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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
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1183ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1490a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1600a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1623ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1633ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1643ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1653ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
182681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
187bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
188bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
189bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
190bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
191bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
192bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
193bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
194bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
195bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
1961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1989361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
221a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
225a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
226a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
22919c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
235b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
247bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
248bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
249990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
250990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
251990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
252990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
253990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
254990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
255990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
256990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
257990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
258990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
259990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
260990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
2611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
263804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2728f827a14SWill Deacon	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
27767640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
279939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
280939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
281939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
282939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
28474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
28574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
28663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
28874c3cbe3SAl Viro
289633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
290633b4545SEric Paris	bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
291633b4545SEric Paris	depends on AUDIT
292633b4545SEric Paris	help
293f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds	  The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
294633b4545SEric Paris	  CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
295633b4545SEric Paris	  but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
296633b4545SEric Paris	  previously set.  On systems which use systemd or a similar central
297633b4545SEric Paris	  process to restart login services this should be set to true.  On older
298633b4545SEric Paris	  systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
299633b4545SEric Paris	  start processes this should be set to false.  Setting this to true allows
300633b4545SEric Paris	  one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
301633b4545SEric Paris	  but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
302633b4545SEric Paris
303d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
304764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
305d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
306391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
307391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
308abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
309abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
310abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
311fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
312fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
313fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
31402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
316fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
317fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
318fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
319c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
320fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
321fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
323fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
324fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
325fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
328391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
329c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
330abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
332391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
333391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
334391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
335391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
337391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT
343abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
344abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
345abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
346abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
348abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
353abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
359c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
361fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
39619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
40919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
42019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
42919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
439c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
440c903ff83SMike Travis
441c903ff83SMike Travischoice
442c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
44331c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
444c903ff83SMike Travis
445c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
446c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
447687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
448016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt	select IRQ_WORK
449c903ff83SMike Travis	help
450c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
451c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
452c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
453c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
454c903ff83SMike Travis
455f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
456a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
4579fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
461f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
462bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
463bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
464f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4659fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you are unsure.
4669fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney
4679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4698008e129SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
4709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4759b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
476c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
477c903ff83SMike Travis
478a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
479127781d1SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
480a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
481a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
482a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
483a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
4846bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON
4856bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
4866bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	help
4876bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
4886bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
4896bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
4906bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
4916bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney
49291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING
49391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker       bool
49491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker
4952b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS
4962b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
49791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
49891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
4992b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5002b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
5012b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
5022b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
5032b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
504af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
5052b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker
506d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
50791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
508af71befaSPaul Gortmaker	  adds unnecessary overhead.
509d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
510d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure say N
511d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
51291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
51391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Force context tracking"
51491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
5158b438766SFrederic Weisbecker	default CONTEXT_TRACKING
5161fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker	help
51791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
51891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
51991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  quiescent states.
52091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
52191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker	  full dynticks mode.
522d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker
523c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
524c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
525c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
526c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
527f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
528c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
529c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
530c903ff83SMike Travis	help
531c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
532c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
5334d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
5344d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
5354d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
5364d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
5374d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
5384d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
539c903ff83SMike Travis
540c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
541c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
542c903ff83SMike Travis
5438932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
5448932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
5458932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
5468932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
5478932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
5488932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	default 16
5498932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	help
5508932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
5518932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
5528932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
5538932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
5548932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
5558932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
5568932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
5578932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
5588932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
5598932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
5608932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
5618932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
5628932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
5638932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5648932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
5658932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5668932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
5678932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
5688932a63dSPaul E. McKenney	  Take the default if unsure.
5698932a63dSPaul E. McKenney
570c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
571c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
572f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
573c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
574c903ff83SMike Travis	help
575c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
576c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
577c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
578c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
579c903ff83SMike Travis
580c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
581c903ff83SMike Travis
582c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
583c903ff83SMike Travis
5848bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
5858bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
5863451d024SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
5878bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
5888bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
589c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
590c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
591c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
592c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
593c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
594c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
595c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
5968bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
597c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
598c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
5998bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
6008bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
6018bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
602c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
603f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
604c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
605c903ff83SMike Travis	help
606f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
607f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
608f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
609c903ff83SMike Travis
61024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
61124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
61227f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
61324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
61424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
61524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
61624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
61724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
61824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
61924278d14SPaul E. McKenney
62024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
62124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
62224278d14SPaul E. McKenney
62324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
62424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
62524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
62624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
62724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
62824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
629c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
630c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  preempted RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working
631c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
632c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
633c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
634c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time CPU-bound thread.  The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
635c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
636c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
637c9336643SPaul E. McKenney
638c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
639c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
640c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
641c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  that CPU.  In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
642c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
643c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
644c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  tasks.  For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
645c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
646c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
647c9336643SPaul E. McKenney	  set to priority 6 or higher.
