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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
4984336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5084336466SRoland McGrath	help
5184336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5284336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5384336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5484336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5584336466SRoland McGrath
564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
574bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
584bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
594bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
604bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
614bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
624bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
634bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
654bb16672SJiri Slaby
664bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
694bb16672SJiri Slaby
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
83aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1103ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1113ebe1243SLasse Collin
1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2139361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
24419c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
271a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
28769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
28869369a70SJosh Triplett	default y
28969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
29069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
29169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
29269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
29369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
29469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
29569369a70SJosh Triplett
2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
298804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
31567640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
318939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
319939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32374c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32463c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32528a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
32674c3cbe3SAl Viro
327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
367554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
42119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
43419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
44519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
45419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
464c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
465c903ff83SMike Travis
466c903ff83SMike Travischoice
467c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
46831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
469c903ff83SMike Travis
470c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
471c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
472687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
473c903ff83SMike Travis	help
474c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
475c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
476c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
477c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
478c903ff83SMike Travis
47928f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU
480a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
4819fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
485f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
486bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
487bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
488f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4899fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4909fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4938008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
500c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
501c903ff83SMike Travis
50283fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU
50383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	bool
50483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	help
50583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
50683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
50783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	  sections.
50883fe27eaSPranith Kumar
5098315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU
5108315f422SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
5118315f422SPaul E. McKenney	default n
51283fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
5138315f422SPaul E. McKenney	help
5148315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
5158315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5168315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
5178315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5188315f422SPaul E. McKenney	  If unsure, say N.
5198315f422SPaul E. McKenney
5206bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
52128f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
5226bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
5236bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
5246bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
5256bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
5266bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
5276bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
52891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
52991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
53091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
5312b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS
5322b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
53391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
53491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
5352b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5362b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
5372b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
5382b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
5392b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
540af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
5412b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker
542d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
54391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
544af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  adds unnecessary overhead.
545d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
546d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure say N
547d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
54891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
54991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
55091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
5521fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks working.
557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  CPUs in the system.
567d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
56899c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker	  Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
569d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
570d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker	  don't want in production.
573d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker
574d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
575c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
576c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
577c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
578c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
57928f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
580c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
581c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
582c903ff83SMike Travis	help
583c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
584c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5854d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5864d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5874d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5884d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5894d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5904d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
591c903ff83SMike Travis
592c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
593c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
594c903ff83SMike Travis
5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
59928f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
6218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
622c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
623c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
62428f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
625c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
626c903ff83SMike Travis	help
627c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
628c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
629c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
630c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
631c903ff83SMike Travis
632c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
633c903ff83SMike Travis
634c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
635c903ff83SMike Travis
6368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
6378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
6383451d024SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
6398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
641c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
642c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
643c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
644c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
645c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
646c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
647c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
6488bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
649c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
650c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
6518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
654c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
65528f6569aSPranith Kumar	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
656c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
657c903ff83SMike Travis	help
658f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
65928f6569aSPranith Kumar	  PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
660f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
661c903ff83SMike Travis
66224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
66427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
66524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
67124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
67224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
67324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
67424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
67521871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
67621871d7eSClark Williams	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
677a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
678a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
679a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
680a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
68124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
68221871d7eSClark Williams	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
68321871d7eSClark Williams	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
68421871d7eSClark Williams	  used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
68521871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
68621871d7eSClark Williams	  running at a real-time priority level, you should set
68721871d7eSClark Williams	  RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
68821871d7eSClark Williams	  real-time CPU-bound application thread.  The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
68921871d7eSClark Williams	  value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
690c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
691c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
692c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
693c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
694c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
69521871d7eSClark Williams	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
696c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
697c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
698c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
699c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
70021871d7eSClark Williams	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
701c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
70324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
