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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
31*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
32*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
33*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35*c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
36ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
48dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
49dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
5234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5584336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
5684336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5784336466SRoland McGrath	help
5884336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5984336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
6084336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
6184336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
6284336466SRoland McGrath
634bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
65bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
664bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
694bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
704bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
714bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
724bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
734bb16672SJiri Slaby
744bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
754bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
764bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
774bb16672SJiri Slaby
781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
88aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
89aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
91ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
96aaebf433SRyan Anderson
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
108aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1183ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1193ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1203ebe1243SLasse Collin
1217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
124e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
125e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
126e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1302d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1700a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1710a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1720a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1743ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1803ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1813ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1823ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1833ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1843ebe1243SLasse Collin
1853ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1863ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1873ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1883ebe1243SLasse Collin
1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1930a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
194681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2229361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
245a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
246a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
247a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
248a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
25319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
259b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
268bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
269bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
274226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
275226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
280a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
281226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
284f76be617SAndi Kleen	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
286f76be617SAndi Kleen	default y
287990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
289990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
29669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
29769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
298b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
29969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
30069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
30169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
30269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
30369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
30469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
30569369a70SJosh Triplett
3061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
308804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
312cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
313cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3157a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3167a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3177a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
319cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3207a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
322939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
323939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
324939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32874c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32963c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
33028a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
33174c3cbe3SAl Viro
332d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
333764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
334d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
335391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
337abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
339abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
34302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
348c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
351fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
358c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
371ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
372554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
387b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
388b58c3584SRik van Riel
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
391b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4022813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
42719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4292813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
44119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
443f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
45319c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
46219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
472c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
473c903ff83SMike Travis
474c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
475e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
476e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
477c903ff83SMike Travis	help
478c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
479c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
480c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
481c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
482c903ff83SMike Travis
48328f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
484e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
485e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if PREEMPT
486f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
488f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
489f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
490bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
491bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4939fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4949fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
496e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	bool
497e72aeafcSPranith Kumar	default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
5009b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
5029b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
5039b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT
50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	default n
50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	help
50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
51478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
51678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
51878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney
51983fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
52083fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
52183fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
52283fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
52383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
52583fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5268315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
52782d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney	bool
5288315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
529570dd3c7SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !UML
53083fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5318315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5328315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5338315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5348315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5358315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5366bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
53728f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5386bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5396bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5406bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5416bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5426bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5436bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
54491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
54591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
54691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
54791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
54891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
54991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5511fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
56799c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
568d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
569d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
570d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
573d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
574c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
575c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
576c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
577c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
57805c5df31SPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
579c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
580c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
581c903ff83SMike Travis	help
582c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
583c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5844d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5854d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5864d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5874d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5884d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5894d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
590c903ff83SMike Travis
591c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
592c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
593c903ff83SMike Travis
5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5968739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 64 if 64BIT
5978739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 32 if !64BIT
59847d631afSPaul E. McKenney	depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6218bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6228bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
62378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
6248bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6258bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
626c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
627c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
630c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
631c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
632c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
634c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
635c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
639c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
64028f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
641c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
642c903ff83SMike Travis	help
643f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
64428f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
645f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
646c903ff83SMike Travis
64724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
64978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
65924278d14SPaul E. McKenney
66021871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
66121871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
662a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
663a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
664a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
665a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
66626730f55SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT
66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66821871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
66921871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
67021871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
67121871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
67221871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
67321871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
67421871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
67521871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
680c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
68121871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
682c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
683c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
684c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
685c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
68621871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
687c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney
68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
69124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
69324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
69824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
69924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
70024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
70124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
70324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
7059a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
70628f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
707be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7113fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7123fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7133fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
717a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
718a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
719a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
720a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
721a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
722a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
723a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7243fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
72534ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
728911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
729911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
730911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7314568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
732911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
737911af505SPaul E. McKenney
738911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
739911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
740911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
741911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
742911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
750911af505SPaul E. McKenney
751911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
752911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
753911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
754676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
755676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
760911af505SPaul E. McKenney
761911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
764911af505SPaul E. McKenney
765911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
766911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
767911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
768911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
769676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
770676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
773676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
775911af505SPaul E. McKenney
776911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
777911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
778911af505SPaul E. McKenney
779911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
780911af505SPaul E. McKenney
781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	bool
783ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	default n
784ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	help
785ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
786ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
787ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
788ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
789ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
790ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  init is exec'ed.
791ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
792ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
793ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney
794c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
795c903ff83SMike Travis
796de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
797de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
798de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
799de5b56baSVivek Goyal
8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
801f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
802de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
820794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
821794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
822fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
824361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
825794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
82623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
831f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
832f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
833f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
834f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
835f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
836794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
837794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
838794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8412240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
845361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
8645e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
8655e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
875427934b8SPetr Mladekconfig NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
876427934b8SPetr Mladek	int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
877427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
878427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
879427934b8SPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK_NMI
880427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
881427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
882427934b8SPetr Mladek	  stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
883427934b8SPetr Mladek	  to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
884427934b8SPetr Mladek
885427934b8SPetr Mladek	  NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
886427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
887427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
888427934b8SPetr Mladek
889427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
890427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
891427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
892427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
893427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
894427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
895427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
896427934b8SPetr Mladek
8975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
9005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
9015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
9025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
90338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
90438ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
90538ff87f7SStephen Boyd
906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
913be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
91472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
91572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
91672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
91772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
91872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
91972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
92072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
92172b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
92272b252aeSMel Gorman
92372b252aeSMel Gorman#
924be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
925be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
926be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
927be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
928be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
942be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9436d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
946be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9476f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9486f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9496f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9506f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9516f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9526f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9536f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
95523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9566341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9572bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
958ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
95923964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
9649991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
96545ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
966ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
967ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
968ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
96923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
97023964d2dSLi Zefan
9713e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9723e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
9733e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
974c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9763e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
97779bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
97800f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
979a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
98000f0b825SBalbir Singh
981c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
982a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
983c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
984c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
985a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
986a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
987c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
988a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
989c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
990a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
991a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
992a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
993a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
99443d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
99507555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
996a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
997a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
998a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
99900a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1000c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
10042bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
10092bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1014e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10219991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
1035e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10367c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1037a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
10387c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10397c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10407c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10417c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10427c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10437c941438SDhaval Giani
10447c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10457c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10467c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10477c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10487c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10497c941438SDhaval Giani
1050ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1051ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1052ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1053ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1054ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1055ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1056ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1057ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1058ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1059ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1060ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10617c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10627c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10637c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10647c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10657c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10667c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
106732bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10687c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10697c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10707c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10717c941438SDhaval Giani
10727c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10737c941438SDhaval Giani
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10836cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
10866cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1096489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1097489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1098489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1099489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1100489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
11016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1105afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1126afc24d49SVivek Goyal
11276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
113089e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
113189e9b9e0STejun Heo
11326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11546bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Example controller"
11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
11576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  debugging information about the cgroups framework.
