180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 28869369a70SJosh Triplett default y 28969369a70SJosh Triplett help 29069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29569369a70SJosh Triplett 2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 298804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 31567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 318939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 319939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32674c3cbe3SAl Viro 327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 42219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4242813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 466c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 467c903ff83SMike Travis 468c903ff83SMike Travischoice 469c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 47031c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 471c903ff83SMike Travis 472c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 473c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 474687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 475c903ff83SMike Travis help 476c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 477c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 478c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 479c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 480c903ff83SMike Travis 48128f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 482a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4839fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 485f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 486f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 488bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 489bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4919fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4929fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4958008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 5009b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 502c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 503c903ff83SMike Travis 50483fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 50583fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 50683fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 50783fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 50883fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 50983fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 51083fe27eaSPranith Kumar 5118315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 5128315f422SPaul E. McKenney bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch" 5138315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 51483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5158315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5168315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5178315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5188315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5198315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5208315f422SPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 5218315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5226bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 52328f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5246bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5256bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5266bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5276bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5286bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5296bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 53091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 53191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 53291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5332b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5342b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5372b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5382b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5392b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5402b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5412b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 542af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5432b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 544d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 54591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 546af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 547d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 548d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 549d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 55091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 55191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 55291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5541fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 567d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 568d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 569d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 57099c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 573d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 574d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 575d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 576d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 577c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 578c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 579c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 580c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 58128f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 582c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 583c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 584c903ff83SMike Travis help 585c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 586c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5874d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5884d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5894d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5904d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5914d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5924d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 593c903ff83SMike Travis 594c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 595c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 596c903ff83SMike Travis 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 60128f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6228932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6238932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 624c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 625c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 62628f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 627c903ff83SMike Travis default n 628c903ff83SMike Travis help 629c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 630c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 631c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 632c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 633c903ff83SMike Travis 634c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 635c903ff83SMike Travis 636c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 637c903ff83SMike Travis 6388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6403451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 643c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 644c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 645c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 646c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 647c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 648c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 649c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6508bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 651c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 652c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6548bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6558bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 656c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 65728f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 658c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 659c903ff83SMike Travis help 660f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 66128f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 662f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 663c903ff83SMike Travis 66424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 66627f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 67524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 67624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67721871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 67821871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 679a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 680a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 681a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 682a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68421871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 68521871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 68621871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 68721871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 68821871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 68921871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 69021871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 69121871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 692c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 693c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 694c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 695c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 696c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 69721871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 698c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 699c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 700c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 701c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 70221871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 703c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 70624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 70824278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 70924278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 71024278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 71124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 71224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 71324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 71424278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 71524278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 71624278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 71724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 71824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 71924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7203fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7219a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 72228f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 7233fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7243fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7253fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7283fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7293fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7303fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7313fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 732a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 733a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 734a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 735a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 736a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 737a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 738a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7393fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 74034ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7413fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7423fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 743911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 744911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 745911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7464568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 747911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 752911af505SPaul E. McKenney 753911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 757911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 765911af505SPaul E. McKenney 766911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 767911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 769676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 770676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 773676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 775911af505SPaul E. McKenney 776911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 777676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 778676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 779911af505SPaul E. McKenney 780911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 781911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 782911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 783911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 784676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 785676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 786676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 787676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 788676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 789676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 790911af505SPaul E. McKenney 791911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 792911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 793911af505SPaul E. McKenney 794911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 795911af505SPaul E. McKenney 796ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT 797ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney bool 798ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney default n 799ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney help 800ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time, 801ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot. 802ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from 803ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked 804ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before 805ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney init is exec'ed. 806ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 807ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 808ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 809c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 810c903ff83SMike Travis 811de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 812de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 813de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 814de5b56baSVivek Goyal 8151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 816f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 817de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 835794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 836794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 837794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 838f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 839361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 840794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 846f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 847f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 848f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 849f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 850f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 851794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 852794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 853794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8562240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 860361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 87523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 87623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 87723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 87823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 87923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 88023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 88123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 88223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 88323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 88423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 88523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 88623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 88723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 88823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 88923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 8905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 89638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 89738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 89838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 906be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 907be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 908be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 909be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 910be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 911be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9266d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9356f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9366f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 93823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9396341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9402bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 941*d59cfc09STejun Heo select PERCPU_RWSEM 942ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 94845ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 94945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 950ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 951ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 952ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 95423964d2dSLi Zefan 955006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 956006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 957418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 958006cb992SPaul Menage help 959006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 960006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 96123964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 962006cb992SPaul Menage 96323964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 964006cb992SPaul Menage 965dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 96623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 967dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 968dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 969dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 970dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 97108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 97208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 97308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 97408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 97508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 97608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 9771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 980d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98723964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 98823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 98923964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 99023964d2dSLi Zefan default y 99123964d2dSLi Zefan 992d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 993d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 994d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 995d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 99623964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 997d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 9983e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9993e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 10003e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 1001c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 100200f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 10033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 100479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 100500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 100684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 100721acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 