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*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_SRCU 530*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney bool "Use v4.11 classic SRCU implementation" 531*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney default n 532*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT && SRCU 533*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney help 534*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the traditional well-tested classic SRCU 535*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney implementation from v4.11, as might be desired for enterprise 536*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney Linux distributions. Without this option, the shiny new 537*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU implementations are used instead. 538*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney At some point, it is hoped that Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU 539*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney will accumulate enough test time and confidence to allow 540*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney Classic SRCU to be dropped entirely. 541*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney 542*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need a rock-solid SRCU. 543*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney 544*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney Say N if you would like help test Tree SRCU. 545*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney 546d8be8173SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_SRCU 547d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney bool 548*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney default y if TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU 549d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney help 550d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU. 551d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney 552d8be8173SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_SRCU 553d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney bool 554*dad81a20SPaul E. McKenney default y if !TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU 555d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney help 556d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. 557d8be8173SPaul E. McKenney 5588315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 55982d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5608315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 56183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5628315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5638315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5648315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5658315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5668315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5676bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 56828f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5696bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5706bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5716bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5726bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5736bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5746bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 57591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 57691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 57791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 57891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 57991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 58091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 581d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5821fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 583d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 584d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 585d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 586d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 587d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 588d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 589d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 590d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 591d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 592d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 593d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 594d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 595d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 596d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 597d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 59899c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 599d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 600d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 601d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 602d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 603d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 604d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 605c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 606c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 607c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 608c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 60905c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 610c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 611c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 612c903ff83SMike Travis help 613c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 614c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 6154d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 6164d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 6174d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 6184d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 6194d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 6204d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 621c903ff83SMike Travis 622c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 623c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 624c903ff83SMike Travis 6258932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 6268932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 6278739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 6288739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 62947d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 6308932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 6318932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 6328932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 6338932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 6348932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 6358932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 6368932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6378932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6388932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6398932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6408932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6418932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6428932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6438932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6448932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6458932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6468932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6478932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6488932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6498932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6508932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6518932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 65478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6558bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6568bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 657c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 658c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 659c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 660c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 661c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 662c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 663c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6648bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 665c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 666c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6678bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6688bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6698bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 670c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 67128f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 672c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 673c903ff83SMike Travis help 674f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 67528f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 676f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 677c903ff83SMike Travis 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 68078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69121871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 69221871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 693a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 694a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 695a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 696a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 69726730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 69824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 69921871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 70021871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 70121871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 70221871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 70321871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 70421871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 70521871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 70621871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 707c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 708c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 709c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 710c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 711c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 71221871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 713c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 714c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 715c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 716c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 71721871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 718c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 71924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 72024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 72124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 72224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 72324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 72424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 72524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 72624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 72724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 72824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 72924278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 73024278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 73124278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 73224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 73324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 73424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7353fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7369a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 73728f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 738be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 7393fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7403fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7413fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7423fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7433fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7443fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7453fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7463fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7473fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 748a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 749a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 750a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 751a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 752a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 753a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 754a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7553fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 75634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7573fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7583fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 759911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 760911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 761911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7624568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 763911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 766676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney 769911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 771911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 772911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 773911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 775676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 776676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 777676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 778676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 779676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 780676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 781911af505SPaul E. McKenney 782911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 783911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 784911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 785676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 786676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 787676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 788676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 789676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 790676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 791911af505SPaul E. McKenney 792911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 793676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 794676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 795911af505SPaul E. McKenney 796911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 797911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 798911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 799911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 800676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 801676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 802676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 803676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 804676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 805676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 806911af505SPaul E. McKenney 807911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 808911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 809911af505SPaul E. McKenney 810911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 811911af505SPaul E. McKenney 812c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 813c903ff83SMike Travis 814de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 815de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 816de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 817de5b56baSVivek Goyal 8181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 819f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 820de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 838794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 839794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 840fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 841f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 842361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 843794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 849f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 850f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 851f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 852f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 853f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 854794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 855794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 856794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8592240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 863361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 87523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 87623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 87723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 87823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 87923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 88023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 88123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8825e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8835e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 88423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 88523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 88623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 88723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 88823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 88923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 89023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 89123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 89223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 893f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 894f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 895427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 896427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 897f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 898427934b8SPetr Mladek help 899f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 900f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 901f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 902f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 903f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 904427934b8SPetr Mladek 905f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 906427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 907427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 908427934b8SPetr Mladek 909427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 910427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 911427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 912427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 913427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 914427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 915427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 916427934b8SPetr Mladek 9175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 9185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 9195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 9205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 9215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 9225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 92338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 92438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 92538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 933be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 93472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 93572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 93672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 93772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 93872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 93972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 94072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 94172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 94272b252aeSMel Gorman 94372b252aeSMel Gorman# 944be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 945be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 946be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 947be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 948be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 950be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 951be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 952be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 953be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 954be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 955be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 956be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 957be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 958be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 959be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 960be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 961be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 962be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9636d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 964be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 965be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 966be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9676f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9686f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9696f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9706f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9716f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9726f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9736f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9746f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 97523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9766341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9772bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 978ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 97923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 9849991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 98545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 986ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 987ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 988ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 98923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 99023964d2dSLi Zefan 9913e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9923e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9933e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 994c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 995a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9963e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 999a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 100000f0b825SBalbir Singh 1001c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 1002a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 1003c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 1004c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 1005a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 1006a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 1007c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 1008a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 1009c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 1010a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 