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 29c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 31c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 32c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 36c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 39ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 51dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 52dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 5984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 6084336466SRoland McGrath help 6184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 6284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 6384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 6484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 6584336466SRoland McGrath 664bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 674bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 694bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 704bb16672SJiri Slaby help 714bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 724bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 734bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 744bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 754bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 764bb16672SJiri Slaby 774bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 784bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 794bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 804bb16672SJiri Slaby 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 94ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1213ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1223ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1233ebe1243SLasse Collin 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 129e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1332d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1773ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1960a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 222bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2259361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 251a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 252a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 253a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 25619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 274bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 275bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 280226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 281226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 285226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 287f76be617SAndi Kleen bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 289f76be617SAndi Kleen default y 290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 29969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 30069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 301b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 30269369a70SJosh Triplett help 30369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 30469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 30569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 30669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 30769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 30869369a70SJosh Triplett 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 311804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 315cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 316cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3187a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3197a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3207a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 322cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3237a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 326939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 327939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33474c3cbe3SAl Viro 335d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 336764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 337d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 34602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 351c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 361c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 374ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 375554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 390b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 391b58c3584SRik van Riel 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 394b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4052813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 43019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4322813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 446f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 45619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 46519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 476c903ff83SMike Travis 477c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 478e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 479e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 480c903ff83SMike Travis help 481c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 482c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 483c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 484c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 485c903ff83SMike Travis 48628f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 487e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 488e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if PREEMPT 489f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 491f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 493bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 494bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 495f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4969fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4979fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 499e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 500e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 5029b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 5039b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 5049b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 5059b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 5069b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT 50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney default n 51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney help 51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 51478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 51578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 51678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney obscure RCU options to be set up. 51778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 51978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 52078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 52178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 52283fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 52383fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 52583fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 52683fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 52783fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 52883fe27eaSPranith Kumar 529*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_SRCU 530*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney bool 531*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney default y if TINY_RCU 532*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney help 533*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU. 534*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney 535*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_SRCU 536*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney bool 537*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney default y if !TINY_RCU 538*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney help 539*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. 540*d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney 5418315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 54282d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5438315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 54483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5458315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5468315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5478315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5488315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5498315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5506bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 55128f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5526bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5536bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5546bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5556bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5566bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5576bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 55891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 55991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 56091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 56191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 56291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 56391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5651fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 567d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 568d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 569d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 570d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 573d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 574d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 575d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 576d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 577d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 578d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 579d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 580d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 58199c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 582d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 583d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 584d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 585d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 586d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 587d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 588c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 589c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 590c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 591c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 59205c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 593c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 594c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 595c903ff83SMike Travis help 596c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 597c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5984d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5994d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 6004d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 6014d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 6024d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 6034d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 604c903ff83SMike Travis 605c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 606c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 607c903ff83SMike Travis 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 6108739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 6118739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 61247d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6228932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6238932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6248932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6258932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6268932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6278932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6288932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6298932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6308932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6318932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6328932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6338932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6348932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6358bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 63778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 640c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 641c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 642c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 643c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 644c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 645c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 646c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6478bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 648c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 649c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6508bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 653c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 65428f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 655c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 656c903ff83SMike Travis help 657f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 65828f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 659f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 660c903ff83SMike Travis 66124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 66224278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 66378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 66424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67421871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 67521871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 676a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 677a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 678a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 679a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 68026730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68221871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 68321871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 68421871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 68521871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 68621871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 68721871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 68821871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 68921871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 690c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 691c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 692c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 693c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 694c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 69521871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 696c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 697c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 698c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 699c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 70021871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 701c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 70624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 70724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 70824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 70924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 71024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 71124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 71224278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 71324278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 71424278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 71524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 71624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 71724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7199a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 72028f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 721be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 7223fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7233fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7243fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7253fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7283fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7293fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7303fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 731a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 732a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 733a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 734a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 735a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 736a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 737a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7383fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 73934ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7403fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7413fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 742911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 744911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7454568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 746911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney 752911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 764911af505SPaul E. McKenney 765911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 767911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 769676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 770676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 773676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 774911af505SPaul E. McKenney 775911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 776676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 777676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 778911af505SPaul E. McKenney 779911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 780911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 781911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 782911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 