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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
325a958db3SKees Cook	bool
335a958db3SKees Cook	default y
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
45dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
46dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5284336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
5384336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5484336466SRoland McGrath	help
5584336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5684336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5784336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5884336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5984336466SRoland McGrath
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
70aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
71aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
72aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
73aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
74aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
766e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
77aaebf433SRyan Anderson
78aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
80aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson
836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
876e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
89aaebf433SRyan Anderson
902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
993ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1003ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1013ebe1243SLasse Collin
1027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
10530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
10630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
10730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1083ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
10930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
11030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
11130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
11230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
11330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1390a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1490a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1500a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1523ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1533ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1543ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1553ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1563ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1573ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1583ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1593ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1603ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1613ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1623ebe1243SLasse Collin
1633ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1643ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1653ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin
1677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1687dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1710a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
172681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
177bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
178bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
179bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
180bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
181bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
182bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
183bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
184bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
185bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
1861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1889361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
211a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
212a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
21919c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
225b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
233bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
239990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
240990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
241990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
242990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
243990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
244990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
245990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
246990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
247990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
248990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
249990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
250990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
2511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
253804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2628f827a14SWill Deacon	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
26767640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
269939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
270939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
271939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
272939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
27474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
27574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
27663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
27728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
27874c3cbe3SAl Viro
279633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
280633b4545SEric Paris	bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
281633b4545SEric Paris	depends on AUDIT
282633b4545SEric Paris	help
283f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds	  The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
284633b4545SEric Paris	  CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
285633b4545SEric Paris	  but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
286633b4545SEric Paris	  previously set.  On systems which use systemd or a similar central
287633b4545SEric Paris	  process to restart login services this should be set to true.  On older
288633b4545SEric Paris	  systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
289633b4545SEric Paris	  start processes this should be set to false.  Setting this to true allows
290633b4545SEric Paris	  one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
291633b4545SEric Paris	  but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
292633b4545SEric Paris
293d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
294764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
295d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
296391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
297391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
298abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
299abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
300abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
301fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
302fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
303fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
30402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
305fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
306fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
307fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
308fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
309fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390
310fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
313fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
314fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
316fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
317abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
318391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
319391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
320abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
321391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
322391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
323391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
324391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
325391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
326391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
327391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
329391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
331abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
335abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
336abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
337abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
339abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
343abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
344abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
346abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
351fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
38619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
39919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
41019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
41919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
429c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
430c903ff83SMike Travis
431c903ff83SMike Travischoice
432c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
43331c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
434c903ff83SMike Travis
435c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
436c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
437687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
438c903ff83SMike Travis	help
439c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
440c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
441c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
442c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
443c903ff83SMike Travis
444f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
445a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
4469fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
447f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
448f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
449f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
451bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
452bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
453f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4549fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4559fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4569b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4579b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4588008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
4599b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4649b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
465a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
466a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4678008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
468a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
469a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
470a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
471a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
472a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
473c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
474c903ff83SMike Travis
475a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
476a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
477a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
478a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
479a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
480a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
4816bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
4826bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
4836bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
4846bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
4856bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
4866bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
4876bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
4886bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
48991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
49091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
49191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
4922b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS
4932b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
49491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
49591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
4962b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	help
4972b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
4982b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
4992b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
5002b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
501af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
5022b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker
503d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
50491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
505af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  adds unnecessary overhead.
506d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
507d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure say N
508d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
50991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
51091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
51191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
5121fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
51491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
51591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  quiescent states.
51691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
51791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  full dynticks mode.
518d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
519c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
520c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
521c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
522c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
523f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
524c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
525c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
526c903ff83SMike Travis	help
527c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
528c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5294d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5304d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5314d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5324d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5334d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5344d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
535c903ff83SMike Travis
536c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
537c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
538c903ff83SMike Travis
5398932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5408932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5418932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
5428932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
5438932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
5448932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5458932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5468932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5478932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5488932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5498932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5508932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5518932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
5528932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
5538932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
5548932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
5558932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
5568932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
5578932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5648932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
566c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
567c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
568f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
569c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
570c903ff83SMike Travis	help
571c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
572c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
573c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
574c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
575c903ff83SMike Travis
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
577c903ff83SMike Travis
578c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
579c903ff83SMike Travis
5808bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
5818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
582b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ && SMP
5838bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
5848bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
585ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in
586ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly.
587ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the
588ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency.
5898bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
590ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
591ba49df47SPaul E. McKenney	  	care about real-time response.
5928bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
5938bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
5948bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
595c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
596f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
597c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
598c903ff83SMike Travis	help
599f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
600f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
601f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
602c903ff83SMike Travis
60324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
60424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
60527f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
60624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
60724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
60824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
60924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
61024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
61124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
61224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
61324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
61424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
61524278d14SPaul E. McKenney
61624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
61724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
61824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
62024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
622c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
623c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  preempted RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working
624c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
625c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
626c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
627c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time CPU-bound thread.  The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
628c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
629c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
630c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
631c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
632c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
633c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
634c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
635c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
636c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
637c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
638c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
639c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
640c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6573fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
65834ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL"
6593fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
6603fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6613fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
6623fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
6633fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
6643fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
6653fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
6663fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
6673fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
6683fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
6693fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to
6703fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded.
6713fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified
6723fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each
6733fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force
6743fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
6753fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
67634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
6773fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
6783fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
679*911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
680*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
681*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
682*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
683*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time.
684*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs=
685*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter.
686*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
687*911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
688*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
689*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
690*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
691*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
692*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
693*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs.
694*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
695*911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
696*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
697*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
698*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
699*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU.  Additional CPUs
700*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot
701*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
702*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
703*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
704*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
705*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
706*911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
707*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
708*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
709*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
710*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
711*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.
712*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
713*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
714*911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
715*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
716*911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
717*911af505SPaul E. McKenney
718c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
719c903ff83SMike Travis
7201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
721f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
739794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
740794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
741794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
742f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
743794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
744794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
745f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
746f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
747f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
748f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
749f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
750794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
751794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
752794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
7535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
759be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
765be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	default y
780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7831a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7841a687c2eSMel Gorman	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7851a687c2eSMel Gorman	default y
7861a687c2eSMel Gorman	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7871a687c2eSMel Gorman	help
7881a687c2eSMel Gorman	  If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7891a687c2eSMel Gorman	  machine.
7901a687c2eSMel Gorman
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  it is references to the node the task is running on.
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
80323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
80423964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
8050dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
806ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
80723964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
81245ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
81345ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
814ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
815ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
816ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
81723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
81823964d2dSLi Zefan
819006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
820006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
821418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
822006cb992SPaul Menage	help
823006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
824006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
82523964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
826006cb992SPaul Menage
82723964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
828006cb992SPaul Menage
829dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
83023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
831dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
832dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
833dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
834dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
83508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
83608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
83708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
83808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
83908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
84008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
8411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
844d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
85123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
85223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
85323964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
85423964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
85523964d2dSLi Zefan
856d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
857d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
858d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
859d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
86023964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
861d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
862e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
863e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
864e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
865e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
86623964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
867e552b661SPavel Emelianov
868c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
86900f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
87079ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
871cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
87200f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
87384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
87421acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
87500f0b825SBalbir Singh
87600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
87784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
87884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
87984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
88084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
88100f0b825SBalbir Singh
88200f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
88384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
88484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
88584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
886c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
88700f0b825SBalbir Singh
888cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
889cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
890cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
891c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
89265e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
893c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
894c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
895c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
896c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
897c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
898c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
899c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
900c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
901c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
902c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
903c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
904c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
90500a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
906627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
907627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
908c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
909a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
910c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
911a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
912a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
913a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
914a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
91543d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
916a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
917a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
918a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
919a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
92000a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
921c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
92219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
92319c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
924510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
925e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
926e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
927e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
928e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
929e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
930e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
931e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
932c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9332bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9342bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
93519c92399SKees Cook	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
9362bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9372bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9382bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
