180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 4984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 5084336466SRoland McGrath help 5184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 5284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 5384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 5484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 5584336466SRoland McGrath 564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 574bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 584bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 594bb16672SJiri Slaby help 604bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 614bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 624bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 634bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 644bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 654bb16672SJiri Slaby 664bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 674bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 694bb16672SJiri Slaby 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1103ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1113ebe1243SLasse Collin 1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2139361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov to directly read from or write to to another process's address space. 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 274990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 275990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 277990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 278990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 28669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 28869369a70SJosh Triplett default y 28969369a70SJosh Triplett help 29069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 29169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29569369a70SJosh Triplett 2961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 298804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3067a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3077a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3107a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 31567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 317939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 318939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 319939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 32674c3cbe3SAl Viro 327d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 334abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerendchoice 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 42119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 43419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 465c903ff83SMike Travis 466c903ff83SMike Travischoice 467c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 46831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 469c903ff83SMike Travis 470c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 471c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 472687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 473016a8d5bSSteven Rostedt select IRQ_WORK 474c903ff83SMike Travis help 475c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 477c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 478c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 479c903ff83SMike Travis 480f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 481a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4829fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 48353614714SJames Hogan select IRQ_WORK 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 485f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 486f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 488bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 489bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4919fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4929fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4958008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 5009b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 502c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 503c903ff83SMike Travis 504a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 505127781d1SPaul E. McKenney def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 506a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 507a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 508a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 509a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 5106bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 5116bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5126bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5136bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5146bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5156bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5166bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5176bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 51891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 51991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 52091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 5212b1d5024SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig RCU_USER_QS 5222b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 52391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 52491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 5252b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 5262b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 5272b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 5282b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 5292b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 530af71befaSPaul Gortmaker try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 5312b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 532d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 53391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 534af71befaSPaul Gortmaker adds unnecessary overhead. 535d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 536d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure say N 537d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 53891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 53991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 54091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 541d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5421fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 543d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 544d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 545d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 546d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 547d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 548d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 549d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 550d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 551d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 553d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 55899c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 564d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 565c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 566c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 567c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 568c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 569f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 570c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 571c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 572c903ff83SMike Travis help 573c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 574c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5754d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5764d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5774d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5784d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5794d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5804d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 581c903ff83SMike Travis 582c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 583c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 584c903ff83SMike Travis 5858932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5868932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5878932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 5888932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 5898932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 5908932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 5918932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 5928932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 5938932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 5948932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 5958932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 5988932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 5998932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6008932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 612c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 613c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 614f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 615c903ff83SMike Travis default n 616c903ff83SMike Travis help 617c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 618c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 619c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 620c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 621c903ff83SMike Travis 622c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 623c903ff83SMike Travis 624c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 625c903ff83SMike Travis 6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 6283451d024SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 6298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 631c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 632c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 633c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 634c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 635c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 636c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 637c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 639c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 640c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 644c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 645f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 646c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 647c903ff83SMike Travis help 648f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 649f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 650f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 651c903ff83SMike Travis 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 65427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 65924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 66324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 66424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 66624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 66724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 66824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 67024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 671c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 672c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 673c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 674c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 675c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 676c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 677c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 680c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 682c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 683c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 684c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 685c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 686c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 687c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 688c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 689c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 69824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 69924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 70024278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 70124278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 70324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 70524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7079a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 7083fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 7093fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7113fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7123fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7133fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 718a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 719a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 720a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 721a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 722a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 723a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 724a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7253fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 72634ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7273fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7283fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 729911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 730911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 732911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 733676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 734676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 737911af505SPaul E. McKenney 738911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 739911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 74073c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 744676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 751911af505SPaul E. McKenney 752911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 753911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 75473c30828SFrederic Weisbecker depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 762911af505SPaul E. McKenney 763911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney 767911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 769911af505SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 771911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 773676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 775676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 776676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 777676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 778911af505SPaul E. McKenney 779911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 780911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 781911af505SPaul E. McKenney 782911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 783911af505SPaul E. McKenney 784c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 785c903ff83SMike Travis 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 787f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 805794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 806794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 807794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 808f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 809794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 810794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 811f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 812f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 813f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 814f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 815f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 816794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 817794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 818794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 835be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 836be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 837be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 838be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 839be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 840be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 842be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 843be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 844be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 845be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 846be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 847be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 848be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 849be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 852be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 853be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli default y 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on NUMA_BALANCING 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8581a687c2eSMel Gormanconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8591a687c2eSMel Gorman bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8601a687c2eSMel Gorman default y 8611a687c2eSMel Gorman depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8621a687c2eSMel Gorman help 8636d56a410SPaul Gortmaker If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8641a687c2eSMel Gorman machine. 8651a687c2eSMel Gorman 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8746d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 87823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 87923964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 8802bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 881ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 88223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 8865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 88745ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 88845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 889ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 890ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 891ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 89223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 89323964d2dSLi Zefan 894006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 895006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 896418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 897006cb992SPaul Menage help 898006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 899006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 90023964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 901006cb992SPaul Menage 90223964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 903006cb992SPaul Menage 904dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 90523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 906dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 907dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 908dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 909dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 91008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 91108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 91208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 91308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 91408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 91508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 9161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 919d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 92623964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 92723964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 92823964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 92923964d2dSLi Zefan default y 93023964d2dSLi Zefan 931d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 932d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 933d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 934d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 93523964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 936d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 937e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 938e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 939e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 940e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 94123964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 942e552b661SPavel Emelianov 943c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 94400f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 94579ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 