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" 1829