11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
116323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1164c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1165067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1166067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
11672e13ba54SIago López Galeiras	select PROC_CHILDREN
1168067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1169067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1170067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1171067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1172067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1173067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1174067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1175067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1176067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11792813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1181c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1182c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1183c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1184c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1185c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1186c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
118958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
119058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
119117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
119258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
119358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
119458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
119558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1196ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1197ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
119917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1200ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1201ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1202614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1203ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1204aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
120519c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
12065673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1207aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1208aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1209aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1210e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1211e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1212d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1213d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1214d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1215e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1216aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1217aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
121874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12199bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
122017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
122174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
122212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1223692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
122474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
122574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1226d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1227d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
122917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1230d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1231d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1232d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1233d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12358dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12365091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12385091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12395091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12405091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12415091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12425091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12435091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12445091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12455091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12465091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12475091faa4SMike Galbraith
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12495d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12725d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1308f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1309f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1310f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1311f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1312f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1313c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1314c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1315dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1316dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1317c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1318c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1319877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1320877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1321877417e6SArnd Bergmann	default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1322877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1323877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1324877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1325877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1326877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1327877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1328877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1330c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
133196fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1332c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
133331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
133431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1335c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13363a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1337c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1338877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1339877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13400847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13410847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13420847062aSRandy Dunlap
1343b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1344b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1345b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1346657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1347657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1348657a5209SMike Frysinger
1349657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1350657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1351657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1352657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1353657a5209SMike Frysinger
1354657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1355657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1356657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1357657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1358657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1359657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1360657a5209SMike Frysinger
1361657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1362657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1363657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1364657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1365657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1366657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1367657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1368657a5209SMike Frysinger
1369657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1370657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1371657a5209SMike Frysinger
1372f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1373f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1374f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1375f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13766a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13776a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1378f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1379f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1386ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13882813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1389ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1390ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1391ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1392ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13932813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13942813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13952813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13962813893fSIulia Manda	help
13972813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13982813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13992813893fSIulia Manda
14002813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14012813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14022813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14032813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14042813893fSIulia Manda
14052813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14062813893fSIulia Manda
1407f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1408f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1409f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1410f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1411f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1412f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1413f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1414f6187769SFabian Frederick
1415f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1416f6187769SFabian Frederick
14176af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14186af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
14206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
14216af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14226af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14236af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14246af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14256af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1427b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
14286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
142926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1430c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1431b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1432b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
143313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
143413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
143513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
143613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1437b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
143813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
143913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
144013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1441b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1442c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1443ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
14456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
145671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
145771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
145871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
145971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
146071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
146271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
146371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
146471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
146571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
146771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1468d59745ceSMatt Mackall
14694d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
14704d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	bool
1471076501ffSRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
14724d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel	default X86_64 && SMP
14734d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel
14742213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
14752213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	bool
14762213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	depends on KALLSYMS
14772213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
14782213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	help
14792213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
14802213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
14812213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
14822213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
14832213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
14842213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
14852213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  address encountered in the image.
14862213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
14872213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
14882213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
14892213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
14902213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
14912213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel
1492d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1493d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
149574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1496d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1497d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1498d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1499d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1500d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1501d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1502d59745ceSMatt Mackall
150342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
150442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
150542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
150642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
150742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1508c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1510c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1511c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1512c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1513c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1514c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1515c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1516c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1517c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1518708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1519046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1520708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1522708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1523708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1524708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15258761f1abSRalf Baechle
1526e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15288761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
152915f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1530e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1531e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1532e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1533e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1534e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
154623f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
155203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
155303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
155462b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
155503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
155603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
155703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
155803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
155903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1563448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1568fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1570448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1571fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1572fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1573fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1574fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1575fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1576fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1577fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1578b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1580448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1581b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1582b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1583b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1584b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1585b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1586b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1587b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1588e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1590448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1591e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1592e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1593e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1594e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1595e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1596e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1597e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1598f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1599f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1600e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1601f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1602f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1603f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1604f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1605f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1606f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1607f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
16081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1619ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1621ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1622ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1623ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1624ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1625ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1626ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1627d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1628d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1629d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1630d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1631d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1632d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1633d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1634d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1635d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1636d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1637a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD
1638a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1639a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	select ANON_INODES
1640a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
1641a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	help
1642a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1643a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli	  handle page faults in userland.