783676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 784676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 785676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 786676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 787676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 788676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 789911af505SPaul E. McKenney 790911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 791911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 792911af505SPaul E. McKenney 793911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 794911af505SPaul E. McKenney 795c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 796c903ff83SMike Travis 797de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 798de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 799de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 800de5b56baSVivek Goyal 8011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 802f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 803de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 822794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 823fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 825361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 826794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 83123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 832f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 833f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 834f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 835f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 836f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 837794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 838794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 839794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8422240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 846361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8655e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8665e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 87523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 876f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 877f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 878427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 879427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 880f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 881427934b8SPetr Mladek help 882f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 883f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 884f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 885f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 886f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 887427934b8SPetr Mladek 888f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 889427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 890427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 891427934b8SPetr Mladek 892427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 893427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 894427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 895427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 896427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 897427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 898427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 899427934b8SPetr Mladek 9005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 9015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 9025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 9035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 9045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 9055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 90638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 90738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 90838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 91772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 91872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 91972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 92072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 92172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 92272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 92372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 92472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 92572b252aeSMel Gorman 92672b252aeSMel Gorman# 927be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 928be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 929be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 930be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 931be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 942be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9466d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9506f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9516f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9526f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9536f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 95823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9596341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9602bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 961ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 96223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 9679991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 96845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 969ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 970ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 971ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 97223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 97323964d2dSLi Zefan 9743e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9753e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9763e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 977c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 978a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9793e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 98079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 98100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 982a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 98300f0b825SBalbir Singh 984c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 985a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 986c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 987c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 988a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 989a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 990c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 991a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 992c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 993a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 994a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 995a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 996a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 99743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 99807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 999a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 1000a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1001a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 100200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1003c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10072bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10122bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1017e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10249991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1038e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10397c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1040a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10417c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10427c941438SDhaval Giani help 10437c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10447c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10457c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10467c941438SDhaval Giani 10477c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10487c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10497c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10507c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10517c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10527c941438SDhaval Giani 1053ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1054ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1055ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1056ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1057ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1058ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1059ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1060ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1061ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1062ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1063ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10647c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10657c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10667c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10677c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10687c941438SDhaval Giani help 10697c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 107032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10717c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10727c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10737c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10747c941438SDhaval Giani 10757c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10767c941438SDhaval Giani 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10866cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 10896cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 109339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 109439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 109539d3e758SParav Pandit help 109639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 109739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 109839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 109939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 110039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 110139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 110239d3e758SParav Pandit 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1109489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1110489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1111489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1112489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1113489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1118afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1137afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1139afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 114389e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 114489e9b9e0STejun Heo 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 116730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 116830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1169483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1170483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 117130070984SDaniel Mack help 117230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 117330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 117430070984SDaniel Mack 117530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 117630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 117730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 117830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 117930070984SDaniel Mack 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 118973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 119073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 119173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119273b35147SArnd Bergmann 119323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1194c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1195067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1196067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 11972e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1198067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1199067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1200067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1201067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1202067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1203067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1204067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1205067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1206067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 12078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12092813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12106a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1211c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1212c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1213c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1214c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1215c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1216c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 121958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 122058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 122117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 122258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 122358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 122458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 122558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1226ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1227ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 122917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1230ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1231ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1232614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1233ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1234aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 123519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12365673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1237aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1238aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1239aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1240e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1241e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1242d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1243d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1244d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1245e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1246aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1247aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 124874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12499bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 125017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 125174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 125212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1253692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 125474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 125574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1256d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1257d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 125917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1260d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1261d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1262d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1263d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12665091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12675091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12685091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12695091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12705091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12715091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12725091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12735091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12745091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12755091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12765091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12775091faa4SMike Galbraith 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12795d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13025d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 131826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13267af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13277af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1328f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1329f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1330f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1331f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1332f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1333f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1334f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1335f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13368c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1337f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1338f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1339f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1340f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1341f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1342f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1343f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1344c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1345c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1346dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1347dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1348c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1349c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1350877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1351877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1352877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1353877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1354877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1355877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1356877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1357877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1358877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1359877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1360877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1361c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 