100800f0b825SBalbir Singh 1009c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 101065e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 1011c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 1012c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 1013c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 1014c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 1015c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 1016c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 1017c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 1018c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 1019c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 1020c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 1021c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 1022c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 102300a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 1024627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 1025627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 1026c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 1027a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 1028c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 1029a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 1030a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 1031a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 1032a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 103343d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 103407555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 1035a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 1036a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1037a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 103800a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1039c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 104019c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 104119c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 1042510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 1043e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 1044e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 1045e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 1046e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 1047e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 1048e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 1049e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 1050c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 105371f87beeSJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 105471f87beeSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 10552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 10562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 10572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 10582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10652bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10662bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1067e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1068e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1069e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1070e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1071e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10722d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1073e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1074e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1075e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1076e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10777c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10787c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10797c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10807c941438SDhaval Giani help 10817c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10827c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10837c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10847c941438SDhaval Giani 10857c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10867c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10877c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10887c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10897c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10907c941438SDhaval Giani 1091ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1092ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1093ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1094ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1095ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1096ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1097ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1098ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1099ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1100ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1101ab84d31eSPaul Turner 11027c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 11037c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 11047c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11057c941438SDhaval Giani default n 11067c941438SDhaval Giani help 11077c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 110832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 11097c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 11107c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 11117c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 11127c941438SDhaval Giani 11137c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11147c941438SDhaval Giani 1115afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 111632e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 111779ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1118afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1120afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1121afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1122afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1123afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1126e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1127e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1128afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1130e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 113179e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 113279e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1133c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1134afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1135afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1136afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1137afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1138afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1139afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1140afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1141afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1142afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1143afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1144afc24d49SVivek Goyal 114523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1146c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1147067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1148067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1149067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1150067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1151067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1152067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1153067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1154067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1155067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1156067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1157067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11602813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11616a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1162c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1163c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1164c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1165c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1166c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1167c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 117058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 117158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 117217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 117358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 117458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 117558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 117658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1177ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1178ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 118017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1181ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1182ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1183614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1184ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1185aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 118619c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11875673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1188aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1189aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1190aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1191e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1192e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1193e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1194e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1195e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1196e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1197e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1198aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 120074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12019bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 120217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 120374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 120412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1205692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 120674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 120774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1208d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 121117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1212d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1213d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1214d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1215d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12185091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12195091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12205091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12215091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12225091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12235091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12245091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12255091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12265091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12275091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12285091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12295091faa4SMike Galbraith 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12315d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12545d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1295c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1296c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1297dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1298dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1299c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1300c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1301c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 130296fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1303c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 130431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 130531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1306c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13073a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1308c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13090847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13100847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13110847062aSRandy Dunlap 1312b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1313b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1314b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1315657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger 1318657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1320657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1321657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger 1323657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1325657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1326657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1327657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1328657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1329657a5209SMike Frysinger 1330657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1331657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1332657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1333657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1334657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1335657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1336657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1337657a5209SMike Frysinger 1338657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1339657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1340657a5209SMike Frysinger 1341f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1342f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1343f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1344f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13456a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1347f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1348f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1355ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13572813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1358ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1359ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1360ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1361ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13622813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13632813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13642813893fSIulia Manda default y 13652813893fSIulia Manda help 13662813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13672813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13682813893fSIulia Manda 13692813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13702813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13712813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13722813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13732813893fSIulia Manda 13742813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13752813893fSIulia Manda 1376f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1377f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1378f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1379f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1380f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1381f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1382f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1383f6187769SFabian Frederick 1384f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1385f6187769SFabian Frederick 13866af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13876af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13906af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13916af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13936af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13946af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1396b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 139826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1399c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1400b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1401b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 140213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 140313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 140413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 140513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1406b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 140713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 140813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 140913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1410b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1411c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1412ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 142571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 142671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 142771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 142871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 142971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 143171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 143271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 143371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 143471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 143671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1437d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1438d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1439d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 144174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1442d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1443d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1444d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1445d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1446d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1447d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1448d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1449c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1451c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1452c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1453c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1454c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1455c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1456c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1457c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1458c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1459708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1460046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1461708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1463708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1464708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1465708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14668761f1abSRalf Baechle 1467e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14698761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 147015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1471e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1472e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1473e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1474e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1475e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 148723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 149303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 149562b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 149603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 149703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 149803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 149903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 