94679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 94700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 94884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 94921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 95000f0b825SBalbir Singh 95100f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 95284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 953f60e2a96SSergey Dyasly 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 95484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 95584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 95600f0b825SBalbir Singh 95700f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 95884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 95984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 96084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 961c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 96200f0b825SBalbir Singh 963c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 96465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 965c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 966c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 967c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 968c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 969c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 970c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 971c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 972c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 973c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 974c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 975c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 976c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 97700a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 978627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 979627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 980c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 981a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 982c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 983a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 984a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 985a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 986a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 98743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 98807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 989a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 990a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 991a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 99200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 993c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_KMEM 99419c92399SKees Cook bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 99519c92399SKees Cook depends on MEMCG 996510fc4e1SGlauber Costa depends on SLUB || SLAB 997e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 998e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 999e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 1000e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 1001e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 1002e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 1003e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 1004c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10052ee06468SVladimir Davydov WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means 10062ee06468SVladimir Davydov allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there 10072ee06468SVladimir Davydov are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option 10082ee06468SVladimir Davydov unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development 10092ee06468SVladimir Davydov purposes. 10102ee06468SVladimir Davydov 10112bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10122bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 101319c92399SKees Cook depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 10142bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 10152bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V help 10162bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 10172bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10182bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10192bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10202bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10212bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10222bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10232bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 10252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 1026e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 1027e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1028e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1029e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 1030e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 10312d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1032e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 1033e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 1034e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 1035e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10367c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 10377c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 10387c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10397c941438SDhaval Giani help 10407c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10417c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10427c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10437c941438SDhaval Giani 10447c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10457c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10467c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10477c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10487c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10497c941438SDhaval Giani 1050ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1051ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1052ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1053ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1054ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1055ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1056ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1057ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1058ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1059ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1060ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10617c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10627c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10637c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10647c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10657c941438SDhaval Giani help 10667c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 106732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10687c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10697c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10707c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10717c941438SDhaval Giani 10727c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10737c941438SDhaval Giani 1074afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 107532e380aeSTejun Heo bool "Block IO controller" 107679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 1077afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1078afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1079afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1080afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1081afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 1082afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1084afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1085e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1086e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1087afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1088afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1089e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 109079e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 109179e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1092c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1093afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1094afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1095afc24d49SVivek Goyal 1096afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1097afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1098afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 1099afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 1100afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 1101afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1102afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1103afc24d49SVivek Goyal 110423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1105c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1106067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1107067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1108067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1109067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1110067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1111067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1112067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1113067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1114067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1115067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1116067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11196a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1120c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1121c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1122c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1123c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1124c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1125c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 112858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 112958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 113017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 113158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 113258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 113358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 113458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1135ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1136ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11378dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 113817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1139ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1140ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1141614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1142ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1143aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 114419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11455673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1146aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1147aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1148aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1149e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1150e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1151e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1152e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1153e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1154e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman use. 1155e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1156aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1157aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 115874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11599bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 116017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 116174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 116212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1163692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 116474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 116574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1166d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1167d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 116917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1170d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1171d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1172d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1173d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11765091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11775091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11785091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11795091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11805091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11815091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11825091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11835091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11845091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11855091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11865091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11875091faa4SMike Galbraith 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11895d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12125d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1237f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1238f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1239f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1240f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1241f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1242f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1243f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1244f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1245f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1246f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1247f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1248f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1249f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1250f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1251f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1252f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1253c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1254c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1255dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1256dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1257c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1258c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1259c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 126096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1261c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1262c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1263c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 1264c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12653a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1266c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12670847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12680847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12690847062aSRandy Dunlap 1270b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1271b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1272b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1273657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger 1276657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1280657a5209SMike Frysinger 1281657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1283657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1291657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1293657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1294657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger 1296657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger 12996a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1301f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1302f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1309ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1311af1839ebSCatalin Marinas depends on HAVE_UID16 1312ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1313ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1314ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1315ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1316*f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1317*f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1318*f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1319*f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1320*f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1321*f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1322*f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1323*f6187769SFabian Frederick 1324*f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1325*f6187769SFabian Frederick 13266af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13286af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1336b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 133826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1339c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1340b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1341b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 134213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 134313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 134413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 134513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1346b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 134713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 134813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 134913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1350b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1351c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1352ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 13546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 136571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 136671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 136771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 136871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 136971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 137171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 137271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 137371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 137471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 137671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1377d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1378d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1379d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 138174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1382d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1383d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1384d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1385d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1386d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1387d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1388d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1389c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1391c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1392c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1393c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1394c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1395c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1396c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1397c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1398c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1399708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1400046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1401708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1403708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1404708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1405708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14068761f1abSRalf Baechle 1407e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14098761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 141015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1411e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1412e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1413e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1414e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1415e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 142723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 143303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 