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" 2133