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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 BROKEN
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
4984336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5084336466SRoland McGrath	help
5184336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5284336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5384336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5484336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5584336466SRoland McGrath
564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
574bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
584bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
594bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
604bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
614bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
624bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
634bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
654bb16672SJiri Slaby
664bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
694bb16672SJiri Slaby
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
83aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1103ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1113ebe1243SLasse Collin
1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2139361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
24419c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
28769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
28869369a70SJosh Triplett	default y
28969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
29069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
29169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
29269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
29369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
29469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
29569369a70SJosh Triplett
2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
298804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
31567640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
318939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
319939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32374c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32463c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32528a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
32674c3cbe3SAl Viro
327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
367554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
3972813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
42219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4242813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
43619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
438f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
44819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
45719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
467c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
468c903ff83SMike Travis
469c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
470e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
471e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
472c903ff83SMike Travis	help
473c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
474c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
475c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
476c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
477c903ff83SMike Travis
47828f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
479e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
480e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if PREEMPT
481f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
485bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
486bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4889fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4899fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
491e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
492e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT
50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	default n
50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	help
50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51483fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
51783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
51883fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
51983fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5218315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
52282d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney	bool
5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5268315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5278315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5288315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5298315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
53128f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5346bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5356bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5366bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5376bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
54091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
54191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
54291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
54391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5451fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
56199c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
567d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
568c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
569c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
570c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
571c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
57205c5df31SPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
573c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
574c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
575c903ff83SMike Travis	help
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
577c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5804d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5814d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5824d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5834d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
584c903ff83SMike Travis
585c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
586c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
587c903ff83SMike Travis
5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5908739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 64 if 64BIT
5918739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 32 if !64BIT
59247d631afSPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
61778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
6188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
633c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
63428f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
635c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
636c903ff83SMike Travis	help
637f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
63828f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
639f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
640c903ff83SMike Travis
64124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
64378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65421871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
65521871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
656a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
657a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
658a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
659a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
66026730f55SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT
66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66221871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
66321871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
66421871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
66521871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
66621871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
66721871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
66821871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
66921871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
67521871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
68021871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney
69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6999a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
70028f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
701be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7073fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
714a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
715a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
716a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
717a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
71934ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7213fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
722911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
723911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
724911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7254568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
726911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
727676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
728676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
729676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
731911af505SPaul E. McKenney
732911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
733911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
734911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
735911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
736911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
740676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
741676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
742676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
744911af505SPaul E. McKenney
745911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
746911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
747911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
754911af505SPaul E. McKenney
755911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
758911af505SPaul E. McKenney
759911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
760911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
761911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
762911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
769911af505SPaul E. McKenney
770911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
771911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
772911af505SPaul E. McKenney
773911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
774911af505SPaul E. McKenney
775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	bool
777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	default n
778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	help
779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
784ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  init is exec'ed.
785ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
786ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
787ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
788c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
789c903ff83SMike Travis
790de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
791de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
792de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
793de5b56baSVivek Goyal
7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
795f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
796de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
814794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
815794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
816fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
817f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
818361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
819794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
82123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
82223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
82323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
82423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
826f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
827f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
828f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
829f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
830794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
831794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
832794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
83423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
839361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
8735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
8745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
87538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
87638ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
87738ff87f7SStephen Boyd
878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
885be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
886be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
887be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
888be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
889be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
890be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
891be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
892be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
893be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
894be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9056d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9096f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9106f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
91723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9186341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9192bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
920d59cfc09STejun Heo	select PERCPU_RWSEM
921ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
92223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
92745ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
92845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
929ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
930ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
931ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
93223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
93323964d2dSLi Zefan
934006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
935006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
936418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
937006cb992SPaul Menage	help
938006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
939006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
94023964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
941006cb992SPaul Menage
94223964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
943006cb992SPaul Menage
944dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
94523964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
946dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
947dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
948dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
949dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
95049b786eaSAleksa Saraiconfig CGROUP_PIDS
95149b786eaSAleksa Sarai	bool "PIDs cgroup subsystem"
95249b786eaSAleksa Sarai	help
95349b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
95449b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
95549b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
95649b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
95749b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
95849b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
95949b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening.
96049b786eaSAleksa Sarai
96149b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
96249b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem),
96349b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
96449b786eaSAleksa Sarai	  attach to a cgroup.
