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 275f76be617SAndi Kleen bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277f76be617SAndi Kleen default y 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28869369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 289b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 29069369a70SJosh Triplett help 29169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29669369a70SJosh Triplett 2971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 299804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 303cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 304cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3087a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 310cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3117a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 313939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 314939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 315939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 316939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 31974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32274c3cbe3SAl Viro 323d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 324764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 325d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 326391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 327391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 328abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 339c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 349c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 362ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 363554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 378*b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 379*b58c3584SRik van Riel 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 382*b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3932813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 41819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4202813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 434f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 463c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 464c903ff83SMike Travis 465c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 466e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 467e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 468c903ff83SMike Travis help 469c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 470c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 471c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 472c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 473c903ff83SMike Travis 47428f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 475e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 476e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if PREEMPT 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 478f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 481bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 482bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4849fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4859fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4869b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 487e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 488e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 49578cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT 49678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 49778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney default n 49878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney help 49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney obscure RCU options to be set up. 50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51083fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 51183fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 51283fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 51383fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 51483fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 51683fe27eaSPranith Kumar 5178315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 51882d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5198315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5218315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5228315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5248315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5258315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5266bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 52728f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5286bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5296bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5316bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5336bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 53791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 540d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5411fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 55799c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 563d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 564c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 565c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 566c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 567c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 56805c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 569c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 570c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 571c903ff83SMike Travis help 572c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 573c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5744d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5754d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5764d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5774d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 580c903ff83SMike Travis 581c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 582c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 583c903ff83SMike Travis 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5868739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 5878739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 58847d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6128bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 61378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 616c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 617c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 618c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 622c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6238bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 625c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 629c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 63028f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 631c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 632c903ff83SMike Travis help 633f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 63428f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 635f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 636c903ff83SMike Travis 63724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 63824278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 63978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65021871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 65121871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 652a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 653a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 654a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 655a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 65626730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 65821871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 65921871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 66021871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 66121871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 66221871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 66321871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 66421871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 66521871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 670c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 67121871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 67621871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6943fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6959a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 69628f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 697be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 707a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 708a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 709a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 713a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 71534ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 718911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 719911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 720911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7214568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 722911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 724676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 725676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 726676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 727911af505SPaul E. McKenney 728911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 729911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 730911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 732911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 739676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 740911af505SPaul E. McKenney 741911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 750911af505SPaul E. McKenney 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 753676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney 755911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 757911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 758911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 765911af505SPaul E. McKenney 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 767911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney 769911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney 771ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT 772ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney bool 773ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney default n 774ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney help 775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time, 776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot. 777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from 778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked 779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before 780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney init is exec'ed. 781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 784c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 785c903ff83SMike Travis 786de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 787de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 788de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 789de5b56baSVivek Goyal 7901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 791f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 792de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 810794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 811794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 812fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 813f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 814361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 815794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 82023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 821f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 822f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 825f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 826794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 827794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 828794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8312240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 83223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 83423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 835361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 865427934b8SPetr Mladekconfig NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 866427934b8SPetr Mladek int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 867427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 868427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 869427934b8SPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK_NMI 870427934b8SPetr Mladek help 871427934b8SPetr Mladek Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary 872427934b8SPetr Mladek stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context 873427934b8SPetr Mladek to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2. 874427934b8SPetr Mladek 875427934b8SPetr Mladek NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 876427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 877427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 878427934b8SPetr Mladek 879427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 880427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 881427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 882427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 883427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 884427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 885427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 886427934b8SPetr Mladek 8875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 89338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 89438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 89538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 903be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 90472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 90572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 90672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 90772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 90872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 90972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 91072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 91172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 91272b252aeSMel Gorman 91372b252aeSMel Gorman# 914be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 915be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 917be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 918be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9336d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 94523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9472bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 948ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 95445ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 95545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 956ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 957ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 958ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 96023964d2dSLi Zefan 9613e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9623e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9633e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 964c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 965a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 96800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 969a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 97000f0b825SBalbir Singh 971c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 972a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 973c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 974c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 976a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 977c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 978a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 979c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 980a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 981a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 982a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 983a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 98443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 98507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 986a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 987a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 988a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 98900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 990c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9942bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9992bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1004e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1025e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10267c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1027a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10287c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10297c941438SDhaval Giani help 10307c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10317c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10327c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10337c941438SDhaval Giani 10347c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10357c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10367c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10377c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10387c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10397c941438SDhaval Giani 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1043ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1044ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1045ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1046ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1047ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1048ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1050ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10517c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10527c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10537c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10547c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10557c941438SDhaval Giani help 10567c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 105732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10587c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10597c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10607c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10617c941438SDhaval Giani 10627c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10637c941438SDhaval Giani 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10736cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 10766cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1086489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1087489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1088489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1095afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1106afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1114afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 112089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112189e9b9e0STejun Heo 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1154c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1155067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 