180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 288b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 28969369a70SJosh Triplett help 29069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29569369a70SJosh Triplett 2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 298804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 302cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 303cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 309cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 312939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 313939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 314939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 315939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 31874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31963c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32174c3cbe3SAl Viro 322d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 323764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 324d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 325391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 326391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 328abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 338c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 346abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 348c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 361ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 362554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 379c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3922813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 41719c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4192813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 433f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 463c903ff83SMike Travis 464c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 465e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 466e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 467c903ff83SMike Travis help 468c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 469c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 470c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 471c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 472c903ff83SMike Travis 47328f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 474e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 475e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if PREEMPT 476f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 478f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 480bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 481bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4839fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4849fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4859b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 486e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 487e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 4889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 49478cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT 49578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 49678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney default n 49778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney help 49878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 49978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 50078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 50178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 50278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 50378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney obscure RCU options to be set up. 50478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 50578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 50678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 50983fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 51083fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 51183fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 51283fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 51383fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 51483fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 51583fe27eaSPranith Kumar 5168315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 51782d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5188315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 51983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5208315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5218315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5228315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5238315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5248315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5256bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 52628f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5276bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5286bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5296bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5306bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5316bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5326bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 53391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 53591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 53691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 53791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 539d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5401fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 541d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 542d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 55699c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 562d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 563c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 564c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 565c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 566c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 56705c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 568c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 569c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 570c903ff83SMike Travis help 571c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 572c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5734d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5744d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5754d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5764d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5774d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 579c903ff83SMike Travis 580c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 581c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 582c903ff83SMike Travis 5838932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5848932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5858739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 5868739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 58747d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6108bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 61278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 615c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 616c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 617c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 618c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 619c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 620c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 621c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6228bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 623c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 624c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6258bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 628c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 62928f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 630c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 631c903ff83SMike Travis help 632f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 63328f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 634f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 635c903ff83SMike Travis 63624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 63724278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 63878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 63924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 64024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 64124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 64224278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 64324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 64424278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 64524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 64724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 64921871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 65021871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 651a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 652a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 653a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 654a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 65526730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 65721871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 65821871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 65921871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 66021871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 66121871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 66221871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 66321871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 66421871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 665c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 666c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 667c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 668c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 669c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 67021871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 67521871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 67724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 67824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 67924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 68024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 68224278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 68324278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 68424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 68524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 68624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 68724278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 68824278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 68924278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 6933fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 6949a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 69528f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 696be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 6973fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 6983fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 6993fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7003fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7013fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7023fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7033fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7043fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7053fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 706a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 707a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 708a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 709a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 710a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 711a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 712a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7133fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 71434ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 717911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 718911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 719911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7204568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 721911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 722676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 724676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 725676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 726911af505SPaul E. McKenney 727911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 728911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 729911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 730911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 732676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 739911af505SPaul E. McKenney 740911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 743676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 749911af505SPaul E. McKenney 750911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 752676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney 754911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 756911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 757911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 763676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 764911af505SPaul E. McKenney 765911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 767911af505SPaul E. McKenney 768911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 769911af505SPaul E. McKenney 770ee42571fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT 771ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney bool 772ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney default n 773ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney help 774ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time, 775ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot. 776ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from 777ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked 778ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before 779ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney init is exec'ed. 780ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 781ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 782ee42571fSPaul E. McKenney 783c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 784c903ff83SMike Travis 785de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 786de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 787de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 788de5b56baSVivek Goyal 7891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 790f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 791de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 809794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 810794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 811fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 812f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 813361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 814794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 81523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 820f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 821f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 822f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 825794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 826794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 827794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8302240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 83123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 83223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 834361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 83523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 8645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 87038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 87138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 87238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 880be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 88172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 88272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 88372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 88472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 88572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 88672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 88772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 88872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 88972b252aeSMel Gorman 89072b252aeSMel Gorman# 891be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9106d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9236341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9242bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 925ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 93145ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 93245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 933ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 934ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 93723964d2dSLi Zefan 9383e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9393e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9403e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 941c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 942a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9433e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 94479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 94500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 946a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 94700f0b825SBalbir Singh 948c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 949a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 950c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 951c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 952a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 953a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 954c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 955a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 956c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 957a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 958a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 959a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 960a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 96143d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 96207555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 963a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 964a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 965a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 96600a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 967c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9712bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9762bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 981e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1002e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10037c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1004a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10057c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10067c941438SDhaval Giani help 10077c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10087c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10097c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10107c941438SDhaval Giani 10117c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10127c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10137c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10147c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10157c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10167c941438SDhaval