143403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 143503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 143603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 143703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 143803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 143903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1443448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1448fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1450448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1451fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1452fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1453fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1454fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1455fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1456fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1457fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1458b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1460448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1461b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1462b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1463b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1464b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1465b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1466b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1467b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1468e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1470448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1471e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1472e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1473e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1474e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1475e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1476e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1477e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1489ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1491ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1492ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1493ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1494ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1495ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1496ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1497657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1498657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1499657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1500657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1501657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1502657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1503657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1504657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1505657a5209SMike Frysinger 15066befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15085d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15136befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15146befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1515cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1517018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1518018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1520906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1521906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1522906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1523906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1524906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 152557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1527cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 152857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1529392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1530cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15314c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1532e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 15330793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 153457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 153557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15360793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1537dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 153857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 153957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 154057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 154157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15420793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15430793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15440793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15450793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15460793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 154857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1549dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 155057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15510793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15520793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15540793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1556906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1557906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1558906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1559906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1560906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1561906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1562906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1563906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1564906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1565906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1566906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1567906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1568906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15690793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15700793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1571f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1572f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1574f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15752aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15762aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15776a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15782aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1579f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 158041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 158141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1583f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 158441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 158541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 158641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 158741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 158841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 158941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1590b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1591b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1592b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1593b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1594b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1595b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1596b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1597692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1598b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1599b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1600b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1601b943c460SRandy Dunlap 160281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 160381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1604a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 160581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 160681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 160781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 160981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 161081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 161181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 161234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 161302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 161481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 161581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 161681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 161781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 161881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 161981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 162081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 162181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 162202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 162302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 162481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 162581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 162781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 162881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 162937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 163037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 163137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 163281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 163381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 163481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1635345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1636345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1637b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1638345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1639345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1640345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1641345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1642345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1643345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1644345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1645345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1646ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1647ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16486a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1649ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1650ea637639SJie Zhang help 1651ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1652ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1653ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1654ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1655ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1656ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1657ea637639SJie Zhang 1658ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1659ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1660ea637639SJie Zhang 1661ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1662ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1663ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1664ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1665ea637639SJie Zhang 1666ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1667ea637639SJie Zhang 166882c04ff8SPeter Foleyconfig SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 166982c04ff8SPeter Foley bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 167082c04ff8SPeter Foley depends on KEYS 167182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 167282c04ff8SPeter Foley Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 167382c04ff8SPeter Foley the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 167482c04ff8SPeter Foley by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 167582c04ff8SPeter Foley userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 167682c04ff8SPeter Foley keys already in the keyring. 167782c04ff8SPeter Foley 167882c04ff8SPeter Foley Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 167982c04ff8SPeter Foley 1680125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1681b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1682125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1683125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1684125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1685125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16865f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16875f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16885f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16895f87f112SIngo Molnar# 169097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16915f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 169297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1693fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1694fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1697ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1698ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1699ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1700ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1701158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1702158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1703158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 17040f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1705158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1706158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1707ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1708ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1709ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 171711097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17360b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17370b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1738826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1739826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1740826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1741826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 174291e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 174391e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 174491e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1745826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1751f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1752f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 175619c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17650d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1785106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1786106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1787106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1788b56e5a17SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 178948ba2462SDavid Howells select KEYS 179048ba2462SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 179148ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 179248ba2462SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 179348ba2462SDavid Howells select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 179448ba2462SDavid Howells select ASN1 179548ba2462SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 179648ba2462SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1797106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1798106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1799106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1800106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1801106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1807106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1808106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1809106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1810106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1811106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1812106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1813ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1814d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1815d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1816d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1817d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1818d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1819d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1820d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1821d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1822d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1823d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1824d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1825ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1826ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1827ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1828ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1829ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1830ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1831ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1832ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1833ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1834ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1835ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1836ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1837ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1838ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1839ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1840ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1841ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1842ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1843ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1844ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1845ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1846ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1847ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1848ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1849ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1850ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1851ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1852ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1853ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1854ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1855ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1856ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 185722753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 185822753674SMichal Marek string 185922753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 186022753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 186122753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 186222753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 186322753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 186422753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 186522753674SMichal Marek 18660b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18670b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 186898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 186998a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 187098a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18715f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18725f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 187398a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 187498a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1875692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 187698a79d6aSRusty Russell 18771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 18833a65dfe8SJens Axboe 18843a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1885e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1886e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1887e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1888e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 188916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 189016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 189116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 189216295becSSteffen Klassert 1893754b7b63SAndi Kleen# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1894754b7b63SAndi Kleen# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1895754b7b63SAndi Kleen# mappings 1896754b7b63SAndi Kleenconfig BROKEN_RODATA 1897754b7b63SAndi Kleen bool 1898754b7b63SAndi Kleen 18994520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19004520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19014520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19024520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19034520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19044520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19054520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19064520c6a4SDavid Howells 19076beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1908