9392bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9402bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9412bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9422bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9432bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9442bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9452bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9462bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
9472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
948e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
949e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
950e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
951e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
952e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
9532d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
954e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
955e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
956e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
957e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9587c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
9597c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
9607c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9617c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9627c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9637c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9647c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9657c941438SDhaval Giani
9667c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9677c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9687c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9697c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9707c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9717c941438SDhaval Giani
972ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
973ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
974ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
975ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
976ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
977ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
978ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
979ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
980ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
981ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
982ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9837c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9847c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9857c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9877c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9887c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
98932bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9907c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9917c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
9927c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
9937c941438SDhaval Giani
9947c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9957c941438SDhaval Giani
996afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
99732e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
99879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
999afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1000afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1001afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1002afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1003afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1004afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1005afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1006afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1007e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1008e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1009afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1010afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1011e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
101279e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
101379e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1014c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1015afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1016afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1017afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1018afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1019afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1020afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1021afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1022afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1023afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1024afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1025afc24d49SVivek Goyal
102623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1027c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1028067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1029067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1030067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1031067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1032067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1033067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1034067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1035067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1036067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1037067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1038067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
10398dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10406a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1042c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1043c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1044c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1045c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1046c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1047c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
105058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
105158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
105217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
105358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
105458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
105558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
105658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1057ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1058ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
106017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1061ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1062ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1063614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1064ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1065aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
106619c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
1067e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
10685673a94cSEric W. Biederman	select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1069e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
10705673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1071aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1072aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1073aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1074e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1075e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1076e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1077e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1078e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1079e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1080e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1081aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1082aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
108374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10849bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
108517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
108674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
108712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1088692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
108974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
109074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1091d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1092d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
109417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1095d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1096d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1097d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1098d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
1101e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED
1102e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1103e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1104e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1105e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# the user namespace.
1106e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	bool
1107e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	default y
1108e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
1109e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# Filesystems
1110e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on XFS_FS = n
1111e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
11125673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
11135673a94cSEric W. Biederman	bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1114e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
11155673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
11165673a94cSEric W. Biederman	help
11175673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
11185673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
11195673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11205673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
11215673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11225091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11235091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11245091faa4SMike Galbraith	select EVENTFD
11255091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11265091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11275091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11285091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11295091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11305091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11315091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11325091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11345091faa4SMike Galbraith
11357af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
11367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11395d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11625d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1187f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1188f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1189f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1193f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1194f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1196f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1202f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1203c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1204c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1205dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1206dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1207c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1208c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1209c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
121096fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1211c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1212c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1213c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
1214c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12153a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1216c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12170847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12180847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12190847062aSRandy Dunlap
1220b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1221b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1222b943c460SRandy Dunlap
12236a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12246a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1225f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1226f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1233af1839ebSCatalin Marinasconfig HAVE_UID16
1234af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	bool
1235af1839ebSCatalin Marinas
1236ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1238af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	depends on HAVE_UID16
1239ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1240ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1241ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1242ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1243b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
124526a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1246c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1247b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1248b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
124913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
125013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
125113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
125213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1253b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
125413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
125513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
125613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1257b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1258c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1259ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12607ac57a89SCatalin Marinasconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
12617ac57a89SCatalin Marinas	bool
12627ac57a89SCatalin Marinas	help
12637ac57a89SCatalin Marinas	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
12647ac57a89SCatalin Marinas
1265b6fca725SVineet Guptaconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1266b6fca725SVineet Gupta	bool
1267b6fca725SVineet Gupta	help
1268b6fca725SVineet Gupta	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1269b6fca725SVineet Gupta	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1270b6fca725SVineet Gupta	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1271b6fca725SVineet Gupta
1272bf14e3b9SVineet Guptaconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1273bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	bool
1274bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	help
1275bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1276bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1277bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	  the unaligned access emulation.