Giani 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1021ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1022ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1023ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1024ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1025ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1026ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1027ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10287c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10297c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10307c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10317c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10327c941438SDhaval Giani help 10337c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 103432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10357c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10367c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10377c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10387c941438SDhaval Giani 10397c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10407c941438SDhaval Giani 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10506cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 10536cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1063489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1064489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1065489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1066489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1067489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1091afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1093afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 109789e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 109889e9b9e0STejun Heo 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1131c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1132067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1133067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 11342e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1135067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1136067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1137067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1138067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1139067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1140067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1141067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1142067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1143067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11462813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11476a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1148c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1149c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1150c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1151c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1152c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1153c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 115658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 115758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 115817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 115958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 116058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 116158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 116258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1163ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1164ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 116617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1167ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1168ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1169614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1170ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1171aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 117219c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11735673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1174aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1175aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1176aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1177e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1178e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1179d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1180d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1181d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1182e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1183aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1184aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 118574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11869bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 118717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 118874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 118912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1190692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 119174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 119274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1193d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1194d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 119617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1197d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1198d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1199d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1200d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12028dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12035091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12045091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12055091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12065091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12075091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12085091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12095091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12105091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12115091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12125091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12135091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12145091faa4SMike Galbraith 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12165d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12395d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1264f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1265f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1266f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1267f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1268f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1269f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1270f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1271f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1272f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1280c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1281c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1282dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1283dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1284c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1285c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1286c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 128796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1288c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 128931a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 129031a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1291c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12923a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1293c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12940847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12950847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12960847062aSRandy Dunlap 1297b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1298b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1299b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1300657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger 1303657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger 1308657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger 1315657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1320657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1321657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger 1323657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1325657a5209SMike Frysinger 1326f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1327f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1328f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1329f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13306a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1332f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1333f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1340ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13422813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1343ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1344ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1345ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1346ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13472813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13482813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13492813893fSIulia Manda default y 13502813893fSIulia Manda help 13512813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13522813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13532813893fSIulia Manda 13542813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13552813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13562813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13572813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13582813893fSIulia Manda 13592813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13602813893fSIulia Manda 1361f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1362f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1363f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1364f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1365f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1366f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1367f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1368f6187769SFabian Frederick 1369f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1370f6187769SFabian Frederick 13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13766af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1381b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 138326a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1384c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1385b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1386b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 138713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 138813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 138913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 139013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1391b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 139213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 139313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 139413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1395b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1396c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1397ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 141071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 141171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 141271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 141371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 141471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 141771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 141871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 141971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 142171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1422d59745ceSMatt Mackall 14234d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 14244d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 14254d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 14264d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 14272213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 14282213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 14292213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 14302213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 14312213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 14322213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 14332213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 14342213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 14352213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 14362213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 14372213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 14382213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 14392213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 14402213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 14412213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 14422213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 14432213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 14442213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1445d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1446d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 144874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1449d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1450d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1451d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1452d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1453d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1454d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1455d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1456c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1458c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1459c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1460c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1461c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1462c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1463c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1464c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1465c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1466708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1467046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1468708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1470708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1471708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1472708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14738761f1abSRalf Baechle 1474e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14768761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 147715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1478e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1479e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1480e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1481e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1482e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 149423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 150003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 150103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 150262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 150303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 150403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 150503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 150603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 150703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1511448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1516fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1518448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1519fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1520fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1521fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1522fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1523fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1524fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1525fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1526b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1528448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1529b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1530b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1531b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1532b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1533b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1534b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1535b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1536e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1538448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1539e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1540e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1541e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1542e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1543e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1544e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1545e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1546f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1547f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1548e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1549f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1550f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1551f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1552f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1553f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1554f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1555f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 15561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1567ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1569ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1570ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1571ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1572ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1573ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1574ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1575d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1576d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1577d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1578d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1579d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1580d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1581d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1582d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1583d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1584d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1585a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1586a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1587a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1588a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1589a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1590a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1591a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1592a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1593657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1594657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1595657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1596657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1597657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1598657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1599657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1600657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1601657a5209SMike