64824278d14SPaul E. McKenney
64924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
65124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
65924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
66224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
6643fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU
6659a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
6663fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
6673fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	default n
6683fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	help
6693fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
6703fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
6713fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
6723fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
6733fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
6743fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
6753fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
676a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
677a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
678a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
679a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  "s" for RCU-sched.  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
680a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
681a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
682a4889858SPaul E. McKenney	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
6833fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
68434ed6246SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
6853fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
6863fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney
687911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice
688911af505SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
689911af505SPaul E. McKenney	default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
690911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
691676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
692676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
693676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  at build time.  Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
694676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
695911af505SPaul E. McKenney
696911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
697911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
69873c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
699911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
700911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
701911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
702676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
703676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo".  All other CPUs will
704676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
705676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney
706676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
707676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
708676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
709911af505SPaul E. McKenney
710911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
711911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
71273c30828SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
713911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
714676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
715676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
716676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  with "rcuo".	Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
717676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
718676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
719676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  context.
720911af505SPaul E. McKenney
721911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
722676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
723676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
724911af505SPaul E. McKenney
725911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
726911af505SPaul E. McKenney	bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
727911af505SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
728911af505SPaul E. McKenney	help
729911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.  The rcu_nocbs=
730676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  boot parameter will be ignored.  All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
731676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
732676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  this purpose.  Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
736911af505SPaul E. McKenney
737911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
738911af505SPaul E. McKenney	  or energy-efficiency reasons.
739911af505SPaul E. McKenney
740911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
741911af505SPaul E. McKenney
742c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
743c903ff83SMike Travis
7441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
745f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
763794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
764794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
765794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
766f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
767794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
768794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
769f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
770f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
771f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
772f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
773f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
774794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
775794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
776794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	default y
804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8071a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8081a687c2eSMel Gorman	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8091a687c2eSMel Gorman	default y
8101a687c2eSMel Gorman	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8111a687c2eSMel Gorman	help
8121a687c2eSMel Gorman	  If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8131a687c2eSMel Gorman	  machine.
8141a687c2eSMel Gorman
815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
816be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
817be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
818be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
819be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
820be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
821be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
822be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
823be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  it is references to the node the task is running on.
824be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
825be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
826be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
82723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
82823964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
8290dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
830ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
83123964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
8355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
83645ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
83745ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
838ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
839ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
840ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
84123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
84223964d2dSLi Zefan
843006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
844006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
845418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
846006cb992SPaul Menage	help
847006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
848006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
84923964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
850006cb992SPaul Menage
85123964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
852006cb992SPaul Menage
853dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
85423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
855dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
856dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
857dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
858dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
85908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
86008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
86108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
86208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
86308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
86408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
868d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
87523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
87623964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
87723964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
87823964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
87923964d2dSLi Zefan
880d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
881d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
882d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
883d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
88423964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
885d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
886e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
887e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
888e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
889e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
89023964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
891e552b661SPavel Emelianov
892c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
89300f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
89479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
895cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
89600f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
89784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
89821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
89900f0b825SBalbir Singh
90000f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
90184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
902*f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly	  8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
90384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
90484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
90500f0b825SBalbir Singh
90600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
90784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
90884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
90984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
910c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
91100f0b825SBalbir Singh
912cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
913cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
914cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
915c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
91665e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
917c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
918c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
919c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
920c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
921c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
922c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
923c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
924c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
925c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
926c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
927c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
928c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
92900a66d29SWANG Cong	  if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
930627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
931627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
932c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
933a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
934c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
935a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
936a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
937a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
938a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
93943d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
940a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
941a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
942a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
943a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
94400a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
945c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM
94619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
94719c92399SKees Cook	depends on MEMCG
948510fc4e1SGlauber Costa	depends on SLUB || SLAB
949e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	help
950e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
951e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
952e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
953e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
954e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
955e5671dfaSGlauber Costa	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
956c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
95919c92399SKees Cook	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
9602bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
9612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
9622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
9632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9652bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9662bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9702bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
9712bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
972e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
973e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
974e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
975e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
976e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
9772d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
978e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
979e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
980e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
981e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9827c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
9837c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
9847c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9857c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9877c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9887c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9897c941438SDhaval Giani
9907c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9917c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9927c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9937c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9947c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9957c941438SDhaval Giani
996ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
997ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
998ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
999ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
1000ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
1001ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1002ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
1003ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1004ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
1005ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1006ab84d31eSPaul Turner
10077c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
10087c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
10097c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10107c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
10117c941438SDhaval Giani	help
10127c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
101332bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
10147c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
10157c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
10167c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
10177c941438SDhaval Giani
10187c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
10197c941438SDhaval Giani
1020afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
102132e380aeSTejun Heo	bool "Block IO controller"
102279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
1023afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1024afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1025afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1026afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1027afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
