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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
29ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
41dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
42dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
4534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
4984336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
5084336466SRoland McGrath	help
5184336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
5284336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
5384336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
5484336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
5584336466SRoland McGrath
564bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
574bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
584bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
594bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
604bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
614bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
624bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
634bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
644bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
654bb16672SJiri Slaby
664bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
694bb16672SJiri Slaby
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
80aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
83aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1093ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1103ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1113ebe1243SLasse Collin
1127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
115e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
117e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1212d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1457dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1610a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1653ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1663ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1673ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1683ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1753ebe1243SLasse Collin
1763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1773ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1793ebe1243SLasse Collin
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2139361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
236a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
24419c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
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