1644a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli
1645657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1646657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1647657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1648657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1649657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1650657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1651657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1652657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1653657a5209SMike Frysinger
16545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16666befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16685d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1675cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16760793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1677018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1678018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1680906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1681906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1682906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1683906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1684906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
168557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16860793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1687cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
168857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1689392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1690cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16914c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1692e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
169383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16940793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
169557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
169657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1698dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
169957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
170057c0c15bSIngo Molnar
170157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
170257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
17070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
170957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1710dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
171157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17120793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17130793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17140793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17150793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17160793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1717906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1720cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1721906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1722906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1723906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1724906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1725906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1726906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1727906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1728906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1729906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17300793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17310793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1732f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1733f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1735f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17362aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17372aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1740f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
174141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
174241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17436a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1744f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
174541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
174641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
174741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
174841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
174941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
175041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1751b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1752b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1753b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1754b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1755b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1756b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1757b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1758692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1759b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1760b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1761b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1762b943c460SRandy Dunlap
176381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
176481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1765a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
176681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
176781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
176881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
176981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
177081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
177104385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
177281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
177381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
177434013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
177502f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
177681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
177781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
177881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1779ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
178081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
178181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
178281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
178381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
178481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
178502f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
178602f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
178781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
178881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
179081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
179181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
179237291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
179337291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
179437291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
179581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
179681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
179781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1798c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1799c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1800210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1801c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1802c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1803210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1804c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1805c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1806c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
1807345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1808345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1809b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1810345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1811345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1812345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1813345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1814345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1815345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1816345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1817345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1818ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1819ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1821ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1822ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1823ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1824ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1825ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1826ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1827ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1828ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1829ea637639SJie Zhang
1830ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1831ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1832ea637639SJie Zhang
1833ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1834ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1835ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1836ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1837ea637639SJie Zhang
1838ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1839ea637639SJie Zhang
1840091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1841091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1842091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1843091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1844091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1845d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1846091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1847091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1848091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1849091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1850091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1851091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
185282c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1853091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1854091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1855091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1856091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
185782c04ff8SPeter Foley
1858125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1859b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1860125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1861125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1862125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1863125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18645f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18655f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18665f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18675f87f112SIngo Molnar#
186897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18695f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
187097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1871fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1872fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
18731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1875ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1876ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1877ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1878ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1879158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1880158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1881158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
18820f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1883158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1884158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1885ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18866341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1887ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
189366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
189511097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19140b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
19150b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1916826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1917826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1918826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1919826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
192091e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
192191e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
192291e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1923826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1929f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1930f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
193419c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19430d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1963106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1964106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1965106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1966091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1967106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1968106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1969106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1970106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1971106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1972228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1973228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1974228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1975228c37ffSDavid Howells
1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1981106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1982106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1983106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1984106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1985106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1986106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1988d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1989d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1990d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1991d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1992d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1993d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1994d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1995d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1996d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1997d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1998d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2009ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2010ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2011ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2012ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2013ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2014ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2015ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2016ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2017ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2019ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2020ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2021ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2022ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2024ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2028ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2029ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2030ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
203122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
203222753674SMichal Marek	string
203322753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
203422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
203522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
203622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
203722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
203822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
203922753674SMichal Marek
2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2044beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2045b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2046b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2047beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2048b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2049beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2050b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2051b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2052beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2053b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2054b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2055beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2056b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2057b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2058b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2064beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2065beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2066beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2067beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2068beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2069beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2070beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2071beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2072beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2073beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2074beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2075beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2076beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2077beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2078dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2079dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2080dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2081dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2082dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2083dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2084dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2085dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2086dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2087dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2088dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2089dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2090dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2091dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2092f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2093dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20940b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20950b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20966c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20976c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20986c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20996c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
210098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
210198a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
210298a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
21035f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
21045f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
210598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
210698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2107692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
210898a79d6aSRusty Russell
21093a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2110e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2111e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2112e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2113e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
211416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
211516295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
211616295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
211716295becSSteffen Klassert
2118754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2119754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2120754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
2121754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
2122754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
2123754b7b63SAndi Kleen
21244520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21254520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21264520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21274520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21284520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21294520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21304520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21314520c6a4SDavid Howells
21326beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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