1011a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 1012a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 1013a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 101443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 101507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 1016a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 1017a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1018a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 101900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1020c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10292bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1034e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10419991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1055e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10567c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1057a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10587c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10597c941438SDhaval Giani help 10607c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10617c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10627c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10637c941438SDhaval Giani 10647c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10657c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10667c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10677c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10687c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10697c941438SDhaval Giani 1070ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1071ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1072ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1073ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1074ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1075ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1076ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1077ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1078ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1079ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1080ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10817c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10827c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10837c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10847c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10857c941438SDhaval Giani help 10867c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 108732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10887c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10897c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10907c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10917c941438SDhaval Giani 10927c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10937c941438SDhaval Giani 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11036cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 11066cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 111039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 111139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 111239d3e758SParav Pandit help 111339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 111439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 111539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 111639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 111739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 111839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 111939d3e758SParav Pandit 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1126489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1127489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1128489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1129489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1130489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1135afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1146afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1154afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1156afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 116089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 116189e9b9e0STejun Heo 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 118430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 118530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1186483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1187483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 118830070984SDaniel Mack help 118930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 119030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 119130070984SDaniel Mack 119230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 119330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 119430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 119530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 119630070984SDaniel Mack 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 12036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 120673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 120773b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 120873b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 120973b35147SArnd Bergmann 121023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1211c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1212067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1213067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 12142e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1215067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1216067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1217067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1218067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1219067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1220067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1221067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1222067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1223067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 12248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12262813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12276a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1228c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1229c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1230c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1231c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1232c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1233c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12358dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 123658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 123758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 123817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 123958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 124058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 124158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 124258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1243ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1244ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 124617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1247ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1248ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1249614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1250ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1251aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 125219c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12535673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1254aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1255aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1256aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1257e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1258e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1259d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1260d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1261d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1262e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1263aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1264aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 126574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12669bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 126717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 126874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 126912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1270692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 127174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 127274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1273d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1274d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 127617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1277d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1278d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1279d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1280d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12818dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12835091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12855091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12865091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12875091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12885091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12895091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12905091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12915091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12925091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12935091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12945091faa4SMike Galbraith 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12965d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13195d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13267af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13277af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13287af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13297af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13307af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13317af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13337af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13347af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 133526b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13367af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13377af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13387af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13397af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13407af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13417af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13427af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13437af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1345f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1346f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1347f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1348f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1349f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1350f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1351f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1352f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13538c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1354f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1355f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1356f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1357f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1358f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1359f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1360f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1361c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1362c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1363dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1364dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1365c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1366c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1367877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1368877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1369877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1370877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1371877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1372877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1373877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1374877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1375877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1376877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1377877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1378c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 137996fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1380c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 138131a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 138231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1383c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13843a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1385c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1386877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1387877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13880847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13890847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13900847062aSRandy Dunlap 1391b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1392b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1393b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1394657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1395657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1396657a5209SMike Frysinger 1397657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1398657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1399657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1400657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1401657a5209SMike Frysinger 1402657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1403657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1404657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1405657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1406657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1407657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1408657a5209SMike Frysinger 1409657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1410657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1411657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1412657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1413657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1414657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1415657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1416657a5209SMike Frysinger 1417657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1418657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1419657a5209SMike Frysinger 1420f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1421f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1422f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1423f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14246a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1426f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1427f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1434ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14362813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1437ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1438ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1439ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1440ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14412813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14422813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14432813893fSIulia Manda default y 14442813893fSIulia Manda help 14452813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14462813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14472813893fSIulia Manda 14482813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14492813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14502813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14512813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14522813893fSIulia Manda 14532813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14542813893fSIulia Manda 1455f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1456f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1457f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1458f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1459f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1460f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1461f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1462f6187769SFabian Frederick 1463f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1464f6187769SFabian Frederick 14656af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 14686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 14696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1475b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 14766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 147726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1478c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1479b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1480b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 148113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 148213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 148313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 148413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1485b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 148613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 148713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 148813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1489b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1490c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1491ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1492baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1493baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1494baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1495baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1496baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1497baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1498baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1499baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1500baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1501baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1502baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1503baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1504baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1505baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1506baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1507baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1508baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 15091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 152171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 152271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 152371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 152471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 152571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 152771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 152871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 152971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 153071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 153271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1533d59745ceSMatt Mackall 15344d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 15354d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1536076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 15374d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 15384d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 15392213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 15402213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 15412213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 15422213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 15432213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 15442213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 15452213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 15462213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 15472213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 15482213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 15492213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 15502213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 15512213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 15522213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 15532213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 15542213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 15552213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 15562213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1557d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1558d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 156074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1561d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1562d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1563d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1564d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1565d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1566d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1567d59745ceSMatt Mackall 156842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 156942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 157042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 157142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 157242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1573c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1575c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1576c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1577c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1578c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1579c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1580c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1581c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1582c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1583708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1584046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1585708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1587708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1588708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1589708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15908761f1abSRalf Baechle 1591e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15938761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 159415f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1595e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1596e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1597e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1598e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1599e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 16001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 161123f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 161703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 161803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 161962b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 162003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 162103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 162203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 