136296fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1363c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 136431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 136531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1366c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13673a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1368c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1369877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1370877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13710847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13720847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13730847062aSRandy Dunlap 1374b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1375b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1376b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1377657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1378657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1379657a5209SMike Frysinger 1380657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1381657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1382657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1383657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1384657a5209SMike Frysinger 1385657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1386657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1387657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1388657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1389657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1390657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1391657a5209SMike Frysinger 1392657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1393657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1394657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1395657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1396657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1397657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1398657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1399657a5209SMike Frysinger 1400657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1401657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1402657a5209SMike Frysinger 1403f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1404f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1405f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1406f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14076a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1409f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1410f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1417ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14192813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1420ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1421ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1422ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1423ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14242813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14252813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14262813893fSIulia Manda default y 14272813893fSIulia Manda help 14282813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14292813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14302813893fSIulia Manda 14312813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14322813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14332813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14342813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14352813893fSIulia Manda 14362813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14372813893fSIulia Manda 1438f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1439f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1440f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1441f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1442f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1443f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1444f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1445f6187769SFabian Frederick 1446f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1447f6187769SFabian Frederick 14486af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14506af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 14516af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 14526af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14536af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14546af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14556af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14566af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1458b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 14596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 146026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1461c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1462b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1463b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 146413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 146513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 146613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 146713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1468b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 146913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 147013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 147113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1472b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1473c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1474ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1475baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1476baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1477baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1478baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1479baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1480baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1481baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1482baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1483baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1484baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1485baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1486baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1487baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1488baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1489baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1490baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1491baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 14921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 14936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 150471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 150571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 150671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 150771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 150871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 151071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 151171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 151271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 151371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 151571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1516d59745ceSMatt Mackall 15174d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 15184d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1519076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 15204d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 15214d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 15222213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 15232213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 15242213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 15252213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 15262213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 15272213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 15282213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 15292213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 15302213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 15312213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 15322213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 15332213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 15342213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 15352213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 15362213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 15372213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 15382213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 15392213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1540d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1541d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 154374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1544d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1545d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1546d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1547d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1548d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1549d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1550d59745ceSMatt Mackall 155142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 155242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 155342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 155442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 155542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1556c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1558c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1559c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1560c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1561c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1562c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1563c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1564c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1565c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1566708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1567046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1568708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1570708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1571708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1572708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15738761f1abSRalf Baechle 1574e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15768761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 157715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1578e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1579e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1580e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1581e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1582e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 159423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 160003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 160103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 160262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 160303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 160403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 160503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 160603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 160703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 16081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1611448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1616fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1618448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1619fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1620fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1621fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1622fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1623fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1624fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1625fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1626b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1628448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1629b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1630b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1631b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1632b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1633b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1634b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1635b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1636e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1638448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1639e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1640e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1641e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1642e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1643e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1644e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1645e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1646f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1647f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1648e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1649f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1650f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1651f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1652f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1653f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1654f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1655f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 16561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1667ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1669ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1670ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1671ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1672ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1673ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1674ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1675d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1676d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1677d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1678d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1679d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1680d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1681d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1682d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1683d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1684d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1685a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1686a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1687a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1688a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1689a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1690a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1691a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1692a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1693657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1694657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1695657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1696657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1697657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1698657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1699657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1700657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1701657a5209SMike Frysinger 17025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17125b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17135b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17146befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17156befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17165d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17176befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17186befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17196befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17206befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17216befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17226befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1723cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17240793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1725018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1726018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1728906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1729906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1730906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1731906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1732906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1733ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1734ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" 1735ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1736ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1737ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1738ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1739ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 174057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17410793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1742cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 174357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1744392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1745cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17464c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1747e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 174883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17490793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 175057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 175157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1753dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 175457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 175557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 175657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 175757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17580793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17590793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17600793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17610793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17620793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17630793a61dSThomas