11572e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1158067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1159067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1160067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1161067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1162067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1163067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1164067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1165067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1166067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11692813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11706a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1171c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1172c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1173c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1174c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1175c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1176c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 117958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 118058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 118117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 118258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 118358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 118458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 118558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1186ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1187ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 118917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1190ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1191ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1192614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1193ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1194aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 119519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11965673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1197aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1198aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1200e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1201e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1202d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1203d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1204d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1205e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1206aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1207aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 120874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12099bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 121017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 121174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 121212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1213692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 121474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 121574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1216d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1217d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 121917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1220d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1221d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1222d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1223d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12258dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12265091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12275091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12285091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12295091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12305091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12315091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12325091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12335091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12345091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12355091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12365091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12375091faa4SMike Galbraith 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12395d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12625d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1303c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1304c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1305dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1306dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1307c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1308c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1309877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1310877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1311877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1312877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1313877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1314877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1315877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1316877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1317877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1318877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1319877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1320c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 132196fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1322c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 132331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 132431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1325c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13263a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1327c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1328877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13300847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13310847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13320847062aSRandy Dunlap 1333b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1334b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1335b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1336657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1337657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1338657a5209SMike Frysinger 1339657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1340657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1341657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1342657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1343657a5209SMike Frysinger 1344657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1345657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1346657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1347657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1348657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1349657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1350657a5209SMike Frysinger 1351657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1352657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1353657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1354657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1355657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1356657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1357657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1358657a5209SMike Frysinger 1359657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1360657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1361657a5209SMike Frysinger 1362f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1363f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1364f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1365f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13666a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1368f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1369f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1376ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13782813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1379ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1380ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1381ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1382ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13832813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13842813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13852813893fSIulia Manda default y 13862813893fSIulia Manda help 13872813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13882813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13892813893fSIulia Manda 13902813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13912813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13922813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13932813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13942813893fSIulia Manda 13952813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13962813893fSIulia Manda 1397f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1398f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1399f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1400f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1401f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1402f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1403f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1404f6187769SFabian Frederick 1405f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1406f6187769SFabian Frederick 14076af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14096af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 14106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 14116af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14156af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1417b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 141926a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1420c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1421b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1422b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 142313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 142413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 142513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 142613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1427b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 142813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 142913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 143013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1431b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1432c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1433ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 14356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 144671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 144771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 144871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 144971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 145071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 145271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 145371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 145471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 145571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 145771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1458d59745ceSMatt Mackall 14594d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 14604d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1461076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 14624d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 14634d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 14642213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 14652213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 14662213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 14672213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 14682213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 14692213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 14702213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 14712213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 14722213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 14732213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 14742213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 14752213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 14762213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 14772213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 14782213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 14792213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 14802213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 14812213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1482d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1483d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 148574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1486d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1487d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1488d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1489d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1490d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1491d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1492d59745ceSMatt Mackall 149342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 149442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 149542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 149642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 149742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1498c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1500c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1501c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1502c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1503c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1504c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1505c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1506c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1507c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1508708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1509046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1510708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1512708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1513708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1514708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15158761f1abSRalf Baechle 1516e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15188761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 151915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1520e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1521e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1522e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1523e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1524e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 153623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 154203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 154303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 154462b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 154503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 154703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 154803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 154903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1553448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1558fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1560448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1561fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1562fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1563fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1564fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1565fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1566fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1567fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1568b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1570448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1571b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1572b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1573b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1574b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1575b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1576b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1577b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1578e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1580448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1581e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1582e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1583e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1584e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1585e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1586e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1587e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1588f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1589f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1590e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1591f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1592f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1593f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1594f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1595f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1596f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1597f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 15981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1609ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1611ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1612ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1613ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1614ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1615ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1616ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1617d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1618d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1619d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1620d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1621d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1622d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1623d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1624d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1625d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1626d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1627a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1628a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1629a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1630a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1631a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1632a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1633a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1634a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1635657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1636657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1637657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1638657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1639657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1640657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1641657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1642657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1643657a5209SMike Frysinger 