70524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
70624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
70724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
70824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
70924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
71024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
71124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
71224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
71324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
71424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
71524278d14SPaul E. McKenney
71624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
71724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
7199a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
72028f6569aSPranith Kumar	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
7213fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
7223fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
7233fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
7243fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
7253fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
7283fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
7293fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
730a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
731a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
732a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
733a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
734a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
735a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
736a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
7373fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
73834ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
7393fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
7403fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
741911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
742911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
743911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
7444568779fSStefan Hengelein	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
745911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
750911af505SPaul E. McKenney
751911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
752911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
753911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
754911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
755911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
762676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
763911af505SPaul E. McKenney
764911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
765911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
766911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
767676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
768676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
769676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
770676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
773911af505SPaul E. McKenney
774911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
775676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
776676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
777911af505SPaul E. McKenney
778911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
779911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
780911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
781911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
782676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
783676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
784676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
785676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
786676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
787676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
788911af505SPaul E. McKenney
789911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
790911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
791911af505SPaul E. McKenney
792911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
793911af505SPaul E. McKenney
794c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
795c903ff83SMike Travis
796de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
797de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
798de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
799de5b56baSVivek Goyal
8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
801f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
802de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
820794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
821794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
822794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
824361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
825794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
82623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
82723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
83023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
831f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
832f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
833f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
834f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
835f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
836794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
837794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
838794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
8412240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
845361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
85323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
85423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
86423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
86523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
86623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
86723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
86823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
86923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
87023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
87123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
87223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
87323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
87423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
8755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
8775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
8785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
8795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
8805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
88138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
88238ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
88338ff87f7SStephen Boyd
884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
890be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
891be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
9116d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
9156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
92323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
9246341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
9252bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
926ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
92723964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
9315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
93245ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
93345ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
934ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
93723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
93823964d2dSLi Zefan
939006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
940006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
941418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
942006cb992SPaul Menage	help
943006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
944006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
94523964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
946006cb992SPaul Menage
94723964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
948006cb992SPaul Menage
949dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
95023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
951dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
952dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
953dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
954dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
95508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
95608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
95708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
95808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
95908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
96008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
9611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
964d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
97123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
97223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
97323964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
97423964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
97523964d2dSLi Zefan
976d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
977d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
978d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
979d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
98023964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
981d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
9823e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9833e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
9843e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
985c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
98600f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
9873e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
98879bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
98900f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
99084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
99121acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
99200f0b825SBalbir Singh
993c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
99465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
995c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
996c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
997c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
998c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
999c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1000c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1001c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1002c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1003c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1004c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1005c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1006c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
100700a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
1008627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
1009627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
1010c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
1011a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
1012c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
1013a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
1014a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
1015a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1016a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
101743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
101807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
1019a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
1020a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1021a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
102200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1023c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
102419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
102519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
1026510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
1027e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
1028e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1029e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1030e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1031e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1032e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1033e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
1034c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10352ee06468SVladimir Davydov	  WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means
10362ee06468SVladimir Davydov	  allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
10372ee06468SVladimir Davydov	  are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
10382ee06468SVladimir Davydov	  unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
10392ee06468SVladimir Davydov	  purposes.