96549b786eaSAleksa Sarai
96608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
96708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
96808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
96908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
97008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
97108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
9721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
975d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
98223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
98323964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
98423964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
98523964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
98623964d2dSLi Zefan
987d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
988d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
989d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
990d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
99123964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
992d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
9933e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9943e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
9953e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
996c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
99700f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
9983e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
99979bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
100000f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
100184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
100221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
100300f0b825SBalbir Singh
1004c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
100565e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
1006c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
1007c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
1008c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1009c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1010c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1011c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1012c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1013c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1014c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1015c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1016c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1017c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
101800a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
1019627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
1020627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
1021c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
1022a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
1023c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
1024a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
1025a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
1026a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1027a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
102843d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
102907555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
1030a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
1031a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1032a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
103300a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1034c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
103519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
103619c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
1037510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
1038e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
1039e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1040e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1041e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1042e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1043e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1044e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
1045c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10462bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
104871f87beeSJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
104971f87beeSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
10502bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
10512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
10522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
10532bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
10612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
1062e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
1063e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1064e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1065e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
1066e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
10672d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1068e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
1069e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
1070e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
1071e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10727c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
10737c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
10747c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10757c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10767c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10777c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10787c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10797c941438SDhaval Giani
10807c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10817c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10827c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10837c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10847c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10857c941438SDhaval Giani
1086ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1087ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1088ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1089ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1090ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1091ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1092ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1093ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1094ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1095ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1096ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10977c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10987c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10997c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
11007c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
11017c941438SDhaval Giani	help
11027c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
110332bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
11047c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
11057c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
11067c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
11077c941438SDhaval Giani
11087c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
11097c941438SDhaval Giani
1110afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
111132e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
111279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1113afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1114afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1115afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1117afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1118afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1120afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1121e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1122e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1123afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1125e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
112679e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
112779e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1128c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1130afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1131afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1132afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1133afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1134afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1135afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1136afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1137afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1138afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1139afc24d49SVivek Goyal
114089e9b9e0STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
114189e9b9e0STejun Heo	bool
114289e9b9e0STejun Heo	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
114389e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
114489e9b9e0STejun Heo
114523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1146c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1147067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1148067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
11492e13ba54SIago López Galeiras	select PROC_CHILDREN
1150067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1151067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1152067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1153067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1154067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1155067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1157067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1158067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11612813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1163c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1164c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1165c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1166c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1167c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1168c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11708dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
117158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
117258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
117317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
117458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
117558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
117658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
117758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1178ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1179ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
118117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1182ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1183ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1184614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1185ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1186aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
118719c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11885673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1189aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1190aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1191aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1192e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1193e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1194e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1195e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1196e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1197e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1198e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1200aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
120174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12029bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
120317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
120474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
120512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1206692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
120774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
120874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1210d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
121217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1213d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1214d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1215d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1216d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12195091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12205091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12215091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12225091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12235091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12245091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12255091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12265091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12275091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12285091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith
12317af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12325d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12555d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1296c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1297c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1298dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1299dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1300c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1301c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1302c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
130396fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1304c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
130531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
130631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1307c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13083a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1309c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13100847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13110847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13120847062aSRandy Dunlap
1313b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1314b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1315b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1316657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1317657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1318657a5209SMike Frysinger
1319657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1320657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1321657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1322657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1323657a5209SMike Frysinger
1324657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1325657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1326657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1327657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1328657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1329657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1330657a5209SMike Frysinger
1331657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1332657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1333657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1334657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1335657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1336657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1337657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1338657a5209SMike Frysinger
1339657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1340657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1341657a5209SMike Frysinger
1342f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1343f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1344f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1345f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13466a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1348f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1349f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1356ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13582813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1359ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1360ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1361ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1362ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13632813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13642813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13652813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13662813893fSIulia Manda	help
13672813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13682813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13692813893fSIulia Manda
13702813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13712813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13722813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13732813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13742813893fSIulia Manda
13752813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13762813893fSIulia Manda
1377f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1378f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1379f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1380f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1381f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1382f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1383f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1384f6187769SFabian Frederick
1385f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1386f6187769SFabian Frederick
13876af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13906af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13916af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13936af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13946af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13966af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1397b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
13986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
139926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1400c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1401b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1402b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
140313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
140413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
140513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
140613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1407b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
140813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
140913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
141013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1411b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1412c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1413ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
14156a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
142671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
142771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
142871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
142971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
143071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
143271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
143371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
143471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
143571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
143771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1438d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1439d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1440d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
144274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1443d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1444d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1445d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1446d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1447d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1448d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1449d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1450c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1452c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1453c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1454c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1455c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1456c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1457c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1458c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1459c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1460708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1461046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1462708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1464708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1465708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1466708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14678761f1abSRalf Baechle
1468e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14708761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
147115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1472e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1473e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1474e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1475e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1476e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14866a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
148823f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
149503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
149662b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
149703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
149803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
149903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
150003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
150103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1505448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1510fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1512448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1513fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1514fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1515fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1516fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1517fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1518fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1519fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1520b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1522448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1523b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1524b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1525b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1526b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1527b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1528b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1529b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1530e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15316a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1532448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1533e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1534e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1535e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1536e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1537e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1538e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1539e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1540f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1541f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1542e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1543f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1544f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1545f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1546f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1547f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1548f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1549f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
15501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1561ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1563ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1564ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1565ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1566ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1567ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1568ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1569d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1570d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1571d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1572d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1573d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1574d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1575d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1576d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1577d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1578d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1579*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD
1580*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1581*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	select ANON_INODES
1582*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	default y
1583*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
1584*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	help
1585*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1586*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  handle page faults in userland.