Gleixner 176457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1765dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 176657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17670793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17680793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17700793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17710793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1772906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1773906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1774906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1775cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1776906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1777906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1778906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1779906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1780906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1781906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1782906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1783906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1784906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17850793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1787f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1788f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1790f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17912aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17922aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17936a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17942aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1795f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 179641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 179741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1799f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 180041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 180141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 180241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 180341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 180441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 180541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 18061663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 18071663f26dSTejun Heo default n 18081663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 18091663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 18101663f26dSTejun Heo help 18111663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 18121663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 18131663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 18141663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 18151663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 18161663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 18171663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 18181663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 18191663f26dSTejun Heo 1820b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1821b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1822b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1823b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1824b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1825b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1826b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1827692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1828b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1829b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1830b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1831b943c460SRandy Dunlap 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1834a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 183781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 183981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 184004385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 184181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 184334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 184402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 184581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 184681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 184781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1848ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 184981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 185081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 185181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 185281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 185381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 185402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 185502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 185681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 185781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18586a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 185981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 186081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 186137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 186237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 186337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 186481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 186581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 186681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1867c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1868c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1869210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1870c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1871c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1872210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1873c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1874c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1875c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 1876345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1877345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1878b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1879345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1880345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1881345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1882345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1883345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1884345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1885345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1886345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1887ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1888ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18896a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1890ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1891ea637639SJie Zhang help 1892ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1893ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1894ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1895ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1896ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1897ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1898ea637639SJie Zhang 1899ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1900ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1901ea637639SJie Zhang 1902ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1903ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1904ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1905ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1906ea637639SJie Zhang 1907ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1908ea637639SJie Zhang 1909091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1910091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1911091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1912091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1913091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1914d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1915091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1916091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1917091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1918091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1919091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1920091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 192182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1922091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1923091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1924091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 192682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1927125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1928b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1929125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1930125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1931125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1932125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19335f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19345f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19355f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19365f87f112SIngo Molnar# 193797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19385f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 193997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1940fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1941fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 19421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1944ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1945ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1946ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1947ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1948158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1949158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1950158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 19510f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1952158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1953158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1954ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19556341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1956ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 196266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 196411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19830b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19840b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1985826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1986826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1987826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1988826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 198991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 199091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 199191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1992826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1998f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1999f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 200319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20120d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 202156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 202256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 202356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 202456067812SArd Biesheuvel 20251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2036106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2037106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2038106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 2039091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2040106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2041106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2042106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2043106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 2044106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2045228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2046228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2047228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2048228c37ffSDavid Howells 2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2050ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2051ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2052ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2053ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2054106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2055106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2056106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2058106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2061d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2062d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2063d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2064d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2065d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2066d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2067d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2068d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2069d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2070d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2071d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2078ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2079ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2080ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2081ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2082ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2083ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2085ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2086ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2087ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2088ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2089ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2090ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2091ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 210422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 210522753674SMichal Marek string 210622753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 210722753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 210822753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 210922753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 211022753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 211122753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 211222753674SMichal Marek 2113beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2114beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2115beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2117beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2118b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2119b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2120beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2121b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2123b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2124b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2125beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2126b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2127b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2128beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2129b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2130b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2131b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2132beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2133beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2141beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2144beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2147beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2150beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2151dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2152dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2153dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2154dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2155dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2156dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2157dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2158dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2159dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2160dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2161dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2162dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2163dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2164dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2165f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2166dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21670b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 21680b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 21696c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 21706c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 21716c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 21726c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 217398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 217498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 217598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21765f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21775f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 217898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 217998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2180692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 218198a79d6aSRusty Russell 21823a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2183e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2184e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2185e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2186e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 218716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 218816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 218916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 219016295becSSteffen Klassert 21914520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21924520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21934520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21944520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21954520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21964520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21974520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21984520c6a4SDavid Howells 21996beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2200