162303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 162403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 16251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1628448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1633fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1635448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1636fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1637fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1638fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1639fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1640fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1641fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1642fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1643b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1645448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1646b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1647b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1648b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1649b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1650b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1651b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1652b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1653e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1655448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1656e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1657e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1658e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1659e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1660e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1661e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1662e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1663f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1664f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1665e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1666f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1667f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1668f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1669f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1670f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1671f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1672f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 16731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1684ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1686ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1687ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1688ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1689ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1690ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1691ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1692d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1693d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1694d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1695d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1696d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1697d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1698d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1699d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1700d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1701d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1702a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1703a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1704a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1705a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1706a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1707a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1708a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1709a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1710657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1711657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1712657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1713657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1714657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1715657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1716657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1717657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1718657a5209SMike Frysinger 17195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17205b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17215b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17225b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17235b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17275b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17285b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17295b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17316befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17326befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17335d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17346befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17356befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17366befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17376befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17386befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17396befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1740cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17410793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1742018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1743018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17440793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1746906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1750ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1751ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" 1752ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1753ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1754ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1755ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1756ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 175757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17580793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1759cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 176057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1761392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1762cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17634c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1764e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 176583fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17660793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 176757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 176857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1770dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 177157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 177257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 177357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 177457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17750793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17760793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17770793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17780793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17790793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17800793a61dSThomas Gleixner 178157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1782dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 178357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17840793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17850793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17870793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17880793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1789906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1790906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1791906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1792cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1793906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1794906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1795906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1796906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1797906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1798906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1799906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1800906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1801906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18020793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1804f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1805f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1807f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18082aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18092aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18106a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18112aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1812f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 181341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 181441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1816f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 181741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 181841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 181941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 182041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 182141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 182241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 18231663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 18241663f26dSTejun Heo default n 18251663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 18261663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 18271663f26dSTejun Heo help 18281663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 18291663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 18301663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 18311663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 18321663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 18331663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 18341663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 18351663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 18361663f26dSTejun Heo 1837b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1838b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1839b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1840b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1841b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1842b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1843b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1844692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1845b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1846b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1847b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1848b943c460SRandy Dunlap 184981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 185081819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1851a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 185281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 185381819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 185481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 185581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 185681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 185704385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 185881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 185981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 186034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 186102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 186281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 186381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 186481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1865ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 186681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 186781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 186881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 186981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 187081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 187102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 187202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 187381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 187481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18756a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 187681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 187781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 187837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 187937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 188037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 188181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 188281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 188381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1884c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1885c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1886210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1887c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1888c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1889210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1890c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1891c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1892c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 1893345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1894345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1895b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1896345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1897345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1899345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1901345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1902345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1903345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1904ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1905ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19066a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1907ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1908ea637639SJie Zhang help 1909ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1910ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1911ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1912ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1913ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1914ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1915ea637639SJie Zhang 1916ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1917ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1918ea637639SJie Zhang 1919ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1920ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1921ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1922ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1923ea637639SJie Zhang 1924ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1925ea637639SJie Zhang 1926091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1931d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193882c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1939091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1942091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194382c04ff8SPeter Foley 1944125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1945b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1946125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1948125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1949125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19505f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19515f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19525f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19535f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19555f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1957fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1958fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 19591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1961ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1962ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1963ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1964ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1965158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1966158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1967158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 19680f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1969158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1970158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1971ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19726341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1973ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 197966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 198111097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20000b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20010b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2002826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2003826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2004826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2005826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 200691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 200791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2009826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2015f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2016f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 202019c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20290d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 203856067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 203956067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204056067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204156067812SArd Biesheuvel 20421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2053106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2054106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2055106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 2056091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2058106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2060106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2062228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2063228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2064228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2065228c37ffSDavid Howells 2066ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2071106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2072106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2073106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2074106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2075106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2076106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2078d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2079d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2080d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2081d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2082d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2083d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2084d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2089ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2090ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2091ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212222753674SMichal Marek string 212322753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 212422753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 212522753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 212622753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 212722753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 212822753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 212922753674SMichal Marek 2130beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2131beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2132beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2133beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2135b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2136b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2138b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2140b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2141b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2143b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2144b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2148b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2149beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2150beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2151beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2152beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2154beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2168dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2169dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2170dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2171dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2172dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2173dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2174dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2175dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2176dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2177dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2178dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2179dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2180dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2181dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2182f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2183dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21840b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 21850b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 21866c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 21876c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 21886c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 21896c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 219098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 219198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 219298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21935f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21945f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 219598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 219698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2197692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 219898a79d6aSRusty Russell 21993a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2200e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2201e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2202e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2203e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 220416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 220516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 220616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 220716295becSSteffen Klassert 22084520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22094520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22104520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22114520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22124520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22134520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22144520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22154520c6a4SDavid Howells 22166beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2217