1028afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1029afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1030afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1031e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1032e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1033afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1034afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1035e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
103679e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
103779e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1038c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1039afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1040afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1041afc24d49SVivek Goyal
1042afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1043afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1044afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
1045afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
1046afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
1047afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1048afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1049afc24d49SVivek Goyal
105023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1051c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1052067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1053067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1054067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	default n
1055067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	help
1056067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1057067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1058067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1059067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  entries.
1060067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
1061067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov	  If unsure, say N here.
1062067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov
10638dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1066c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1067c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1068c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1069c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1070c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1071c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10738dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
107458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
107558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
107617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
107758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
107858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
107958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
108058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1081ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1082ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10838dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
108417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1085ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1086ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1087614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1088ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1089aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
109019c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
1091e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
10925673a94cSEric W. Biederman	select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1093e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
10945673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1095aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1096aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1097aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1098e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1099e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1100e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1101e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1102e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1103e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  use.
1104e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1105aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1106aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
110774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11089bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
110917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
111074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
111112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1112692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
111374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
111474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1115d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1116d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
111817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1119d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1120d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1121d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1122d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
1125e1c972b6SEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_CONVERTED
1126e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1127e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1128e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1129e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# the user namespace.
1130e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	bool
1131e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	default y
1132e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
1133e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	# Filesystems
1134e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on XFS_FS = n
1135e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman
11365673a94cSEric W. Biedermanconfig UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
11375673a94cSEric W. Biederman	bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1138e1c972b6SEric W. Biederman	depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
11395673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
11405673a94cSEric W. Biederman	help
11415673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
11425673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
11435673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11445673a94cSEric W. Biederman	 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
11455673a94cSEric W. Biederman
11465091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11475091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11485091faa4SMike Galbraith	select EVENTFD
11495091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11505091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11515091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11525091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11535091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11545091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11555091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11565091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11575091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11585091faa4SMike Galbraith
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11627af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11635d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11865d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1223f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1224f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1227c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1228c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1229dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1230dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1231c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1232c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1233c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
123496fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1235c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1236c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1237c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
1238c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12393a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1240c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12410847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12420847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12430847062aSRandy Dunlap
1244b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1245b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1246b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1247657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1248657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1249657a5209SMike Frysinger
1250657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1251657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1252657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1253657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1254657a5209SMike Frysinger
1255657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1256657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1257657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1258657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1259657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1260657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1261657a5209SMike Frysinger
1262657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1263657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1264657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1265657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1266657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1267657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1268657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1269657a5209SMike Frysinger
1270657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1271657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1272657a5209SMike Frysinger
12736a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12746a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1275f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1276f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1283ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12846a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1285af1839ebSCatalin Marinas	depends on HAVE_UID16
1286ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1287ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1288ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1289ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1290b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12916a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
129226a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1293c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1294b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1295b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
129613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
129713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
129813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
129913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1300b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
130113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
130213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
130313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1304b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1305c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1306ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
13086a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
131971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
132071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
132171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
132271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
132371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
132571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
132671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
132771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
132871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
133071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1331d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1332d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1333d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
133574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1336d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1337d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1338d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1339d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1340d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1341d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1342d59745ceSMatt Mackall
1343c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1345c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1346c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1347c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1348c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1349c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1350c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1351c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1352c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1353708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1354046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1355708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1357708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1358708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1359708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13608761f1abSRalf Baechle
1361e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13626a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13638761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
136415f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1365e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1366e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1367e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1368e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1369e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
138123f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1390448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1395fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1397448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1398fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1399fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1400fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1401fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1402fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1403fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1404fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1405b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14066a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1407448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1408b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1409b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1410b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1411b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1412b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1413b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1414b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1415e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1417448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1418e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1419e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1420e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1421e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1422e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1423e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1424e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1436ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1438ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1439ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1440ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1441ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1442ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1443ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1444657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS
1445657a5209SMike Frysinger	default y
1446657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1447657a5209SMike Frysinger	depends on PCI
1448657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1449657a5209SMike Frysinger	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1450657a5209SMike Frysinger	  bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1451657a5209SMike Frysinger	  unaffected by PCI quirks.
