help 8471a687c2eSMel Gorman If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8481a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 8491a687c2eSMel Gorman 850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 852be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 853be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli it is references to the node the task is running on. 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 86223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 86323964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 864ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 86523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 87045ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 87145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 872ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 873ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 874ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 87523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 87623964d2dSLi Zefan 877006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 878006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 879418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 880006cb992SPaul Menage help 881006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 882006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 88323964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 884006cb992SPaul Menage 88523964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 886006cb992SPaul Menage 887dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 88823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 889dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 890dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 891dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 892dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 89308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 89408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 89508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 89608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 89708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 89808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 8991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 902d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 90923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 91023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 91123964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 91223964d2dSLi Zefan default y 91323964d2dSLi Zefan 914d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 915d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 916d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 917d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 91823964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 919d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 920e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 921e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 922e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 923e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 92423964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 925e552b661SPavel Emelianov 926c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 92700f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 92879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 929cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 930*79bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 93100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 93284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 93321acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 93400f0b825SBalbir Singh 93500f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 93684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 937f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 93884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 93984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 94000f0b825SBalbir Singh 94100f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 94284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 94384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 94484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 945c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 94600f0b825SBalbir Singh 947cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 948cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 949cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 950c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 95165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 952c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 953c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 954c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 955c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 956c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 957c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 958c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 959c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 960c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 961c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 962c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 963c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 96400a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 965627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 966627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 967c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 968a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 969c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 970a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 971a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 972a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 973a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 97443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 97507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 976a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 977a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 978a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 97900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 980c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 98119c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 98219c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 983510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 984e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 985e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 986e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 987e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 988e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 989e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 990e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 991c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9922bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9932bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 99419c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 9952bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9962bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9972bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 9982bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10002bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10012bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10032bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10042bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10052bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10062bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1007e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1008e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1009e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1010e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1011e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10122d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1013e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1014e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1015e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1016e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10177c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10187c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10197c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10207c941438SDhaval Giani help 10217c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10227c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10237c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10247c941438SDhaval Giani 10257c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10267c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10277c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10287c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10297c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10307c941438SDhaval Giani 1031ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1032ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1033ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1034ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1035ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1036ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1037ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1038ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1039ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10427c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10437c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10447c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10457c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10467c941438SDhaval Giani help 10477c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 104832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10497c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10507c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10517c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10527c941438SDhaval Giani 10537c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10547c941438SDhaval Giani 1055afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 105632e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 105779ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1058afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1059afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1060afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1062afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1063afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1064afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1065afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1066e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1067e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1068afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1069afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1070e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 107179e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 107279e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1073c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1074afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1075afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1076afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1077afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1078afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1079afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1080afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1081afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1082afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1084afc24d49SVivek Goyal 108523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1086c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1087067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1088067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1089067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1090067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1091067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1092067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1093067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1094067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1095067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1096067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1097067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 10988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11006a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1101c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1102c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1103c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1104c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1105c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1106c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 110958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 111058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 111117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 111258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 111358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 111458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 111558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1116ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1117ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 111917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1120ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1121ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1122614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1123ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1124aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 112519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11265673a94cSEric W. Biederman select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1127e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman 11285673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1129aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1130aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1131aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1132e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1133e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1134e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1135e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1136e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1137e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1138e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1139aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1140aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 114174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11429bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 114317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 114474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 114512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1146692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 114774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 114874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1149d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1150d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 115217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1153d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1154d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1155d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1156d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11595673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 11605673a94cSEric W. Biederman bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 11615673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 11625673a94cSEric W. Biederman help 11635673a94cSEric W. Biederman While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 11645673a94cSEric W. Biederman the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 11655673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11665673a94cSEric W. Biederman Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 11675673a94cSEric W. Biederman 11685091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11695091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11705091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11715091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11725091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11735091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11745091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11755091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11765091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11775091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11785091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11795091faa4SMike Galbraith 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11845d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12075d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1232f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1233f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1234f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1235f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1236f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1240f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1241f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1242f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1243f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1244f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1245f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1246f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1247f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1248c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1249c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1250dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1251dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1252c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1253c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1254c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1256c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1257c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1258c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1259c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12603a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1261c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12620847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12630847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12640847062aSRandy Dunlap 1265b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1266b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1267b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1268657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1269657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1270657a5209SMike Frysinger 1271657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1272657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1273657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger 1276657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1280657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1281657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger 1283657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1288657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger 1291657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1293657a5209SMike Frysinger 12946a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1296f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1297f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1304ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1306af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1307ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1308ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1309ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1310ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1311b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 131326a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1314c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1315b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1316b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 131713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 131813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 131913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 132013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1321b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 132213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 132313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 132413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1325b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1326c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1327ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 