Frysinger 16025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16125b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16135b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16146befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16156befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16165d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16176befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16186befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16196befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16206befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16216befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16226befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1623cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16240793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1625018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1626018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1628906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1629906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1630906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1631906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1632906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 163357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1635cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 163657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1637392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1638cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16394c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1640e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 164183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16420793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 164357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 164457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1646dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 164757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 164857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 164957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 165057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16510793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16520793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16530793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16540793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16550793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16560793a61dSThomas Gleixner 165757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1658dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 165957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16600793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16610793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16630793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1665906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1666906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1667906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1668cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1669906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1670906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1671906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1672906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1674906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1675906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1676906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1677906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16780793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1680f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1681f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1683f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16842aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16852aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16866a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16872aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1688f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 168941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 169041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1692f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 169341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 169441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 169541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 169641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 169741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 169841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1699b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1700b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1701b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1702b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1703b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1704b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1705b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1706692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1707b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1708b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1709b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1710b943c460SRandy Dunlap 171181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 171281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1713a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 171681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 172134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 172202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 172381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 172481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 172581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 172781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 172981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 173081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 173102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 173202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 173381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 173481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17356a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 173681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 173781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 173837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 173937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 174037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 174181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 174281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 174381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1744345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1745345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1746b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1747345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1748345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1749345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1750345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1751345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1752345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1753345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1754345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1755ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1756ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17576a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1758ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1759ea637639SJie Zhang help 1760ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1761ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1762ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1763ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1764ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1765ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1766ea637639SJie Zhang 1767ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1768ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1769ea637639SJie Zhang 1770ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1771ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1772ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1773ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1774ea637639SJie Zhang 1775ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1776ea637639SJie Zhang 1777091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1778091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1779091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1780091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1781091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1782d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1783091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1784091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1785091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1786091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1787091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1788091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 178982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1790091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1791091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1792091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1793091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 179482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1795125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1796b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1797125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1798125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1799125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1800125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18015f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18025f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18035f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18045f87f112SIngo Molnar# 180597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18065f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 180797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1808fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1809fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 18101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1812ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1813ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1814ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1815ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1816158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1817158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1818158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 18190f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1820158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1821158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1822ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18236341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1824ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 183066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 183211097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18510b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18520b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1853826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1854826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1855826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1856826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 185791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 185891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 185991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1860826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1866f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1867f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 187119c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18800d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1900106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1901106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1902106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1903091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1904106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1905106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1906106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1907106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1908106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1909228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1910228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1911228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1912228c37ffSDavid Howells 1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1915ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1918106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1919106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1920106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1921106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1922106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1923106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1925d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1926d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1927d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1928d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1929d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1930d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1931d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1932d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1933d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1934d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1935d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1956ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1957ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1958ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1959ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1960ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1961ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1962ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1963ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 196822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 196922753674SMichal Marek string 197022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 197122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 197222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 197322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 197422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 197522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 197622753674SMichal Marek 1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1978beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1982b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1983b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1985b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1987b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1988b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1990b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1991b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1993b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1994b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1995b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1998beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1999beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2000beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2001beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2002beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2003beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2004beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2005beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2006beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2007beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2008beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2009beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2010beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2011beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2012beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2013beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2014beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2015*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2016*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2017*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2018*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2019*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2020*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2021*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2022*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2023*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2024*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2025*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2026*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2027*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2028*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2029*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre If unsure say N. 2030*dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 20310b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20320b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20336c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20346c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20356c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20366c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 203798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 203898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 203998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20405f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20415f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 204298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 204398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2044692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 204598a79d6aSRusty Russell 20463a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2047e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2048e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2049e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2050e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 205116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 205216295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 205316295becSSteffen Klassert bool 205416295becSSteffen Klassert 2055754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2056754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2057754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 2058754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 2059754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 2060754b7b63SAndi Kleen 20614520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20624520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20634520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20644520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20654520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20664520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20674520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20684520c6a4SDavid Howells 20696beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2070