1278bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1279bf14e3b9SVineet Gupta
12801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
12816a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
129271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
129371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
129471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
129571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
129671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
129871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
129971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
130071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
130171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
130371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1304d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1305712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
130645f035abSGreg Kroah-Hartman	def_bool y
1307712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
1308d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1309d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
131174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1312d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1313d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1314d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1315d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1316d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1317d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1318d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1319c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1321c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1322c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1323c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1324c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1325c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1326c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1327c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1328c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1329708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1330046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1331708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1333708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1334708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1335708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13368761f1abSRalf Baechle
1337e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13398761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
134015f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1341e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1342e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1343e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1344e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1345e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13468761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13478761f1abSRalf Baechle	bool
13488761f1abSRalf Baechle
13491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13586a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
136023f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1369448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1374fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1376448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1377fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1378fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1379fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1380fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1381fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1382fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1383fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1384b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1386448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1387b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1388b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1389b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1390b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1391b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1392b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1393b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1394e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
13956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1396448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1397e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1398e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1399e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1400e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1401e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1402e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1403e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1415ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1417ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1418ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1419ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1420ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1421ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
1422ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
14236befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
14246befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
14256befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
14266befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
14276befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
14286befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
14296befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
14306befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1431cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14320793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1433018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1434018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
14350793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1436906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1437906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1438906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1439906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1440906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
144157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
14420793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1443cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
144457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1445392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1446cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14474c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1448e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
14490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
145057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
145157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
14520793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1453dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
145457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
145557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
145657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
145757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
14580793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
14590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
14600793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
14610793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
14620793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
14630793a61dSThomas Gleixner
146457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1465dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
146657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
14670793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
14680793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
14690793a61dSThomas Gleixner
14700793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
14710793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1472906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1473906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1474906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1475906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1476906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1477906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1478906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1479906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1480906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1481906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1482906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1483906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1484906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
14850793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
14860793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1487f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1488f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
14896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1490f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
14912aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
14922aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
14936a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
14942aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1495f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
14963d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
14973d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
14986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
149961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
15003d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
15013d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
15023d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
15033d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
15043d137310SThomas Petazzoni
150541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
150641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
15076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1508f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
150941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
151041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
151141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
151241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
151341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
151441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1515b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1516b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1517b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1518b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1519b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1520b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1521b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1522692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1523b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1524b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1525b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1526b943c460SRandy Dunlap
152781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
152881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1529a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
153081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
153181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
153281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
153381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
153481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
153581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
153681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
153734013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
153802f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
153981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
154081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
154181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
154281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
154381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
154481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
154581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
154681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
154702f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
154802f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
15516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
155281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
155437291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
155537291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
155637291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
155781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
155981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1560ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1561ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
15626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1563ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1564ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1565ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1566ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1567ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1568ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1569ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1570ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1571ea637639SJie Zhang
1572ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1573ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1574ea637639SJie Zhang
1575ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1576ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1577ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1578ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1579ea637639SJie Zhang
1580ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1581ea637639SJie Zhang
1582125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1583b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1584125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1585125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1586125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1587125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
15885f87f112SIngo Molnar#
15895f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
15905f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
15915f87f112SIngo Molnar#
159297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
15935f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
159497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1595fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1596fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
15971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1599ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1600ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1601ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1602ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1603158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1604158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1605158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
16060f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1607158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1608158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1609ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1610ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1611ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
16121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
161766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16370b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
16380b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1639826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1640826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1641826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1642826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
164391e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
164491e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
164591e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1646826e4506SLinus Torvalds
16471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1652f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1653f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
165719c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
16660d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1686106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1687106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1688106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
168948ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
169048ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
169148ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
169248ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
169348ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
169448ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
169548ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
169648ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1697106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1698106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1699106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1700106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1701106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1702ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1703ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1704ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1705ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1706ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1707106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1708106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1709106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1710106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1711106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1712106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1713ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1714d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1715d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1716d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1717d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1718d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1719d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1720d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1721d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1722d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1723d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1724d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1725ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1726ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1727ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1728ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1729ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1730ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1731ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1732ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1733ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1734ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1735ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1736ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1737ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1738ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1739ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1740ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1741ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1742ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1743ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1744ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1745ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1746ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1747ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1748ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1749ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1750ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1751ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
175722753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
175822753674SMichal Marek	string
175922753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
176022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
176122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
176222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
176322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
176422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
176522753674SMichal Marek
17660b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
17670b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
176898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
176998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
177098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
17715f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
17725f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
177398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
177498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1775692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
177698a79d6aSRusty Russell
17771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
17833a65dfe8SJens Axboe
17843a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1785e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1786e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1787e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1788e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
178916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
179016295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
179116295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
179216295becSSteffen Klassert
1793754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1794754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1795754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
1796754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
1797754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
1798754b7b63SAndi Kleen
17994520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
18004520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
18014520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
18024520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
18034520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
18044520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
18054520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
18064520c6a4SDavid Howells
18076beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
1808