134071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 134171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 134271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 134371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 134471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 134771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 134871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 134971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 135171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1352d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1353d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1354d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 135674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1357d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1358d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1359d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1360d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1361d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1362d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1363d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1364c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1366c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1367c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1368c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1369c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1370c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1371c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1372c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1373c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1374708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1375046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1376708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1378708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1379708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1380708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13818761f1abSRalf Baechle 1382e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13848761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 138515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1386e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1387e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1388e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1389e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1390e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 140223f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1411448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1416fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1418448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1419fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1420fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1421fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1422fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1423fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1424fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1425fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1426b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1428448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1429b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1430b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1431b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1432b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1433b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1434b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1435b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1436e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1438448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1439e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1440e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1441e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1442e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1443e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1444e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1445e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1457ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1459ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1460ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1461ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1462ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1463ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1464ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1465657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1469657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1471657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1472657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1473657a5209SMike Frysinger 14746befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14786befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14796befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14806befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14816befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1482cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1484018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1485018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1487906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1488906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1489906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1490906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1491906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 149257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14930793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1494cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 149557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1496392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1497cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14984c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1499e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 15000793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 150157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 150257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1504dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 150557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 150657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 150757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 150857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15090793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15100793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15110793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15120793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15130793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15140793a61dSThomas Gleixner 151557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1516dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 151757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15180793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15190793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15210793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1523906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1524906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1525906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1526906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1527906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1528906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1529906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1530906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1531906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1532906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1533906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1534906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1535906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15360793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1538f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1539f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1541f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15432aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15446a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15452aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1546f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 154741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 154841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1550f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 155141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 155241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 155341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 155441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 155541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 155641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1557b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1558b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1559b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1560b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1561b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1562b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1563b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1564692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1565b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1566b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1567b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1568b943c460SRandy Dunlap 156981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1571a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 157281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157381819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 157481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 157681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 157781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157881819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 157934013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 158002f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 158181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 158281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 158381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 158481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158581819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 158681819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 158781819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 158881819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 158902f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 159002f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15936a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 159481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 159581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159637291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 159737291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 159837291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 159981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 160181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1602345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1603345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1604b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1605345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1606345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1607345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1608345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1609345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1610345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1611345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1612345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1613ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1614ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16156a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1616ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1617ea637639SJie Zhang help 1618ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1619ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1620ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1621ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1622ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1623ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1624ea637639SJie Zhang 1625ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1626ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1627ea637639SJie Zhang 1628ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1629ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1630ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1631ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1632ea637639SJie Zhang 1633ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1634ea637639SJie Zhang 1635125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1636b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1637125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1638125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1639125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1640125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16415f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16425f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16435f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16445f87f112SIngo Molnar# 164597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16465f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 164797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1648fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1649fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1652ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1653ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1654ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1655ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1656158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1657158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1658158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16590f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1660158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1661158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1662ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1663ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1664ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 167066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 167211097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16910b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16920b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1693826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1694826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1695826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1696826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 169791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 169891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 169991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1700826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1706f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1707f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 171119c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17200d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1740106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1741106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1742106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 174348ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 174448ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 174548ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 174648ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 174748ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 174848ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 174948ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 175048ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1751106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1752106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1753106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1754106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1755106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1760ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1764106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1765106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1766106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1768d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1769d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1770d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1771d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1772d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1773d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1774d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1775d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1776d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1777d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1778d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1779ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1781ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1782ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1783ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1784ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1785ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1786ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1787ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1788ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1789ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1790ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1791ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1796ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1797ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1798ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1799ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1800ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1808ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1809ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1810ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 181122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 181222753674SMichal Marek string 181322753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 181422753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 181522753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 181622753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 181722753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 181822753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 181922753674SMichal Marek 18200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 182298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 182398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 182498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18255f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18265f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 182798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 182898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1829692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 183098a79d6aSRusty Russell 18311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 18373a65dfe8SJens Axboe 18383a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1839e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1840e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1841e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1842e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 184316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 184416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 184516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 184616295becSSteffen Klassert 1847754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1848754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1849754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1850754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1851754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1852754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18534520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18544520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18554520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18564520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18574520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18584520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18594520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18604520c6a4SDavid Howells 18616beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1862