10402ee06468SVladimir Davydov
10412bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10422bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
104371f87beeSJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
104471f87beeSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
10452bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
10462bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
10472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
10482bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10492bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10502bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10532bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10552bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
10562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
1057e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
1058e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1059e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1060e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
1061e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
10622d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1063e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
1064e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
1065e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
1066e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
10677c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
10687c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
10697c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10707c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10717c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
10727c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
10737c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
10747c941438SDhaval Giani
10757c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
10767c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10777c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
10787c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10797c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
10807c941438SDhaval Giani
1081ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
1082ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1083ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1084ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1085ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1086ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1087ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1088ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1089ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1090ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1091ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10927c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10937c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10947c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10957c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10967c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10977c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
109832bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10997c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
11007c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
11017c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
11027c941438SDhaval Giani
11037c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
11047c941438SDhaval Giani
1105afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
110632e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
110779ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1108afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1109afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1110afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1111afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1112afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1113afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1114afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1115afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1116e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1117e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1118afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1120e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
112179e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
112279e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1123c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1126afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1127afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1128afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1129afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1130afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1131afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1132afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1133afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1134afc24d49SVivek Goyal
113523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1136c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1137067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1138067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1139067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1140067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1141067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1142067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1143067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1144067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1145067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1146067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1147067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
11488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11496a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1151c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1152c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1153c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1154c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1155c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1156c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
115958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
116058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
116117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
116258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
116358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
116458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
116558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1166ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1167ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
116917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1170ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1171ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1172614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1173ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1174aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
117519c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11765673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1177aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1178aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1179aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1180e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1181e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1182e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1183e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1184e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1185e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1186e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1187aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1188aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
118974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11909bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
119117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
119274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
119312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1194692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
119574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
119674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1197d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1198d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
120017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1201d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1202d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1203d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1204d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12075091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12085091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12095091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12105091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12115091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12125091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12135091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12145091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12155091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12165091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12175091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12185091faa4SMike Galbraith
12197af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12205d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12435d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1268f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1269f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1270f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1271f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1272f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1284c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1285c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1286dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1287dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1288c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1289c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1290c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
129196fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1292c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
129331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
129431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1295c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12963a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1297c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12980847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12990847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13000847062aSRandy Dunlap
1301b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1302b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1303b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1304657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1305657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1306657a5209SMike Frysinger
1307657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1308657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1309657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1310657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1311657a5209SMike Frysinger
1312657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1313657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1314657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1315657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1316657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1317657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1318657a5209SMike Frysinger
1319657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1320657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1321657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1322657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1323657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1324657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1325657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1326657a5209SMike Frysinger
1327657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1328657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1329657a5209SMike Frysinger
1330f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1331f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1332f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1333f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13346a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1336f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1337f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1344ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1346af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	depends on HAVE_UID16
1347ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1348ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1349ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1350ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1351f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1352f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1353f6187769SFabian Frederick	def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1354f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1355f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1356f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1357f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1358f6187769SFabian Frederick
1359f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1360f6187769SFabian Frederick
13616af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1371b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
13726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
137326a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1374c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1375b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1376b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
137713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
137813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
137913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
138013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1381b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
138213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
138313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
138413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1385b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1386c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1387ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
13896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
140071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
140171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
140271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
140371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
140471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
140671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
140771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
140871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
140971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
141171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1412d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1413d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1414d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14156a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
141674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1417d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1418d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1419d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1420d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1421d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1422d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1423d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1424c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1426c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1427c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1428c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1429c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1430c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1431c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1432c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1433c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1434708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1435046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1436708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1438708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1439708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1440708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14418761f1abSRalf Baechle
1442e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14436a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14448761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
144515f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1446e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1447e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1448e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1449e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1450e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14536a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14606a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
146223f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
146803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
146903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
147062b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
147103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
147203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
147303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
147403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
147503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14776a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1479448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1484fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1486448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1487fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1488fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1489fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1490fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1491fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1492fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1493fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1494b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1496448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1497b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1498b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1499b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1500b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1501b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1502b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1503b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1504e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1506448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1507e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1508e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1509e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1510e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1511e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1512e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1513e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1514f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier
1515f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1516*e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1517f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select ANON_INODES
1518f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	select BPF
1519f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	default n
1520f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1521f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1522f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1523f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