1452657a5209SMike Frysinger
14536befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
14546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
14556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
14566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
14576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
14586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
14596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
14606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1461cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14620793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1463018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1464018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
14650793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1466906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1467906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1468906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1469906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1470906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
147157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
14720793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1473cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
147457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1475392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1476cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
14774c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1478e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
14790793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
148057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
148157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
14820793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1483dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
148457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
148557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
148657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
148757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
14880793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
14890793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
14900793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
14910793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
14920793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
14930793a61dSThomas Gleixner
149457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1495dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
149657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
14970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
14980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
14990793a61dSThomas Gleixner
15000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
15010793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1502906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1503906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1504906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1505906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1506906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1507906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1508906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1509906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1510906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1511906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1512906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1513906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1514906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
15150793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1517f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1518f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
15196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1520f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
15212aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
15222aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
15236a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
15242aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1525f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
152641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
152741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
15286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1529f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
153041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
153141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
153241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
153341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
153441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
153541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1536b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1537b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1538b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1539b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1540b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1541b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1542b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1543692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1544b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1545b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1546b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1547b943c460SRandy Dunlap
154881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1550a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
155181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
155281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
155481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
155581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
155681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
155781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
155834013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
155902f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
156081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
156181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
156281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
156381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
156481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
156581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
156681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
156781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
156802f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
156902f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
157181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
15726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
157381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
157481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
157537291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
157637291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
157737291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
157881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
157981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
158081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1581ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1582ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
15836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1584ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1585ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1586ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1587ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1588ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1589ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1590ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1591ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1592ea637639SJie Zhang
1593ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1594ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1595ea637639SJie Zhang
1596ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1597ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1598ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1599ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1600ea637639SJie Zhang
1601ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1602ea637639SJie Zhang
1603125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1604b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1605125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1606125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1607125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1608125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
16095f87f112SIngo Molnar#
16105f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
16115f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
16125f87f112SIngo Molnar#
161397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
16145f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
161597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1616fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1617fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
16181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1620ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1621ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1622ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1623ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1624158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1625158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1626158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
16270f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1628158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1629158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1630ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1631ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1632ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
16331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
163866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16580b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
16590b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1660826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1661826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1662826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1663826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
166491e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
166591e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
166691e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1667826e4506SLinus Torvalds
16681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1673f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1674f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
167819c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
16870d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1707106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1708106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1709106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
171048ba2462SDavid Howells	select KEYS
171148ba2462SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
171248ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
171348ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
171448ba2462SDavid Howells	select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
171548ba2462SDavid Howells	select ASN1
171648ba2462SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
171748ba2462SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1718106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1719106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1720106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1721106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1722106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1723ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1724ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1725ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1726ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1727ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1728106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1729106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1730106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1731106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1732106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1733106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1734ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1735d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1736d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1737d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1738d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1739d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1740d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1741d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1742d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1743d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1744d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1745d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1746ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1747ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1748ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1749ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1750ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1751ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1760ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1761ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1762ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1763ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1764ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1765ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1768ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1770ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1771ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1772ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1773ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1774ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1775ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1776ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1777ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
177822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
177922753674SMichal Marek	string
178022753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
178122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
178222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
178322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
178422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
178522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
178622753674SMichal Marek
17870b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
17880b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
178998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
179098a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
179198a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
17925f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
17935f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
179498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
179598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1796692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
179798a79d6aSRusty Russell
17981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
18043a65dfe8SJens Axboe
18053a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1806e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1807e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1808e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1809e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
181016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
181116295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
181216295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
181316295becSSteffen Klassert
1814754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1815754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1816754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings
1817754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA
1818754b7b63SAndi Kleen	bool
1819754b7b63SAndi Kleen
18204520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
18214520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
18224520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
18234520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
18244520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
18254520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
18264520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
18274520c6a4SDavid Howells
18286beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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