150003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1504448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1509fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1511448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1512fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1513fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1514fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1515fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1516fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1517fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1518fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1519b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1521448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1522b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1523b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1524b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1525b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1526b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1527b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1528b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1529e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1531448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1532e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1533e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1534e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1535e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1536e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1537e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1538e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1539f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1540f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1541e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1542f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1543f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1544f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1545f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1546f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1547f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1548f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 15491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1560ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1562ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1563ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1564ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1565ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1566ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1567ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1568d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1569d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1570d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1571d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1572d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1573d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1574d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1575d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1576d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1577d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1578657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1579657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1580657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1581657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1582657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1583657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1584657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1585657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1586657a5209SMike Frysinger 15876befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15895d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1596cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15970793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1598018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1599018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1601906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1602906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1603906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1604906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1605906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 160657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1608cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 160957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1610392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1611cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16124c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1613e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 161483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16150793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 161657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 161757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1619dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 162057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 162157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 162257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 162357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16240793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16250793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16280793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16290793a61dSThomas Gleixner 163057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1631dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 163257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16330793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16340793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16360793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1638906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1639906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1640906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1641906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1642906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1643906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1644906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1645906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1646906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1647906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1648906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1649906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1650906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16510793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1653f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1654f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1656f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16572aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16582aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16596a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1661f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 166241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 166341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1665f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 166641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 166741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 166841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 166941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 167041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 167141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1672b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1673b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1674b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1675b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1676b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1677b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1678b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1679692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1680b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1681b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1682b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1683b943c460SRandy Dunlap 168481819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 168581819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1686a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 168781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 168981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 169081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 169181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 169281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 169381819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 169434013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 169502f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 169681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 169781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 169881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 169981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 170081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 170181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 170281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 170402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 170502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 170681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 170781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17086a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 170981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 171081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 171237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 171337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 171681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1717345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1718345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1719b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1720345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1721345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1722345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1723345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1724345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1725345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1726345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1727345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1728ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1729ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17306a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1731ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1732ea637639SJie Zhang help 1733ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1734ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1735ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1736ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1737ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1738ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1739ea637639SJie Zhang 1740ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1741ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1742ea637639SJie Zhang 1743ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1744ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1745ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1746ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1747ea637639SJie Zhang 1748ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1749ea637639SJie Zhang 175082c04ff8SPeter Foleyconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 175182c04ff8SPeter Foley bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 175282c04ff8SPeter Foley depends on KEYS 175382c04ff8SPeter Foley help 175482c04ff8SPeter Foley Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 175582c04ff8SPeter Foley the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 175682c04ff8SPeter Foley by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 175782c04ff8SPeter Foley userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 175882c04ff8SPeter Foley keys already in the keyring. 175982c04ff8SPeter Foley 176082c04ff8SPeter Foley Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 176182c04ff8SPeter Foley 1762125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1763b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1764125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1765125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1766125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1767125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17685f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17695f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17705f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17715f87f112SIngo Molnar# 177297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17735f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 177497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1775fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1776fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 17771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1779ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1780ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1781ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1782ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1783158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1784158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1785158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 17860f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1787158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1788158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1789ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 17906341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1791ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 179766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 179911097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18180b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18190b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1820826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1821826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1822826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1823826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 182491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 182591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 182691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1827826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1833f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1834f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 183819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18470d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1867106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1868106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1869106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1870b56e5a17SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 187148ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 187248ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 187348ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 187448ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 187548ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 187648ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 187748ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 187848ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1879106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1880106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1881106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1882106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1883106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1885ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1886ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1887ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1888ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1889106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1890106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1891106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1892106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1893106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1894106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1895ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1896d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1897d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1898d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1899d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1900d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1901d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1902d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1903d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1904d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1905d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1906d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1908ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1915ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1918ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 193922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 194022753674SMichal Marek string 194122753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 194222753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 194322753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 194422753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 194522753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 194622753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 194722753674SMichal Marek 1948beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1949beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1950beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make 1953beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin modules_install' is run. 1954beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1955beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the 1956beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin choice made in "Compression algorithm". 1957beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1958beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip 1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin and xz compressed modules. 1960beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1961beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel 1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that 1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed. 1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside 1966beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole 1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin initrd or initramfs instead. 1968beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is 1970beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to 1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin other layer the uncompressed but signed payload. 1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1973beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1975beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1976beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1978beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1983beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1985beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1988beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1990beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 19910b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19920b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 199398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 199498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 199598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19965f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19975f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 199898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 199998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2000692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 200198a79d6aSRusty Russell 20021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 20083a65dfe8SJens Axboe 20093a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2010e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2011e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2012e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2013e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 201416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 201516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 201616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 201716295becSSteffen Klassert 2018754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2019754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2020754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 2021754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 2022754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 2023754b7b63SAndi Kleen 20244520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20254520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20264520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20274520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20284520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20294520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20304520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20314520c6a4SDavid Howells 20326beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2033