1587*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1588*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  If unsure, say Y.
1589*a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1590657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1591657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1592657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1593657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1594657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1595657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1596657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1597657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1598657a5209SMike Frysinger
15996befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16015d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16026befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16036befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1608cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16090793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1610018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1611018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16120793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1613906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1614906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1615906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1616906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1617906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
161857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16190793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1620cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
162157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1622392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1623cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16244c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1625e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
162683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
162857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
162957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16300793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1631dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
163257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
163357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
163457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
163557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16390793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16400793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
164257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1643dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
164457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16450793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16460793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16470793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16490793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1650906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1651906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1652906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1653cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1654906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1655906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1656906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1657906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1658906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1659906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1660906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1661906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1662906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16630793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16640793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1665f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1666f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1668f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1673f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
167441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
167541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1677f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
167841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
167941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
168041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
168141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
168241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
168341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1684b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1685b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1686b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1687b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1688b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1689b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1690b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1691692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1692b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1693b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1694b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1695b943c460SRandy Dunlap
169681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
169781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1698a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
169981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
170081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
170181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
170281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
170481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
170634013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
170702f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
170881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
170981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
171081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
171181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
171281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
171381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
171602f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
171702f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
171981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
172181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
172281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172337291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
172437291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
172537291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1729345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1730345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1731b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1732345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1733345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1734345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1735345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1736345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1737345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1738345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1739345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1740ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1741ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17426a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1743ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1744ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1745ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1746ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1747ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1748ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1749ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1750ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1751ea637639SJie Zhang
1752ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1753ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1754ea637639SJie Zhang
1755ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1756ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1757ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1758ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1759ea637639SJie Zhang
1760ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1761ea637639SJie Zhang
176282c04ff8SPeter Foleyconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
176382c04ff8SPeter Foley	bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
176482c04ff8SPeter Foley	depends on KEYS
176582c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
176682c04ff8SPeter Foley	  Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added.  Keys in
176782c04ff8SPeter Foley	  the keyring are considered to be trusted.  Keys may be added at will
176882c04ff8SPeter Foley	  by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
176982c04ff8SPeter Foley	  userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
177082c04ff8SPeter Foley	  keys already in the keyring.
177182c04ff8SPeter Foley
177282c04ff8SPeter Foley	  Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
177382c04ff8SPeter Foley
1774125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1775b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1776125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1777125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1778125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1779125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17805f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17815f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17825f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17835f87f112SIngo Molnar#
178497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
17855f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
178697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1787fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1788fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
17891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1791ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1792ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1793ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1794ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1795158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1796158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1797158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
17980f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1799158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1800158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1801ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18026341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1803ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
180966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
181111097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18300b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18310b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1832826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1833826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1834826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1835826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
183691e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
183791e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
183891e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1839826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1845f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1846f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
185019c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18590d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1879106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1880106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1881106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1882b56e5a17SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
188348ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
188448ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
188548ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
188648ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
188748ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
188848ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
188948ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
189048ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1891106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1892106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1893106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1894106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1895106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1896ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1901106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1902106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1903106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1904106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1905106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1906106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1908d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1909d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1910d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1911d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1912d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1913d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1914d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1915d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1916d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1917d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1918d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
195122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
195222753674SMichal Marek	string
195322753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
195422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
195522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
195622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
195722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
195822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
195922753674SMichal Marek
1960beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1961beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1965b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1966b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1968b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1970b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1971b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1973b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1974b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1975beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1976b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1977b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1978b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1983beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1985beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1988beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1990beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1991beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1993beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1994beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
19980b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
19990b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20006c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20016c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20026c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20036c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
200498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
200598a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
200698a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20075f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20085f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
200998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
201098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2011692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
201298a79d6aSRusty Russell
20131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
20193a65dfe8SJens Axboe
20203a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2021e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2022e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2023e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2024e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
202516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
202616295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
202716295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
202816295becSSteffen Klassert
2029754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2030754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2031754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
2032754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
2033754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
2034754b7b63SAndi Kleen
20354520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20364520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20374520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20384520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20394520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20404520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20414520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20424520c6a4SDavid Howells
20436beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2044