16445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16566befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16585d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16616befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16626befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16646befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1665cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16660793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1667018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1668018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1670906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1671906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1672906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1674906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 167557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16760793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1677cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 167857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1679392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1680cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16814c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1682e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 168383fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16840793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 168557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 168657c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16870793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1688dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 168957c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 169057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 169157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 169257c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16930793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16940793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16950793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 169957c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1700dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 170157c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17020793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1707906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1708906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1709906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1710cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1711906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1712906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1713906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1715906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1716906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1717906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17200793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17210793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1722f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1723f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1725f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17262aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17272aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17286a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1730f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 173141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 173241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1734f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 173541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 173641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 173741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 173841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 173941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 174041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1741b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1742b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1743b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1744b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1745b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1746b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1747b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1748692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1749b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1750b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1751b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1752b943c460SRandy Dunlap 175381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 175481819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1755a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 175681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 175781819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 175881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 175981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 176081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 176181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 176281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 176334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 176402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 176581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 176681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 176781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 176881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 176981819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 177081819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 177181819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 177281819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 177302f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 177402f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 177581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 177681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17776a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 177881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 177981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 178037291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 178137291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 178237291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 178381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 178481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 178581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1786c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1787c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1788c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB 1789c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1790c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1791c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new SLABs. This 1792c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1793c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1794c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 1795345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1796345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1797b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1798345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1799345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1800345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1801345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1802345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1803345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1804345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1805345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1806ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1807ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18086a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1809ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1810ea637639SJie Zhang help 1811ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1812ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1813ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1814ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1815ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1816ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1817ea637639SJie Zhang 1818ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1819ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1820ea637639SJie Zhang 1821ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1822ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1823ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1824ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1825ea637639SJie Zhang 1826ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1827ea637639SJie Zhang 1828091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1829091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1830091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1831091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1832091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1833d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1834091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1835091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1836091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1837091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1838091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1839091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 184082c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1841091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1842091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1843091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1844091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 184582c04ff8SPeter Foley 1846125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1847b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1848125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1849125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1850125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1851125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18535f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18545f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18555f87f112SIngo Molnar# 185697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18575f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 185897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1859fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1860fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 18611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1863ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1864ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1865ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1866ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1867158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1868158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1869158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 18700f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1871158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1872158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1873ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18746341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1875ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 188166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 188311097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19020b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19030b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1904826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1905826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1906826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1907826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 190891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 190991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 191091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1911826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1917f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1918f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 192219c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19310d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1951106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1952106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1953106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1954091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1955106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1956106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1957106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1958106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1959106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1960228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1961228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1962228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1963228c37ffSDavid Howells 1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1969106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1970106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1971106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1972106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1973106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1974106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1976d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1977d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1978d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1979d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1980d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1981d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1982d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1983d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1984d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1985d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1986d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2009ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2010ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2011ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2012ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2013ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2014ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2015ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2016ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2017ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 201922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 202022753674SMichal Marek string 202122753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 202222753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 202322753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 202422753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 202522753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 202622753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 202722753674SMichal Marek 2028beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2031beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2032beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2033b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2034b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2036b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2038b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2039b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2041b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2042b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2044b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2045b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2046b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2047beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2048beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2049beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2050beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2052beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2053beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2054beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2055beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2056beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2057beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2058beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2064beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2065beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2066dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2067dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2068dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2069dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2070dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2071dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2072dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2073dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2074dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2075dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2076dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2077dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2078dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2079dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2080dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre If unsure say N. 2081dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 20820b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20830b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20846c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20856c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20866c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20876c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 208898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 208998a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 209098a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20915f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20925f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 209398a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 209498a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2095692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 209698a79d6aSRusty Russell 20973a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2098e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2099e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2100e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2101e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 210216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 210316295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 210416295becSSteffen Klassert bool 210516295becSSteffen Klassert 2106754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2107754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2108754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 2109754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 2110754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 2111754b7b63SAndi Kleen 21124520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21134520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21144520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21154520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21164520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21174520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21184520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21194520c6a4SDavid Howells 21206beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2121