15241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1535ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1537ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1538ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1539ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1540ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1541ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1542ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1543d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1544d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1545d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1546d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1547d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1548d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1549d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1550d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1551d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1552d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
1553657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1554657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1555657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1556657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1557657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1558657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1559657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1560657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1561657a5209SMike Frysinger
15626befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15645d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15656befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15666befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15686befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1571cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15720793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1573018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1574018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15750793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1576906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1577906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1578906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1579906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1580906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
158157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
15820793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1583cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
158457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1585392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1586cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15874c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1588e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
158983fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
15900793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
159157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
159257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
15930793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1594dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
159557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
159657c0c15bSIngo Molnar
159757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
159857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
15990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16010793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16020793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16030793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16040793a61dSThomas Gleixner
160557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1606dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
160757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16080793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16090793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16100793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16110793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16120793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1613906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1614906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1615906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1616906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1617906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1621906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1622906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1623906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1624906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1625906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16260793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1628f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1629f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1631f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16352aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1636f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
163741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
163841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16396a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1640f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
164141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
164241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
164341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
164441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
164541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
164641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1647b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1648b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1649b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1650b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1651b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1652b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1653b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1654692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1655b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1656b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1657b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1658b943c460SRandy Dunlap
165981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
166081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1661a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
166281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
166381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
166481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
166581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
166681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
166781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
166881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
166934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
167002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
167181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
167281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
167381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
167481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
167681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
167881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
167902f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
168002f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
168181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
168281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
16836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
168481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
168581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
168637291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
168737291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
168837291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
168981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
169081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
169181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1692345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1693345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1694b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1695345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1696345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1697345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1698345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1699345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1700345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1701345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1702345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1703ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1704ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1706ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1707ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1708ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1709ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1710ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1711ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1712ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1713ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1714ea637639SJie Zhang
1715ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1716ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1717ea637639SJie Zhang
1718ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1719ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1720ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1721ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1722ea637639SJie Zhang
1723ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1724ea637639SJie Zhang
172582c04ff8SPeter Foleyconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
172682c04ff8SPeter Foley	bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
172782c04ff8SPeter Foley	depends on KEYS
172882c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
172982c04ff8SPeter Foley	  Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added.  Keys in
173082c04ff8SPeter Foley	  the keyring are considered to be trusted.  Keys may be added at will
173182c04ff8SPeter Foley	  by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
173282c04ff8SPeter Foley	  userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
173382c04ff8SPeter Foley	  keys already in the keyring.
173482c04ff8SPeter Foley
173582c04ff8SPeter Foley	  Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
173682c04ff8SPeter Foley
1737125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1738b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1739125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1740125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1741125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1742125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17435f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17445f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17455f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17465f87f112SIngo Molnar#
174797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
17485f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
174997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1750fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1751fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
17521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1754ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1755ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1756ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1757ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1758158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1759158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1760158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
17610f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1762158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1763158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1764ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
17656341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1766ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
17671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
177266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
177411097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17930b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
17940b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1795826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1796826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1797826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1798826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
179991e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
180091e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
180191e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1802826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1808f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1809f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
181319c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18220d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1842106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1843106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1844106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1845b56e5a17SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
184648ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
184748ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
184848ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
184948ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
185048ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
185148ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
185248ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
185348ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1854106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1855106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1856106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1857106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1858106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1859ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1860ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1861ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1862ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1863ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1864106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1865106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1866106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1867106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1868106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1869106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1870ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1871d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1872d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1873d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1874d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1875d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1876d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1877d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1878d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1879d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1880d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1881d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1882ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1883ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1885ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1886ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1887ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1888ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1889ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1890ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1891ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1892ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1893ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1894ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1895ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1896ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1906ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1908ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
191422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
191522753674SMichal Marek	string
191622753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
191722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
191822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
191922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
192022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
192122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
192222753674SMichal Marek
1923beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1924beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1925beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1926beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1927beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1928beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  modules_install' is run.
1929beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1930beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1931beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1932beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1933beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1934beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  and xz compressed modules.
1935beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1936beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1937beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1938beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1939beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1940beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1941beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1942beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  initrd or initramfs instead.
1943beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1944beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1945beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1946beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1947beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1948beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1949beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1950beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1953beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1954beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1955beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1956beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1957beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1958beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1960beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1961beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
19660b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
19670b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
196898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
196998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
197098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
19715f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
19725f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
197398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
197498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1975692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
197698a79d6aSRusty Russell
19771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
19833a65dfe8SJens Axboe
19843a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1985e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1986e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1987e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1988e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
198916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
199016295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
199116295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
199216295becSSteffen Klassert
1993754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1994754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1995754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
1996754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
1997754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
1998754b7b63SAndi Kleen
19994520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20004520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20014520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20024520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20034520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20044520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20054520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20064520c6a4SDavid Howells
20076beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2008